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Tampere 30th International SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 8.-12.3.2000
TAMPERE
FILM MARKET
Tampere Short and Documentary Film Market is aimed at the
professionals of the audiovisual field. It is primarily
a sales event with a full service structure.
The Film Market is part of the Tampere 30th International
Short Film Festival.
Market
services include an International
seminar (March 10) expert
services for production companies, producers,
distributors and film makers and a mini
workshop for tv-scriptwriters (March 9-10).
Tampere
Film Market is a specialized market with the
focus on Nordic, Eastern European and Baltic productions,
production companies, film makers, distributors and other
professionals. The purpose of the Market is
to support the distribution and market access of films.
Participation of the films is free.
VENUES
Tampere
Hall,
Yliopistonkatu 55 (same as the Festival center):
Market service unit, MEDIA booth, stands, individual video
units, tv-script workshop, expert services, market screenings.
Culture
Center TELAKKA, Tullikamarinaukio 3: Market screenings
and NON-STOP screenings from the focus countries (all
films max 10 minutes), market screenings (35mm) at the
TELAKKA restaurant - open for all.
BUYERS AND DISTRIBUTORS! Look at this!
More
than 2000 films from ca 60 countries including:
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a great variety of Nordic and Eastern European
(short and documentary) film productions
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15 video units
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market screenings
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NON-STOP screenings from the focus countries
(all films max 10 minutes!)
TERMS OF PARTICIPATION for the market
FILMS
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short and medium-length fictions (max 60 minutes)
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all animation and documentary films
- deadline
January 7, 2000
The
productions have to be new (made 1998 or after).
NOTICE! All productions sent to the Tampere Film Festival's
competition will automatically be in the Film Market
selection. BUT send us films just for the market!
Partners (among others):
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Russian Asifa - Russian Animation Association
- Short
Film Agency "Metr", Russia
- VGIK
(All Russian Institute of Cinematography)
- Goskino
(The State Committee of the Russian Federation for Cinematography)
- St.
Petersburg Documentary Film Studio
- Latvian
National Film Center - F-Seitse (Estonia)
- Lietuvos
Kino Studja (Lithuania)
- Filmkontakt
Nord
- Swedish
Film Institute & Film I Väst
- Norwegian
Filminstitute
- Danish
Film Institute, Baltic Media Center & Statens Filmcentral
- The
Finnish Film Foundation, YLE Export, the Finnish Film
Contact, Finnish Media Schools
Special
partners of the Film Market
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Cape Town International Film Festival
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Murphy’s Cork Film Festival, The Irish Film Board, Northern
Ireland Film Commission
- The
Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Film Commission
- The
Irish Film Archive
FILMS
- more than 2000 films on VHS tapes from ca 60 countries
- video on demand / 15 individual video units for buyers
and distributors
- market catalogue (well indexed); productions, screenings,
organisations etc.
- market screenings;
1) Hall B -Tampere Hall; (beta & VHS,
100 seats) - free of charge
2) Studio; (beta, 16mm, 35mm, 170 seats)
- FIM 5500/EUR 925; 90 minutes
3) NON-STOP screenings of focus country
SHORTS - TELAKKA Culture Center (free of charge)
4) TELAKKA, restaurant; (35mm, 120 seats)
- open for all
SCREENINGS
among others:
- Scandinavian Highlights
- Best Russian Documentaries
- Best Baltic Documentaries
- NON-STOP screenings of focus country productions (all
films max 10 minutes!)
- Best Finnish student films
Extra screenings:
- Latest
South-African shorts & documentaries
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Irish shorts & documentaries
STANDS
- 15 stands
- focus country umbrella organisations - free of charge
- others FIM 2440/EUR 410 (five days)- booking in advance!
- facilities: video & monitor (table, chairs, shelves)
- telephone line and internet access (five days: FIM 160/EUR
27, FIM 800/ EUR 135)
OTHER
SERVICES - bookings and information at the service
unit - free of charge!
- negotiation rooms (videos, secretarial service etc.)
- interpretation (English, Russian, French, Spanish)
- secretarial services, arrangements for meetings, bookings
etc.
- consultation and expert services
EU
MEDIA PROGRAMME - MEDIA BOOTH
(Tampere Hall; main hall)
- MEDIA Desk Finland: information, consultation - free
of charge
- MEDIA experts: workshop for tv-scriptwriters FIM 450/EUR
75
March 10, 2000; 9.00-17.00
at Culture Center TELAKKA - 3.rd floor
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- 9.15 |
Opening
of the seminar: Festival Director Pertti Paltila; Tampere
Film Festival |
| 9.15
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MEDIA+:
European Commission proposal on the implementation of
MEDIA Plus Programme: National Consultation with the
industry: Strategy planning officer Virve Indrén;
Ministry of Education, Finland and Kerstin Degerman;
MEDIA Desk Finland |
| 11.45
- 12.45 |
Lunch
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| 12.45
- 13.45 |
Production
consultancy Louise Martin: Film i Väst, Sweden |
| 13.45
- 14.00 |
Coffee |
| 14.00
- 15.00 |
Project
experiences from post- socialistic Czechland: Animator
Katariina Lillqvist; Camera Cagliostro, Finland |
| 15.00
- 16.00 |
The
ways for producing and distributing Shorts in Russia:
Managing Director Anna Pendrakovskaya-Nazarova;
Short Film Agency "Metr", Russia |
| 16.00-
17.00 |
Discussion
and questions: Chairperson |
| 20.00
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Evening
event; Culture Center TELAKKA, 2.nd floor.
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NOTICE!
You are also wellcome
to PILOTS lecture on Thursday March 9:10-12.30
Advanced TV Writing Techniques; Mr. Guy Meredith
(UK): Tampere Hall/VIP: 3.rd floor
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MINI WORKSHOP for scriptwriters - jointly organised
by PILOTS, a MEDIA programme of the European
Union and subsidised by MEDIA II, and the MEDIA Desk,
Finland.
March 9-10, 2000 (Cost: FIM 450 /EUR 75 - per
project)
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PILOTS is the most successful training programme for
scriptwriters within MEDIA II and benefits from the
expertise of top European and American specialists.
The experts/tutors at the Tampere workshop will be:
Guy Meredith (UK), PILOTS' Head of Studies and Charlotte
Lesche (Sweden).
Eligible
projects: Long running series, situation comedies,
mini-series, TV movies, animation and interactive
projects. Project descriptions - 3 to 10 pages
in English - are sent to the tutors IN ADVANCE. Minimum
information necessary: description of the idea, summary
of story and characters (or sample stories in the
case of a series) and the programme's target audience.
Contents:. Thursday
March 9:10-12.30; Advanced TV Writing Techniques;
Mr. Guy Meredith (UK): Tampere Hall/VIP:
3.rd floor. During the course of Thursday afternoon
and all day Friday (March 9 and 10) each team will
have a 2-hour script analysis session with one of
the tutors. Number of teams: 8-10. Application
deadline: January 31, 2000.
Contact
PILOTS (Ita Roberts) or the MEDIA Desk Finland (Kerstin
Degerman) for a registration form. Payments to
Tampere Film Market - Bank account: MERITA BANK LTD
- FINLAND: 114630-1033445 The first teams to apply
and to pay will be selected.
Address: Pilots; Pau Claris 115, 5è, 4ª, E-08009
Barcelona SPAIN - tel.+34-93-487 37 73 - fax. +34-93-487
39 52 - email: PILOTS@intercom.es - web address:http//www.acpilots.com
The workshop will be organised in cooperation with
MEDIA Desk, Finland.
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Expert Services for
counselling - free of charge |
Consultation
by experts: MEDIA Programme experts and other market
experts will be available for counselling during the market.
Book for a meeting time at the market's service unit (Tampere
Hall).
- Market
films: film information and cassettes - Jan.7, 2000
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Market screenings: Feb. 11, 2000 - mark your cassettes
'FILM MARKET' (Tampere Hall, TELAKKA)
- Seminar:
Feb. 25, 2000
- PILOTS
Workshop for scriptwriters: Jan. 31, 2000 at PILOTS!
- project descriptions will be sent directly to PILOTS
for analysis!
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Business plan -doctoring - predevelopped plans
to the festival office: Feb. 4, 2000
Film
Market office: tel: +358-3-213 0034
Leeni Terkko: mobile: +358-40-570 8870
Merja Vedenjuoksu: tel: +358-3-223 5015
Marianna Nurmi: fax: +358-3-223 0121
e-mail: filmmarket@tamperefilmfestival.fi
Internet: http://www.tamperefilmfestival.fi/
Mailing address: Box 305, 33101 TAMPERE Finland
Street address: Tullikamarinaukio 2, 33100 TAMPERE
Finland
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