More focus on trade at CentEast Market Warsaw
- Unspooling between October 19-21, the CentEast Market Warsaw has scheduled six Polish films, ten works-in-progress from eastern Europe and Russia and three industry presentations
As around 200 film professionals – producers, buyers, sellers, programmers – open the 8th CentEast Market Warsaw during the 28th Warsaw International Film Festival tomorrow (October 19), they will meet the traditional programme of Warsaw Screenings and the package of works-in-progress from Eastern Europe and Russia.
"This year, however, there is also a new emphasis on trade presentations with the opportunity to meet key people from various corners of the industry," explained Market Director Magdalena Banasik, who has co-ordinated the event since it went since it connected to Moscow in 2009.
On October 20, Festival Director Stefan Laudun will introduce his colleagues in the Association of Leading International Film Festivals in Poland, including Roman Gutek (New Horizons/Wroclaw), Krzysztof Gierat (Krakow Film Festival) and Marek Zydowicz (Plus Camerimage/Bydgoszcz).
He will also announce a new China-Europe Film Promotion project, which will be realised with Beijing's Film Factory in collaboration with Russia's TVINDIE Film Production and the film festivals in Tallinn (Black Nights), Sofia and Cluj (Transylvania).
Finally Film Commission Poland (Rafal Orlicki) and Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission (Anna Spisz, Michal Kosmala) will promote support and locations in the region – "the heart of Poland" – for international film productions.
Originally a programme of closed trade screenings, first of local films, then extended to cover central Europe, the Warsaw festival and Moscow's TVINDIE instigated the CentEast Market for works-in-progress three years ago: the entries are first shown in Moscow (this year on October 16, in the Red Square Screenings), then in Warsaw. This year the package includes ten titles (three from Russia, two from Romania, one from Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia).
Five Polish films in the festival, including Andrzej Jakimowski's Imagine [+see also:
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