Selection and promotion of the best from Central and Eastern European filmmaking
Fresh Film Fest annually offers a solid and varied array of Central and Eastern European student films focused on the Visegrad Group countries. Owing to this strategy and the partnership with a wide range of prominent Western European film festivals, Fresh Film Fest has become a gateway to the Western market for Eastern European talents. Corneliu Porumboiu, a participant in the first Fresh Film Fest competition and one of last years media campaign protagonists, has been awarded the Camera d'Or (Golden Camera) at the Cannes Film Festival.
Music
At the Fresh Film Fest there is wide array of accompanying events ranging from variety of professional workshops to music events. In the past years at the festival were such bands as PSH, Ohm Square, Tata Bojs, Khoiba, Sunshine, Xavier Baumaxa, Clou, Gulocar, Wohnout and many others. These were accompanied by many DJs.
Movies
Established platform of contemporary world cinematography. The mission of Fresh Film Fest, as well as other Czech film festivals, is to serve as a platform for presenting works which the festival appreciates for their unique artistic qualities and which cannot, due to the restricted possibilities of minor cinematographies such as the Czech one, find their way to the Czech cinemas easily. In order to draw attention to those works and to secure open access to such works in the future, the festival presents its own Fresh Selection. Among others, lastyears competition presented the latest films by Sidney Lumet (Find Me Guilty) and Richard Kelly (Southland Tales).
Books
The festival organisers have received many distinguished awards for putting on the festival. The production has won two FAMU awards. The director of the 2nd Fresh Film Fest trailer Jakub Kohak was awarded the third prize for the best trailer at the most prestigious contest for the best and most creative Czech advertisement. The 2nd Fresh Film Fest visual concept was honoured at the International Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno - according to many reliable sources the most renowned competition of its kind in the Czech Republic. (Source: Art periodicals).
Fresh Film Fest takes pride in all the awarded prizes especially with regard to the fact that visual designs of commercial nature are hardly ever selected for the festival concept; moreover, the selection process is extremely tough and stresses high artistic qualities of the presented works.
Heroes
Fresh Film Fest team: The rising generation of Czech film curators, producers and authors The competition films are selected by the youngest generation of Czech film curators: the members of the selection committees are young dramaturges who have, despite their age, already managed to reach key positions in organisations that in the eye of the Czech audience significantly contribute to the overall picture of world cinematography. The members of the pre-selection committees are program directors of various international film festivals such as AniFest (the largest festival of animated films in the Czech Republic), Prague Film Festival FebioFest (the largest non-competitive film festival in the Czech Republic) or the program managers of IFF Karlovy Vary and the Institute of Documentary Film. The festival production is also provided by the rising generation of Czech artists and producers. Fresh Film Fest has proven to be a solid starting point for many, who have later continued their professional careers at other Czech film festivals, as well as those who won international prestige outside the festival scope (Daniel Fiser - Architecture, Natalie Deakova - Theatre, Eva Pospisilova - Film, Tomas Vorel jr. - Film)
Fresh Film Fest is the largest display of student films in Central and Eastern Europe Concerning the number of shown films as well as the area covered, Fresh Film Fest is the largest international student film competition not only in the Czech Republic but also in the whole of the so-called Visegrad region. During five days, at the turn of August to September, more than 300 works representing the most progressive trends in student cinematography from all over the world are to be seen in six cinema halls, followed by feature-length film screenings and music concerts. Despite its short existence, the festival is a follow-up to a more than 30-year old tradition of international student film festivals held in Karlovy Vary. It secures its leading position among Central European film festivals by extensive contacts with the most prominent film schools (VGIK, FEMIS, FAMU, NFTS, Columbia), by showing films from exotic regions (Ecuador, Hong Kong, Cuba) as well as from the most vivid cinematographic territories (Latin America, Taiwan), and primarily by putting the emphasis on a high-quality, well-informed program dramaturgy, which rests entirely in the hands of the new generation of young film dramaturges, critics, authors and theoreticians.
Who I'd like to meet: Fresh Film Fest offers a combination of unique conditions. It is held in Karlovy Vary, a town that annually hosts an A-category international film festival and therefore provides excellent festival facilities and up-to-date cinema halls. Fresh Film Fest is also a partner event of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and it originates from the expansion of the former Student Films section. The organizing teams of both festivals widely overlap. This is just to mention a few reasons, why Fresh Film Fest holds a prominent and unrivalled status among other student film festivals from all over Central and Eastern Europe. Naturally, Fresh Film Fest cannot currently offer facilities and possibilities rivalling Berlinale Talent Campus or Cannes Cinefondation, one of the causes being the dismal situation in the field of cinematography promotion in the Czech Republic. Despite that, a cinema hall seating 1000 together with five other cinemas are available to festival participants as well as the festival club scene and several lounge rooms.
Heiner Goebbels´s Schwarz auf Weiss by BERG Orchestra and SKUTR. Derniere November 9 and 10 in Prague. Don´t miss it! Více zde - see/hear more
Dear Filmmakers, Film Studios, Schools and Organizations, 4-th edition of The International SHORT FILM FESTIVAL ŻubrOFFka, established by the BIALYSTOK CULTURAL CENTER, will be held on December3 - 6 2009 at cinema Forum in Bialystok, Poland.
WE ARE NOW DESPERATELY WAITING FOR YOUR FILMS!
Films should be sent on dvd, 25 min max. and completed in 2008-2009 are accepted.
Fiction films, animation & documentaries will definitely be considered.
THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ENTRIES IS : 17 november 2009
Only authors or producers are legally authorized to enter the work in the festival. One
author may submit multiple films (one DVD per film). Please note that we will accept only
fully completed and signed application forms.
The properly filled-in and signed entry form must be sent along with a DVD to the
Již tuto neděli 26. 4. T-SHIRT PARTY no. 4 !!!!! Start 13:00 hod. konec v nedohlednu.
Přijďte si nechat potisknout vámi přinesené oblečení motivy z HURA sítotiskové dílny. Kromě workshopu máte jednu z posledních možností prohlédnout si probíhající výstavu "Spejbl a Hurvínek v RebelArtu"
AHOJ SRDEČNĚ ZVEME NA NEJBLIŽŠÍ AKCI!!! Všichni kdo mají rádi komiksy a napínavé příběhy jsou srdečně zváni v pátek 20. března od 20 hod. do Galerie Hygienická Stanice.
CHOBOTANGO, KRAKATIT, SINGAPURSKÝ SPECIÁL AARGH, VOLEMAN 3 a další novinky na komiksové scéně, zde představí samotní autoři.
Jak se dostat na komiksový workshop do Singapuru, proč ležela 8 let u ledu komiksová adaptace Čapkova Krakatitu, co chystá Monster Kabaret Freda Brunolda a mnohem více se dozvíte, když přijdete a nebudete se bát zeptat! Komiksy si můžete též na místě zakoupit a nechat si je přítomnými autory podepsat.
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ACAMPANTE (arg) is a famous designer and musician and also establisher of biggest south american graphic design meeting TMDG. He will come to give us a lecture about his work, dealing with multinational brands and changing life direction just to independent work..
It will be excelent visual show with 6 projectors and old-monitor wall on a stage.
We invite warmly to participation in the III Podlaski Independent Short Film Festival żubrOFFka That will take place in Białystok on 4-7of December 2008. Please send films on our Competition ‘Eastward Window’ till 24 of November 2008. We are waiting and see you in Białystok! More info on our myspace.
