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The Northern Wave International Short Film Festival in collaboration with Girls Shoot in Iceland is organising a workshop for young female filmmakers(<30) from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, The Faroe… More Island. The Nordic Girls Shoot Workshop will take place from the 24th to the 25th of October 2019 and from the 25th to the 27th of October participants will attend and be presented at the Northern Wave Film Festival. The program pays for flights and accommodation for all selected participants during the workshop and the festival. The workshop will take place in the beautiful fishing village of Grundarfjörður on the West coast of Iceland. To qualify to apply, applicants have to be under 30 years of age and identify as female. The workshop is targeted towards young women who are taking their first steps into the film industry and would like to or are specializing in either directing, script writing or cinematography. Deadline for submissions: 10th of May 2019.

Today B2B Doc has run a webinar on pre-production of docs. 20 filmmakers participated. The webinar was moderated by Anya Belyaeva. The tutors were Malcolm Dixelius and Anastasia Kirillova. A lot of practical… More issues have been discussed and questions answered. It was the first webinar in the series of three. Two more - on production and post-production - will be arranged during May and June. Stay tuned and join us then as well!

Open City Documentary Festival in London has launched a new documentary development lab and fund called Assembly. Assembly is a £10,000 development lab for international filmmakers working on their first or… More second feature. Its free to apply and open to applicants anywhere in the world. The organizers will pay for participants to attend the lab and festival in September. Food is provided, and hopefully also a per diem. The deadline to apply is next week, May 3rd.

Dear fellow filmmakers, between the 22-24th of may, B2B DOC is organising a workshop in Chisinau, Moldova in collaboration with the International Documentary Film Festival CRONOGRAF. The workshop is aimed at… More female filmmakers, artists and activists. Besides theory, film analysis, there will also be the practical side - making a short film. The working language will be english. Tutors: swedish filmmakers Karin Ekberg and Johanna Bernhardson Participation is free of charge. If youre interested or have some friends/ girlfriends/ acquintances that might be interested, share away :)

Webinar on pre-production. The first one in the series of three webinars for the documentary filmmakers, arranged by B2B Doc. Tomorrow, April 25, at: 11:00 CET (Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Warsaw,… More Prague, Berlin); 12:00 EET (Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Minsk, Kyiv, Chisinau, Moscow); 13:00 (Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku) Join us online. More info at the event link.

Mikael Opstrup in his interview: - The documentary environment in Europe is very well organized; - The development of film technology has changed the film production process; - The amount of money for film… More production has been shrinking during the last two decades; - A lot of personal stories are coming to the film market, where the film director is a part of the story; - The bigger themes in politics always make their way to documentaries.

Great news from the goEast Film Festival. After the yesterday’s pitching the jury has made the following decisions: - Renovabis Research Award goes to Alexander Mihalkovich’s project Mothers’ Crusades; - goEast Development Award goes to Ksenia Ksiu Malikova Ciuvaseva’s project Landing. Congratulations!

Do you have a feature length documentary project in development or early production? Apply for Ex Oriente Film! The deadline is 🔜👉 APRIL 19 👈️ Details: http://bit.ly/ex-oriente-film-2019-open-call>> Ex Oriente Film 2019 Guidelines <<>> online application form <<

EDN Congratulates! Were delighted to announce that five documentary projects & films, co-developed at EDN workshops, have received important recognition through awards, funding and selections for key industry… More events. #EDNcongratulates is a series of news stories where we congratulate project teams from EDN workshops when they have achieved great results. The recognized films/projects are: "Cinema Under Siege" by Anne Barliannt, "Terra Franca" by Leonor Teles, "Hope Frozen" by Pailin Wedel, "Queen of the Deuce" by Valerie Kontakos and "The Wind. A Documentary Thriller" by Michal Bielawski. Visit https://bit.ly/2DaDlvr for more information.

Selected works will receive a budget up to €10,000 to realize a non-fiction artwork to be experienced by the Idfa audience in Amsterdam in November 2019. The application deadline is Monday, April 22.

Submit your 2019 productions by 15 April and mark your calendar for Nordisk Panorama in Malmö, Sweden 19-24 September 2019. Submission for Festival Competitions: - Films completed in 2018: 15 February - Films… More completed in 2019: 15 April Submission for Market: Films completed in 2018: 15 April Films completed in 2019: 1 August To be eligible for the festival and market, the film must: - qualify as an independent production - qualify as a Nordic production or be directed by a Nordic director - be completed within the current or preceding year - be subtitled in English or English versioned Documentaries are accepted in any length and short films include all forms of animation, fiction and experimental films of up to 60 minutes.

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Every B2B Docs Producers meet Producers event ends up with a networking party, where filmmakers can evaluate the working day in an informal atmosphere.

Stay updated with our #DOCalendar deadlines for April 2019! Once a month, we provide a list of upcoming deadlines for doc industry events based on our DOCalendar, a free online tool containing a vast collection… More of information about key industry activities. The April edition includes deadlines for IDFA Bertha Fund - Europe International Co-Production, Sørfund/Film fra Sør, Nordisk Panorama Market, Doc Market/Doc Fest Ireland, Sunny Side of the Doc and more in our DOCalendar. Visit https://bit.ly/2TwNzLY for more details!