The project Riders by the FFF alumnus Dominik Mencej from Slovenia has been awarded €30,000 at the last competition for Development of a Single Project from Creative Europe\’s MEDIA Sub-programme. It is one of 77 projects, out of 395 eligible applications, to receive the funding. Co-written by Mencej and Serbian screenwriter Boris Grgurović, Riders is a road …
Florenc Papas has started shooting his first feature film Open Door, developed through FFF, last week on the outskirts of Tirana. This is the second FFF project from the first generation to go into production. Nikos Labot\’s Her Job finished principal photography back in June. Open Door is set in the patriarchal Albanian society, the …
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FIRST FILMS FIRST program manager Stefan Arsenijević will attend BALKAN FILM MARKET and take part in the panel FUTURE BALKAN – educational opportunities on Wednesday October 4th at 16:30. If you are interested in FIRST FILMS FIRST program or MEET THE SCRIPTWRITERS platform and would like to meet to get to know more – schedule an individual meeting. Write to …
We are happy to announce that Maria Djurkovic, production designer of films including The Imitation Game, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Billy Elliot, to name just a few, will mentor the FFF workshop at the Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers Festival in Bitola (Sept 23-30), along with cinematographer Christian Berger. Djurkovic is a formidable talent whose …
\”THE IMITATION GAME\” PRODUCTION DESIGNER MARIA DJURKOVIC TO TUTOR FFF WORKSHOP Read More »
We are proud to announce that one of the greatest cinematographers working today, Christian Berger, 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 23-30). In addition to Haneke, Berger worked with such directors as …
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FIRST FILMS FIRST program manager Stefan Arsenijević and MEET THE SCRIPTWRITERS project coordinator Tina Šmalcelj will attend Sarajevo Film Festival from 14th till 17th of August. If you are interested in FIRST FILMS FIRST program or MEET THE SCRIPTWRITERS platform and wish to schedule an individual meeting, write to us at info@firstfilmsfirst.com . See you …
Two Greek projects in First Film First, produced by Argonauts Productions, have received funding from Creative Europe MEDIA programme Behind the Haystacks by Asimina Proedrou, a project that participated in the first edition of FFF, and Peter and the Wolf by Thanasis Neofotistos, which is taking part in the current, second edition of the training …
The first of the First Films First projects has finished principal photography: Nikos Labôt\’s Her Job The First Films First project Her Job by Nikos Labôt (hl: http://localhost:8888/nikos-labot/) finished shooting last week in Athens, and will soon go into post-production. The principal photography took 30 days in several Athens neighbourhoods, including Nikaia, Egaleo and Drapetsona, …
The second edition of FIRST FILMS FIRST has started within the framework of the Transylvania International Film Festival! Our new participants, wonderful talented directors Stefan Constantinescu (Romania), Mete Gümürhan (Turkey), Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović (Croatia), Thanasis Neofotistos (Greece), Christos Netsos (Albania), Darko Sinko (Slovenia), Ziya Demirel (Turkey) and Andreea Vălean (Romania) have started working on their …
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO AUGUST 1ST! WIN A TRIP TO INTERFILM FESTIVAL BERLIN! Meet the Scriptwriters and Interfilm Berlin are inviting you to apply with a short film project and win a trip to the 33rd Interfilm Berlin. If you are: – scriptwriter with short film script in development (live action / fiction / …
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