As film, television and digital games projects spring back from the global COVID hiatus, the Victorian Budget 2021/22 will provide a record $120.7 million for an ambitious strategy to supercharge Victoria’s $2.2 billion screen industry; growing jobs, strengthening screen businesses and bringing local content to screens worldwide.
Isy and Leigh Anderson are a couple who work together in Manchester under the name ‘Photography by Anderson’. The award-winning duo recently produced two short films about homelessness charity Emmaus in Salford, a project born out of the peculiar circumstances we all found ourselves in Spring last year.
A creative talent survey on production trends by Genero.
Acknowledging the disproportionate effects the pandemic and racial terror have had on storytellers of color and other systematically marginalized groups, Sundance Institute’s goal is to provide financial support at key moments in an artist’s career by supporting their personal livelihoods and creative projects. Sundance Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the Uprise Grant Fund.
Visible despite the pandemic: artspring berlin is planning various hybrid forms of presentation for art and culture in the borough of Pankow during May.
BRIC will host a virtual Global Talent + Innovation Day on March 6th, free to the public, and packed with live and on-demand keynotes, panel and salon sessions, case studies, skills training, and creator spotlights from the world’s most iconic entertainment brands. Get ready to break, reinvent, impact and change how we engage with talent in the entertainment, tech & media spaces.
When was the last time you hugged someone? For the Goethe-Institut’s online video project “Museum of Embraces and Encounters”, artists from all over the world talk about moments of meeting and intimacy, but also of an encounter with a criminal. A collection of stories about embraces: as an expression of close encounters, but also as a symbol of reconciliation, of overcoming opposites. The stories are told by artists from all parts of the world.
Produced by Trinity CineAsia, Filming East Festival, and UK-China Film Collab, the Chinese Cinema Season is an online film screening event lasting for three months. It is the first and biggest online screening specialising in Chinese language films in the UK and Ireland that aims to enrich UK lockdown and present Chinese culture in a fresh way.
A film industries masterclass featuring Hiu Man Chan (UK-China Film Collab) hosted by Oxford Brooks University. This masterclass will use a recent online film festival, Chinese Cinema Season, as a case study, to explore opportunities, issues and challenges in digital film distribution during COVID-19, in particular, when it comes to foreign language films in the UK and Europe.
EIF supports REinvent Finance to make new financing available to Nordic film and TV series production companies, backed by the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility (CCS GF) and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).
The lockdown has seen dramatic growth for on-demand services. This has occurred in multiple media including games, live video and TV, as this paper from Nesta and PEC researchers Raphael Leung and John Davies reports.
A film industry masterclass featuring Timo Suomi (AMP International) organised by Film & Media Department, School Of Arts, Oxford Brookes University.
This 75 minute session is aimed at everyone working the television industry, affected by the challenges of the pandemic. It will increase awareness and understanding around mental health, looking at where it comes from and factors that enhance resilience.
Within the framework of its new Creaconnections program, Transcultures, in partnership with the European Pepinieres of Creation, launched the No Lockdown Art – NoLA action to support the re-activitism of Belgian and international artists who initiated, during the period containment, interesting audio, video and multimedia projects.
This online module is for those working on film and TV productions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
ScreenSkills invites you to fill out this 10-minute survey to help them understand current skills, gaps and shortages, the impact of Covid-19 on working practices and what the industry will look like in the future.
Re-structuring, re-engineering and re-aligning the European film industry, a panel discussion as part of this year’s European Film Awards (EFAs).
“Crossing Borders in Times of Covid-19” will take people through the “false dawn” of summer 2020, placing people’s stories in context with the challenges that are faced today.
This new, corona-proof edition will take place in the form of a digital festival and has as baseline ‘CTRL ACT DELETE’, asking itself the following question: “How can the media and cultural sectors reinvent themselves today?”
The main results of the video conference of culture and audiovisual ministers that took place on December 1st, 2020.
Featuring panels and statues of Turma da Mônica, the exhibit illustrates how best to protect oneself from COVID-19.
The new Czech streaming service by the name of Dramox, presents some of the best theatre productions Czechia has to offer. In doing so, the platform aims to give back to the struggling industry, while providing Czech theatre goers with a much-needed fix, and maybe even bring over some new, younger fans.
The AFAC – Netflix Hardship Fund is an emergency relief fund that aims to support the film and TV community in Lebanon, primarily below-the-line crew, craftspeople, and freelancers who are facing economic hardship resulting from the disruption of normal life, halts in productions, and little to no opportunities in the industry.
A freeform discussion painting a doomsday scenario and its possible positive alternative – a vision-driven future for European film with, at its core, European co-productions and their visibility.
UNIC is collecting detailed information on the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on the cinema industry across the 38 territories it represents.
In light of the ongoing covid restrictions in Ireland, the webinar will have a look at how independent cinemas aligned with the Europa Cinema network are coping with interrupted schedules and reduced audience numbers.
40 years of FERA: What makes a European Filmmaker in 2020?
The new IRIS Plus report.
Springboard is a series of webinars by Creative Europe Desk Munich presenting European training opportunities for the audiovisual industry.
The EFF will reflect on the challenges and opportunities faced by the European audiovisual industry in the context triggered by Covid-19.
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