Programme

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11

10.00 – 18.30 

WORKING SESSIONS 

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Executive Lounge, 1st floor

(participants with projects only)

10.00 – 18.30

WORKING SESSIONS 

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Serdica Hall, 1st floor

(participants with projects only)

THURSDAY, MARCH 12

10.00 – 18.30 

WORKING SESSIONS With Isabelle Fauvel, Initiative Film (France)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Executive Lounge, 1st floor

(participants with projects only)

10.00 – 18.30

WORKING SESSIONS With Licia Eminenti, Key Writing (France)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Serdica Hall, 1st floor

(participants with projects only)

15.00 – 17.00

HOW TO WRITE A PROJECT Workshop by Martin Kiselov (Bulgaria)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Triaditza Hall 1, 1st floor

17.00 – 18.00

THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A PRODUCER TODAY With Katriel Schory, 

CEO of Israel Film Fund

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Triaditza Hall 1, 1st floor 

Parallel Programme

16.00 – 18.30

EUROPA CINEMAS SEMINAR

(closed event, Europa Cinemas participants only)

Location: G8 Cinema 

FRIDAY, MARCH 13

10.00 – 10.30

OPENING OF THE 12th SOFIA MEETINGS and WHO IS WHO AT THE 12th SOFIA MEETINGS

Presentation of all guests of Sofia Meetings

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor

10.30 – 11.50

SECOND FILMS PITCHING – 8 projects

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor

12.10 – 13.30

PLUS MINUS ONE PITCHING – 8 projects

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor

15.00 – 15.45  

HOW TO CO-PRODUCE WITH BELGIUM / .BE TAX SHELTER

With Jean-Yves Roubin, Frakas Productions (Belgium) 

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor    

15.45 – 17.00

100 YEARS BULGARIAN CINEMA panel

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor

Parallel Programme

9.30 – 17.30

EUROPA CINEMAS AUDIENCE SEMINAR

(closed event, Europa Cinemas participants only)

Location: G8 Cinema 

14.30 – 18.00

EUROPA DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP

(Closed event, Europa Distribution participants only)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Serdica Hall, 1st floor

17.45

Talk with the director Hussein Karabey

The screening of COME TO MY VOICE, Turkey-France-Germany, 2014, 105’  will be at 16.00

Location: CINEMA HOUSE 

SATURDAY, MARCH 14

9.30 – 18.00

ONE TO ONE MEETINGS

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sofia Conference Hall, 2nd floor

10.30 – 12.00

CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA DAY – NEW MOMENTS AND POSSIBILITIES

News, How to Apply, Financing Opportunities

Trainings With Kamen Balkanski, Head CED MEDIA (Bulgaria)

Ronan Girre, ACE – Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (France), Agata Czerner, Torino Film Lab (Italy) Dimitris Emmanouilidis, Mediterranean Film Institute (Greece)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA, Triaditza Hall 1, 1st floor

12.00 – 13.30

SOFIA CITY OF FILM PANEL

Malina Edreva, Head of the Cultural Commission - Sofia City Council (Bulgaria)

Todor Chobanov, Deputy Mayor - Sofia Municipality (Bulgaria)

Annette Maye, Galway Film Fleadh (Ireland)

Jay Jeon, Busan IFF / Asian Market (South Korea) 

Diana Andreeva, Observatory for Cultural Economics (Bulgaria)

Stefan Kitanov, Sofia IFF (Bulgaria)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Serdica Hall 1, 1st floor

15.00 – 15.45

CREATIVE FINANCING FOR AUDIOVISUAL PROJECTS Tips to successful crowdfunding campaigns and a practical case study: URBANCE, an animated tv series that raised $300,000 in 30 days.

With Domenico La Porta, CINEUROPA (Belgium)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Triaditza Hall 1

15.45 – 16.30

PRESENTATION OF VODO: Discovering & Distributing Amazing Indie Content 

by Cristina Demetrescu, VODO (UK)

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Serdica Hall 1, 1st floor

19.00

AWARDS CEREMONY Followed by screening of THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Juliano Ribeiro Saldago, Wim Wenders, France-Brazil-Italy, 2014, 110’

Location: NATIONAL PALACE OF CULTURE Hall 1

Parallel Programme

9.30 – 15.00 

EUROPA CINEMAS / EUROPA DISTRIBUTION JOINT SESSION

Location: G8 Cinema

12.00

SOFIA CITY OF FILM Interview with Autograph – Focus Georgia

Location: CINEMA HOUSE

15.30-17.30

EUROPA CINEMAS SEMINAR 

(closed event, Europa Cinemas participants only)

Location: G8 Cinema

SUNDAY, MARCH 15

10.00 – 12.00 

NU BOYANA STUDIOS TOUR Guided tour

Meeting Point: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA 

12.00 

SOFIA CITY OF FILM Interview with Autograph – Harutyun Khachatryan

Focus Armenia 1915Z The screening of ENDLESS ESCAPE, ETERNAL RETURN, Armenia, 2013, 90’  will be at 18:30

Location: CINEMA HOUSE  

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 12-15

10.00 – 19.00

VIDEO SCREENINGS Video Library

Location: GRAND HOTEL SOFIA Sredetz Meeting Room, 2nd floor