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We are thrilled to announce that one of the best European production designers working today, Christoph Kanter, best known for his collaborations with Michael Haneke, will be one of the tutors at the FFF workshop at the Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers’ Film Festival in Bitola (Sept 22-29). Christoph Kanter originally studied Architecture at the Technical …

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  We are extremely excited and proud to announce that the 1st FIRST FILMS FIRST produced project, Nicos Labot’s HER JOB will have a world premiere in Toronto IFF! The film will be screened in TFF’s Discovery programme that was a starting point to many now famous directors, such as Christopher Nolan (Following), Steve McQueen …

LABOT\’S \”HER JOB\” TO PREMIERE IN TORONTO! Read More »

We are proud to announce that FIRST FILMS FIRST’s projects RIDERS by Dominik Mencej and INVENTORY by Darko Sinko have been awarded support for production by RTV Slovenia. The RIDERS, produced by Miha Černec’s STARA GARA was granted 120,000,00 € and INVENTORY, produced by Vlade Bulajic’s DECEMBER 270,000.00 €. Both projects will start shooting in …

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FFF’s Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović has received funding for production of MURINA in her home country Croatia. MURINA received € 404,251 (HRK 3,000,000) from Croatian Audiovisual Centre. Croatian producer is Zdenka Gold’s Spiritus movens. In May Martin Scorsese joined the project as co-producer with his US company Sikelia Prods. MURINA will start shooting in Croatia in summer …

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[vc_row row_type=\”row\” use_row_as_full_screen_section=\”no\” type=\”full_width\” angled_section=\”no\” text_align=\”left\” background_image_as_pattern=\”without_pattern\” css_animation=\”\”][vc_column][vc_column_text] FFF alumna Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović\’s Murina will be co-produced by the US company Sikelia Prods., run by Martin Scorsese, Variety reports. Together with Rodrigo Teixeira’s RT Features, Sikelia Prods. will co-produce and finance two feature debuts: Murina and Port Authority by the US filmmaker Danielle Lessovitz. “We created …

MARTIN SCORSESE TO PRODUCE ANTONETA ALAMAT KUSIJANOVIĆ\’S MURINA Read More »

  FFF alumnus Florenc Papas\’ film OPEN DOOR, which is near completion, will be presented to sales agents, distributors and programmers at the Cannes Film Festival\’s Marché du Film. It is a part of the second edition of Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes, a collaboration of Thessaloniki Film Festival\’s industry section Agora, the Greek Film Center, …

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The final module of the second generation of First Films First took place last week at Sofia Meetings. At the Sofia Meetings awards ceremony, our participants received two prizes. The GoEast Award for the best pitch in the FFF selection went to Christos Netsos and his project DAJNA . The prize was presented by Andrea …

Christos Netsos and Andreea Vălean win awards at Sofia Meetings Read More »