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 marketing 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.

BUYERS AND DISTRIBUTORS! Look at this!
More than 2000 films from ca 60 countries including:
a great variety of film productions from Nordic and Eastern European countries plus best (and latest) European student shorts!
15 video units, market screenings, NON-STOP screenings from the focus countries (all films max. 10 minutes!)

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION for the market FILMS

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!

FOCUS COUNTRIES
Partners (among others):

• Russian Asifa - Russian Animation Association
  
• VGIK (All Russia State 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)
  
• Dakino Foundation (Romania)
  
• Bulgarian National Film Center
  
• Filmkontakt Nord
  
• Swedish Film Institute & Film I Väst
  
• Norwegian Film Institute
  
• 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
  

Market Services

FILMS

• more than 2000 films on VHS tapes from ca. 60 countries
  
• video on demand / 15 individual video units for buyers and distributors
  
• well indexed market catalogue: productions, screenings, organisations etc.
  
• market screenings:
  
  1. Hall B -Tampere Hall; (beta & VHS, 100 seats) - free of charge
  2. Studio -Tampere Hall; (beta, 16mm, 35mm, 170 seats) - EUR 925(FIM 5500) / 90 minutes
  3. TELAKKA Culture Center; NON-STOP screenings of focus country SHORTS - (free of charge)
  4. TELAKKA, restaurant; (35mm) - open for all

SCREENINGS include:

• Scandinavian Highlights
• Best Russian Documentaries
• Best Baltic Documentaries
• NON-STOP screenings of focus country productions (all films max. 10 minutes!)
• Best Finnish student films
• Best European student films

  Extra screenings:

• Latest South-African shorts & documentaries
• Irish shorts & documentaries

Business plan -doctoring: production companies, producers etc. - SEND YOUR predevelopped Business plan to our expert and book for a meeting during the market - deadline for pre-evaluation Feb. 4, 2000.

ARE YOU WILLING TO INVEST 4½ HOURS ON YOUR PROJECT?
MINI WORKSHOP for scriptwriters -March 9-10, 2000- jointly organised by PILOTS, a MEDIA programme of the European Union and subsidized by MEDIA II and the MEDIA Desk, Finland. Fee: EUR 75(FIM 450)/ per project.
   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 (PILOTS’ Head of Studies, UK) 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 - should be 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 morning a 2½ hours lecture by Guy Meredith: Advanced TV writing Techniques. During the course of Thursday afternoon and all day Friday (March 9 and 10) each team will have a two hours 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, swift code: MRITFIHH.
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.

DEADLINES

Market films: film information and cassettes - January 31, 2000- mark your cassettes ‘FILM MARKET’
Market screenings: February 11, 2000
Seminar: February 25, 2000
PILOTS Workshop for scriptwriters: January 31, 2000 at PILOTS! - project descriptions will be sent directly to PILOTS for analysis!
Business plan -doctoring - predevelopped plans to the festival office: February 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: tel: +358-3-223 5015
fax: +358-3-223 0121
e-mail: filmmarket@tamperefilmfestival.fi
Internet: http://www.tampere.fi/festival/film
Mailing address: Box 305, 33101 TAMPERE Finland
Street address: Tullikamarinaukio 2, 33100 TAMPERE Finland