EAST SILVER MARKET 2011 – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The 8th edition of East Silver, a documentary market specialized in Eastern and Central European documentary is now open for submissions! Submit your film to the biggest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. East Silver is organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in Jihlava, Czech Republic in October, 25 – 30, 2011.
East Silver is not just documentary film market, an annual event of one week. Its main purpose is to promote and enhance international distribution of creative documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe by mediating connection among key international industry players and local film professionals. With its year-round activities, East Silver provides assistance and guidance to producers, working with titles in various stage of development, mostly with completed films and projects in postproduction stage, which are ready for various distribution channels. Through its unique tools, the East Silver Caravan (festival service) and the East Silver TV Focus (designed to increase international TV broadcast), and industry networking events East Silver represents an important unique platform for local and international documentary professionals.
The East Silver Caravan represents a selection of some of the most interesting documentary films of the market that are submitted to various international film festivals during the year. The goal of the project is to help creative films get released on festivals and secure attention of industry professionals and audiences around the world.
East Silver TV Focus is designed to help documentaries with high broadcasting potential to find their broadcasters and matching TV slots. Individual TV buyers are than approached with the offer. It’s no coincidence that many of the commissioning editors and buyers visits East Silver Market in person, which helps us to keep ourselves informed about their actual needs. We are able to analyze and recommend the most suitable TV stations and professionals.
Apart from all those activities East Silver also offers various industry programme during the market: Industry screenings of upcoming documentary films, National Co-production Days - panels and meetings with professionals from selected countries (in past: Austria, Slovakia, Poland, France, Finland, Germany, in 2011: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania and Czech republic), East Silver Tours and Talks of the Day with invited guests introducing distribution companies, film markets or important funding resources.
In order to promote new unique documentaries and talents, in 2009 East Silver introduced the Silver Eye Awards for best documentary films at the market. As part of its promotion activities, East Silver offers possibility to submit films and offer discounts for producers to various important international documentary film markets (e.g., IDFA - Docs for Sale, HotDocs - DocShop, Thessaloniki DocMarket, FID Marseille, Discop EAST, Sunny Side of the Doc, Visions du réel - DocOutlook, DOK Leipzig). Silver Eye Awards are handed over during the Opening ceremony of Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival.
East Silver’s latest project is the East Silver Online Video Library with the last two editions of the market accessible to industry professionals. At the moment, professionals can at any time watch 544 films. Sales agents, commissioning editors, distributors, buyers or festival representatives, who would like to get access to the video library, should contact at: office@eastsilver.net.
To help professionals get oriented to the landscape of documentary cinema of Eastern Europe, East Silver annually publishes a catalogue with detailed information about films in the current edition. The catalogue also has its online version at www.eastsilver.net with more detailed credits, trailers and information important for industry professionals.
This year’s edition of East Silver Market will be held from the 25th to 30th of October, 2011.
Submissions deadline is June 30, 2011.
You can submit the film via online entry form (click here).
Submission is also valid for:
* 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (www.dokument-festival.cz) programme preselection
* Doc Alliance Films (www.docalliancefilms.com) preselection.
Only completed documentaries produced in 2010 – 2011, with English subtitled or English voiceover as well as with trailer will be accepted.
2 DVD screeners and any additional press and promo materials should be sent to:
East Silver
Školská 12
110 00 Prague
Czech Republic
Additional IDF deadlines:
June 30, 2011 – DOC LAUNCH
September 1, 2011 – EAST EUROPEAN FORUM
September 30, 2011 - INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION
Contact:
Anna Kaslova
East Silver Coordinator
info@eastsilver.net
More at: www.eastsilver.net.