Regiofun International Festival of Film Producers REGIOFUN is the only event in Europe dedicated to films, which were made owing to the support of regional film funds and the help of various cities.
This event is part of a series of events organised by FNE Association aimed increasing audiences and the international visibility of films from the region by sharing successful models for projects that cross borders. FNE Association is the main networking platform bringing together the heads of film institutions in the central and eastern European region to decide issues of common AV policy and promote the reach of AV productions from the region beyond borders. More information www.filmneweurope.com
Schedule:
13:30-15:45 FNE Assoc: Regional Funds Film and TV Success Stories
New players and new concepts in regional funds. FNE Association countries present different models of how national and regional film funds as well as individual producers can work with television productions successfully.
Marco Polo 2 the Weinstein Company TV series recently took advantage of Slovakia’s new tax incentives to shoot there. How important are tax incentives for foreign producers?
The focus will be on attracting TV series as well as feature films and what the differences are in how to attract TV, as opposed to feature films. Are there really any differences? What are TV producers really looking for when they decide where to shoot in the region?
Panel Moderator: Katarzyna Grynienko, Head of Promotion Wajda Film School and FNE correspondent for Poland
(13:30- 14:30)
13:30-13:45 Introduction of FNE Association by Edith Sepp, Chair of FNE Assoc and head of Estonian Film Institute and Dariusz Jablonski, head of Apple Films and FNE Association Executive Council member. Anna Franklin: Short Presentation of FNE Association
13:45-14:00 Edith Sepp presents Estonian regional funds and their success stories
14:00-14:15 Dariusz Jablonski, FNE Association Executive Council and head of Apple Films Poland presents successful case study of TV programmes coproduced with BBC Spies of Warsaw/Marek Rozenbaum, Transfax Productions (Israel)
14:15-14:30 Q&A
14:30-14:45 Networking coffee break
14:45-15:00 Presentation of Head of Production Irma Šimanskytė, Lithuanian Film Centre, on new Lithuanian tax incentives and their success in attracting new productions to Lithuania.
15:00-15:15 Panel: International Television Producers: Johan Hedman is Head of TV at Tre Vänner Produktion, Dariusz Jablonski, Apple Films
What are the most important factors for you when you choose where to shoot a production? What is the importance of tax incentives in choosing where you shoot?
15:15-15:45 Q&A and Networking Coffee
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Contact: Anna Franklin +48 508 566 264
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This event is part of a series of events organised by FNE Association aimed increasing audiences and the international visibility of films from the region by sharing successful models for projects that cross borders.
Biography:
Johan Hedman is Head of TV at Tre Vänner Produktion. Hedman oversees Tre Vänner’s extensive tv-slate, which includes several tv-projects in different stages of development and production, aimed for both the national and the international market. Tre Vänner’s latest productions include bestselling author Camilla Läckberg’s The Fjällbacka Murders, as well as Hans Rosenfeldt's and Michael Hjorth’sSebastian Bergman. In 2014 Johan Hedman helped broker Tre Vänner Produktion’s development agreement with the European financier Studio Canal.
Marek Rosenbaum: Film producer and director. One of the most prominent personas of Israeli film industry. In 1988 in Tel Aviv, he established the Transfax production company, which has been functioning until now. He is the head of Film and Cinema Council at the Israel Export Institute, and since 2005 he has also been the president of the Israeli Film Academy. For six years he was the head of Israel Film and Television Producers Association, and currently he is a member of the Association’scouncil. He has produced more than one hundred feature films, documentaries and advertisements, and directed two of them.
Dariusz Jablonski is an active producer, director and scriptwriter. He also carries on many national and international activities as a President of the Polish Film Academy, Vice-President of European Producers Club, President of innovative training program for best Eastern European scriptwriters SCRIPTEAST. He is also a member of the European Film Academy. He established his company Apple Film Production twenty five years ago as one of a very first independent film production in Poland. So far the company has produced and co-produced more than 20 features, the same amount of full lenght documentaries and few succesful tv series, getting near to 200 international and national awards. He co-produced films with many European countries from Sweden to Israel and from UK to Russia. Recently Apple Film Production made Russian-Ukrainian-Polish feature of an award-winning director Alexey German jr. UNDER THE ELECTRIC CLOUDES. The co-production with Metrafilms (Russia) and Linked Films (Ukraine) was presented in main Competition of Berlinale 2015 and won Silver Bear Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution. He just completed a partly animated documentary KARSKI & LORDS OF HUMANITY dir. by Slawomir Grunberg, a Polish-US–Russian co-production which is succesfully released in Polish theatres in April 2015 with US distribution coming this fall. Among Apple Film’s features is also AFTERMATH by W. Pasikowski, a Polish-Dutch-Slovak-Russian co-production, acclaimed by Los Angeles Times and The New York Times critics as one of 3 best foreign films in US theatres in 2013. The film, described often as the most courageous Polish film has been awarded with numerous awards including Yad Vashem Chairman’s Award. In high-end drama credits Apple Film has also a co-production with Red Planet Pictures (UK) of epic series, marking the centenary of WW1, titled THE PASSING BELLS. Series was written by award-winning writer/producer Tony Jordan (Hustle, Life on Mars) and broadcasted in BBC 1 and TVP (Polish Television) November last year. His producer's credits include also SPIES IN WARSAW, a historical spy mini-series based on Alan Furst’s acclaimed novel by the same title, starring David Tennant, a co-production with Fresh Pictures (UK) for BBC and TVP (Polish Television) with participation of BBC Worldwide, BBC America and Arte.
