[Oberlist] Exchange Forum “Perspectives for Animated Film“

[Nora Dorogan]

Exchange Forum “Perspectives for Animated Film“

Dresden – Kiev

16 till 23 April 2009

Call for Bids

Filmfest Dresden and Goethe-Institut Ukraine offer young European
filmmakers the unique opportunity for an international exchange within the
framework of the 21st Filmfest Dresden. The objective of this programme is
to give up-and-coming talents the opportunity for building up international
cooperations and to inform about ways of getting financial support for
their projects. The programme is addressed to young filmmakers, especially
graduates and students from film academies.

As two cities with international activities in the field of animated films
Kiev and Dresden are ideal for this exchange: Dresden was over 40 years
habitat of DEFA trick film studios. After its liquidation DIAF (German
Institute for Animated Film) has taken over the function as an archive and
research centre as well as an institution for exhibitions. In 1989 Filmfest
Dresden was founded as a forum for animated film. Kiev, the Ukrainian
capital, also looks back on a long film tradition, represented among others
by the animation studio Ukranimafilm and supported by Krok Kyiv
International Animated Film Festival.

The Exchange Forum will take place during one week in Dresden and Kiev with
the opportunity to learn more about educative and promotional structures of
the exchange country. The participants will also have an insight into the
latest developments of Ukrainian, German and international animation. To
allow a thorough exchange between participants and to open the way for
international cooperations, they will have the opportunity to present and
discuss their own works. There will also be discussions and the opportunity
for individual talks with international representatives of the animated
film.

 

Application requirements:

For the project we would like to invite young filmmakers, producers and
other professionals from the animated film sector. The number of
participants will be limited to 20 people. Working language will be
English.

We offer the reimbursement of the following costs for the participants:

-          accommodation & breakfast in Dresden & Kiev + one meal per day

-          accreditation at Filmfest Dresden

-          travel expenses for the journey from Dresden to Kiev and back

-          expenses for arrival to and departure from Dresden will be
refunded at the lowest possible rate (within Europe only)

 

Please send your applications only via E-Mail and in English including a
curriculum vitae and a filmography, a description of your current or planed
film project(s) and a short statement why you want to take part. Please
configurate your cv and your filmography the way you wish to present
yourself on our homepage in case of being invited to the forum. We do only
accept individual applications. We kindly ask you to send a DVD/VHS of a
film of yours by regular mail (or tell us a link to watch a film) to:

 

-          from Ukraine:
Nina Goncharenko, Goethe-Institut Ukraine, wul. Woloska 12/4, 04070 Kiew,
Ukraine

Tel.: + 38 044 496 12 83, Fax:  + 38 044 496 97 89,
programm la kiew.goethe.org

      www.goethe.de/ukraine

 -    from other countries including Germany:
Filmfest Dresden, Lars Meyer, Alaunstr. 62, 01099 Dresden, Germany

forum la filmfest-dresden.de (tel.: +49 351 829 47 11);
www.filmfest-dresden.de

Deadline for applications is 19 January 2009!