B’EST EAVE, organized in collaboration with training programme EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and CTB Film Company and P.O.V. Film Development Fund (Russia), and supported by Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, is a training initiative designed specifically for co-production projects between the European Union and the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine. The two workshops focus on script development, marketing, budgeting and financing, packaging and sales strategies, legal frameworks and exhibition practices in both regions.
B’EST EAVE 2015 slate consists of a number of first and second features, several of whom by awarded short film makers. Helen Takkin’s (Estonia) debut Don’t Forget to Breathe is a romantic drama of first love and second chances; The Longest Birthday, debut by Maxim Dashkin (Russia), a road-movie of a mother and his cancer-stricken son. Tragicomedy Otar’s Death, is yet another debut by Georgian Ioseb Bliadze, produced by German Eva Blondiau. Similarly, the East and the West have already joined on the project inspired by Azerbaijani history, Basket – a collaboration between Romanian producer Andra Popescu and Azerbaijani writer-director Imamaddin Hasanov. The second features are brought to the slate by Carolina Hellsgård (Germany), whose first feature won her the Berlinale Best First Feature Award, with the coming-of-age / immigration drama Sunburned; Finnish writer-director Jan Forsström with suspense drama The Great Bear, based on his own short story; Marine Zakaryan (Armenia) withMy Grandma’s Locks focusing on Armenian history; and award-winning commercial director Konstantin Charmadov (Russia) with comedy Senafon.
Participants without projects are producers Michael Geidel (Germany), Marek Novák (Czech Republic),Gabija Budreckyte (Lithuania), and Alina Rizvanova (Russia).
B’EST EAVE project list:
- Basket, producer Andra Popescu, Conset/Free Art, Azerbaijan/Romania, director Imamaddin Hasanov
- Don’t Forget to Breathe, producer Helen Vinogradov, Vincent Films, Estonia, director Helen Takkin
- The Great Bear, producer Maria Forsström, Tast Films Oy, Finland, director Jan Forsström
- The Longest Birthday, producer-director Maxim Dashkin, Victoria Films, Russia
- My Grandma's Locks, producer Raffi Niziblian, Parallels Film, Armenia, director Marine Zakaryan
- Otar's Death, producer Eva Blondiau, Color of May, Germany, director Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze
- Senafon, producer Anna Shalashina, 2D Celluloid, Russia, director Konstantin Charmadov
- Sunburned, producer Johanna Aust, Flickfilm, Germany, director Carolina Hellsgård
- Gabija Budreckyte, Kinomind Films, Lithuania
- Michael Geidel, MiriquidiFilm, Germany
- Marek Novák, Xova Film, Czech Republic
- Alina Rizvanova, Tabula Rasa, Russia
Additional information:
Riina Sildos
Head of Studies
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