The announcement was made during the Odessa International Film Festival.

The dates for the SOFA workshops are: Warsaw, 18-23 August 2019; Tbilisi, 25-30 April 2020 and Vilnius, 15-19 September 2020.

SOFA – School of Film Advancement is a joint project of Filmplus gUG (Cologne) and the Institute for Democratic Changes (Tbilisi), funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union.

The 2019 workshop in Poland is supported by the Polish Film Institute, the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation and the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, while the 2019 Lithuanian workshop will be funded by the Lithuanian Film Centre.

Selected Participants:

Premysl Martinek - Bionaut Kids (Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Medea Sharikadze - New Horizons Forum (Georgia)
Viki Antonopoulou - Attis – Bold Film Sales (Greece)
Drita Llolla - Dreams on Buckram (Montenegro)
Pavel Brăila - International Wedding Film Festival (Republic of Moldova)
Irena Gruca-Rozbicka - Crew United (Poland)

For more information on the 2019/20 participants and projects please go to http://joinsofa.org/projects-participants/

Click HERE for the press release.