- Works In Progress opens submissions.
- Music Meets Film announces first speaker.
- Script Pool winner gets TIFF gala screening.
- Project submission deadlines reminder.
- Accreditation discount.
Starting from today we are accepting project submissions for Works In Progress showcases. As we will launch the Just Film Works In Progress, there will be a special session of children's and youth film projects. Just Film is the largest sub-festival of Black Nights taking place during the main festival, that will be celebrating its19th consecutive year with approximately 50 children's and youth feature films screened
Some of last year's projects have already been experiencing international success as Dogs Don't Wear Pants (Finland) was selected for Quinzaine des Realisateurs and Karlovy Vary and Days of the Whale (Colombia) landed at SXSW.
Project submission deadline: 15 September, 2019.
SCRIPT POOL WINNER HEADS TO TIFF
Great news from Canada! The winner of the 2017 edition of Script Pool Tallinn, Shonali Bose has finished her film The Sky Is Pink that she co-wrote with Nilesh Maniyar who was presenting the project in Tallinn (the two also co-directed and wrote Margharita With A Straw, best actress award at Black Nights FF in 2014). The Sky Is Pink will have its world premiere as a gala screening at the Toronto International Film Festival this September!
A friendly reminder that Script Pool 2019 submission is currently open.
MUSIC MEETS FILM'S FIRST SPEAKER: RICHARD HARVEY
British composer and production company West One Music co-founder Richard Harvey is a BAFTA winner, a respected orchestral conductor and a virtuoso performer on a wide range of Western and ethnic instruments. He became involved in composing for film and television in the 1970s and has scored over 80 television and film projects to date, from British television series, documentaries and feature-length TV films, to major Hollywood titles.
At Music Meets Film 2019, running from the 25th until the 27th of Nov, Harvey shares his insights into his composition realm using historic and ethnic instruments in film music, about scoring trends and the direction of film music in the future.
WATCH RICHARD DISCUSS THE SOUND OF THE MANDOLA
PROJECT SUBMISSION DEADLINES
Script Pool Tallinn - 2 September. Submit HERE!
Baltic Event Co-Production Market - 2 September. Submit HERE!
POWR Baltic Stories Exchange - 2 September. Submit HERE!
Get the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event accreditation at a discount price - 125 EUR - before the 16th of September!
The Festival + Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event accreditation is reserved exclusively for film industry professionals and is valid for the festival period, from the 15th of November until the 1st of December, 2019. It allows you to get the most out of Tallinn - take part of all the open lectures, pitchings, the audiovisual conference European Film Forum Tallinn, workshops and events of Industry@Tallinn &; Baltic Event and to see up to 40 films in the programme of Black Nights.
