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DAFilms.com Presents: Retrospective of Jonas Mekas
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“My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don’t pay attention to it when it happens.”
DAFilms.com present an extensive retrospective of Jonas Mekas, 95-year-old director straddled between Europe and the US, documentary and the avant-garde. Discover the work of the Lithuanian-American director, poet and visual artist often called the godfather of American avant-garde cinema and founder of the diary genre in documentary film.
SOFA – School of Film Agents launches pilot workshop in Vilnius, focusing on public-private project financing and investment
In addition to its existing workshops in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Warsaw (Poland), SOFA – School of Film Agents is launching a third workshop in Vilnius, Lithuania. Between 11 and 15 September 2018, selected SOFA alumni will get the chance to present their projects in front of experienced private investors and representatives of European public film funds. With this new workshop, SOFA offers its participants and their cultural projects direct access to potential financing partners from the public and private sector.
PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
The exclusive group of 20 up-and-coming producers selected for the 19th edition of European Film Promotion’s (EFP) networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE (May 10 – 14, 2018) has come together at the Cannes Film Festival to exchange experiences and find co-production partners for their next trans-national projects.
THE THIRD SESSION OF ESoDoc TO BE HELD IN VILNIUS
For the first time a session of ESoDoc – European Social Documentary – organised by ZeLIG School for Documentary and supported by EU‘s Creative Europe Programme – will take place in Vilnius on October 15-21, 2017.
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THIRD SESSION OF EKRAN+ 2016 HAD STARTED! INTERNATIONAL GUESTS, 9 FILM SETS AND CONSULTATIONS WITH MASTERS OF CINEMA
The participants were able to invite the actors and DoPs from their countries to join them for the third session. The list of DoPs includes Mykola Yefimenko (Ukraine), Marek Dvořak (Czech Republic), Simonas Glinskis (Lithuania) and Gabriel Sandru (Switzerland). The cast will include Polish actors such as Olga Bołądź, Piotr Polak and Marcin Bosak as well as international actors headed by Sandra Voe – British film and theater actress and collaborator of Mike Leigh (“Naked”, “Vera Drake”) and Lars von Trier (“Breaking the Waves”).
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