The 10th anniversary of Baltic Event brings the seventh annual Co-Production Market to Tallinn from November 29 - December 2, 2012. The market features 12 projects from 9 countries. This market edition's focus country, Azerbaijan, brings a 13th promising project to Tallinn to round out the slate. Baltic Event takes place during the Black Nights Film Festival and in cooperation with Black Market.

Nordic neighbours Estonia and Finland are making quite strong showings in this edition of the market. Estonia's most successful auteur director-producer team Veiko Õunpuu and Katrin Kissa (Autumn Ball, The Temptation of St. Tony) pair once again on their next project, the optimistic anti-Western Free Range (Homeless Bob Production). With his previous films premiering in Venice and Sundance and winning numerous international awards, Õunpuu's next film is sure to continue this successful run. Revolver Film's Karin Reinberg-Shestakov will present promising, young director Liina Paakspuu's film Meat, another strong project from Estonia, which was developed in the EAVE workshop.

And Estonia's Northern neighbour, Finland, makes the strongest showing of all with three projects from renowned directors and successful producers. Acclaimed director Petri Kotwica's (Black Ice, Rat King from BE 2009 in post-production) previous film competed at the Berlinale. His next project, Fleeing Dreams, will be presented at the market by First Floor Production's Pauli Pentti. Finland is also represented by a historical drama/thriller Never Alone from filmmaker Klaus Härö, who has brought home awards from Shanghai, Montreal, Mar del Plata, Berlin and numerous other festivals. Top-tier producer Ilkka Matila of Matila Röhr Nordisk Oy will produce the film. And the third project from Finland is from BE long-time friend, producer Aleksi Bardy (Helsinki-filmi) who will present Jukka-Pekka Siili's project The Beacon at Baltic Event. Baltic Event market is also proud to present another Nordic project: Sweden's leading production company Sonet Film's project The Things You Cannot See, produced by Sandra Harms and directed by Maria Nygren.

Eastern European countries are also present in the project list. One of Ukraine's most successful producers, Olena Yershova (My Joy by Sergei Loznitsa, Cannes IFF 2010), will present her project Sense of Sex by director Maryna Gorbach. Russia is represented by director Oxana Bychkova's Land of Good Children, a family adventure film from producer Natalia Mokritskaya (New People Film Company) who was very successful with her last film Piter FM.

In 2011, Baltic Event also presents two projects from new territories. Producer Nariman Mammadov will present Leonardo's Corridor, the mysterious story about a corridor of mirrors and a boy named Elik that will surely capture the minds of Azerbaijani and Europeans alike. Georgia is represented by one of the country's most acclaimed directors, Levan Koguashvili, with his project Teacher in Love, a tragicomedy about modern Georgian society undergoing a difficult transitional period.

As always, the aim of Baltic Event is give a comprehensive overview of the regional film industry, and the anniversary edition will be no different. The event includes Coming Soon presentations, Baltic Event screenings of recently completed films from the region, an Industry Day focusing on topics of interest to the local film industry, and the POWR script pitching workshop.


Baltic Event Co-Production Market 2011 project list:

1. „Fleeing Dreams" producer Pauli Pentti, First Floor Productions, Finland, director Petri Kotwica

2. „Free Range" producer Katrin Kissa, Homeless Bob Production, Estonia, director Veiko Õunpuu

3. „Godly Shift" producer Ferenc Pusztai, KMH Film, Hungary, director Márk Bodzsár

4. „Land of Good Children" producer Natalia Mokritskaya, New People Film Company, Russia, director Oxana Bychkova

5. „Meat" producer Karin Reinberg­-Shestakov, Revolver Film, Estonia, director Liina Paakspuu

6. „Never Alone" producer Ilkka Matila, Matila Röhr Nordisk Oy, Finland, director Klaus Härö

7. „Santa" producer Kestutis Drazdauskas, Artbox, Lithuania, director Marius Ivaskevicius

8. „Sense of Sex" producer Olena Yershova, Tatofilm, Ukraine, director Maryna Gorbach

9. „The Beacon" producer Aleksi Bardy, Helsinki-filmi, Finland, director Jukka-Pekka Siili

10. „The Redheads" producer Marta Bite, Ego Media, Latvia, director Astra Zoldnere

11. „The Things You Cannot See" producer Sandra Harms, Sonet Film, Sweden, director Maria Nygren

12. „Wednesday Child" producer Károly Fehér, Popfilm, Hungary, director Lili Horváth

13. „Leonardo's Corridor" producer Nariman Mammadov, Narimanfilm, Azerbaijan, director Ilgar Safat

14. „Teacher in Love" producer Levan Koguashvili, Ori Bu, Georgia, director Levan Koguashvili


POWR projects and scriptwriters:

1. „Do You Love Me", Lina Luzyte, Lithuania

2. „Life", Dovile Sarutyte, Lithuania

3. „Survivors", Hanna Bergholm, Finland

4. „Härregud", Vesa Heikki Virtanen, Finland

5. „The Boy from the Sea", Christjan Wegner, Sweden

6. „Thin Skin", Kristina Hjertén av Gedda, Sweden

7. „Landscape of Fear", Ulvrik Kraft, Norway

8. „Elvira and Sixten", Marianne Hansen, Denmark

9. „Angelmaker", Line Langebæk, Denmark

10. „Sanatorium of Ashes", Davis Simanis, Latvia

11. „Those That Remained Free", Pauls Bankovskis, Latvia

12. „The Desperate Mermaid", Edina Csüllög and Hedda Maurer, Estonia


Supporters and partners of Baltic Event are the Estonian Film Foundation, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, the Cultural Endowment, MEDIA Programme, the National Film Centre of Latvia, the Finnish Film Foundation, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Moscow Co-Production Forum, EAVE, Cannes Marche du Film's Producers' Network, Screen International, Cinelink, Film New Europe.


Additional information:

Lili Pilt,
Baltic Event co-production market manager
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Riina Sildos
Baltic Event general manager
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+372 50 48 985

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Eda Koppel
Baltic Event
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