REPORT Participants
20th Vilnius international film festival International film industry event Meeting point – Vilnius REPORT PARTICIPANTS Over 300 guests attended industry event in 2015. 102 foreign guests represented 30 countries: Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnija and Her- zegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, G. Britain, USA. 202 participants were from a local film industry: producers, filmmakers, distributors, students. 23 festival programmers and film scouts looked for films from Baltic and former Soviet republics. Festi- vals, that were represented: Cottbus, Ankara, Directors Fortnight (Cannes), Rotterdam, Moscow, Tallinn, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Berlin, Sarajevo, Prague, Kiev, Odessa, Three Continents (France), Transylvania, San Sebastian, Golden Apricot (Armenia), Thesaloniki, Sofia, Lubeck, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Krakow. Sales agents from such companies as “Wide management”(France), “Alpha Violet” (France), “M-ap- peal” (Germany), “Fandango”(Italy), “Films Distribution”(France), Edge Enternainment” (Sweden), “Rus- Report” (Russia), “Sligshot films” (Italy), “Pluto films” (Germany). Representatives from film centers of Slovakia, Estonia and Latvia were also present. 13 Journalists from international media outlets such as “Screen International”, “Hollywood reporter”, “Film New Europe”, “Cineuropa”, “Vedomosti”, “Dazed and Confused”, “Sight and Sound” were pre- sent. OUTCOME: 16 Coming soon projects from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia were presented. 7 almost finished films were screened in the industry screenings. “Meeting point – Vilnius” Coming soon session helped producers to gain contacts and to present their films for the festival programmers and sales agents. After the 2014 “Meeting point – Vilnius”, films, shown in Vilnius, continued their festival circuit: “Cherry Tobaco” (Estonia) - Karlovy Vary IFF, Tallinn Black nights IFF.
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