European Film Promotion

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European Film Promotion eV (EFP) is a pan-European network for the promotion and promotion of European films and talent. Under the EFP label, the members participate in a wide variety of initiatives that promote European film and its diversity worldwide and network the European film industry internationally at the most important film festivals and film markets around the world.

Responsibilities and activities

Together with its 38 members from 37 countries, the Hamburg-based association develops programs and initiatives to promote European film, its diversity and its filmmakers worldwide and to give the European film industry visibility at the most important film festivals and film markets and to network it internationally . The members of the network, founded in 1997, are film institutes and promotion agencies from countries of the European Community as well as from countries that are members of the Council of Europe or are geographically located within the external borders defined by the Council of Europe.

The best-known activities of the network include the EFP European Shooting Stars , a doctoral program for ten selected young European actors, which are presented to the international press and film industry every year at the Berlinale , and the Producers on the Move initiative for international networking and promotion of 20 selected, emerging European producers at the Cannes Film Festival .

Other programs focus on films by young directors (Future Frames, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ), focus on directing work by women (Europe! Voices of Women in Film, Sidney Film Festival ) or specialize in documentaries (The Changing Face of Europe !, Toronto Film Festival ). With the Europe! Umbrellas and the Film Sales Support program, EFP offers further initiatives to increase the visibility of European film worldwide and to give European films and their sellers better access to festivals and film markets outside Europe.

history

The predecessor organization is the European Film Distribution Office (EFDO), which was co-founded by Dieter Kosslick in Hamburg in 1988 as a project of the European MEDIA I funding program . The network idea in particular was taken up and further developed in the European Film Promotion association, which was initially founded in 1997 by ten members. The president of the network is Martin Schweighofer ( Austrian Film Commission ), and Sonja Heinen took over management from her predecessor and EFP co-founder Renate Rose in 2017.

supporter

The association is supported by Creative Europe with its MEDIA program for Europe's audiovisual industry, by the BKM (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media), the Film Funding Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and the Authority for Culture and Media of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Members

Individual evidence

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  2. Introducing the 2018 European Shooting Stars . In: Screen . ( screendaily.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).
  3. ^ EFP presents the 18th edition of Producers on the Move. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  4. Alissa Simon: Future Frames Showcase at Karlovy Vary Casts the Spotlight on Promising Creative Talent . In: Variety . June 23, 2017 ( variety.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).
  5. EFP takes women filmmakers to the Sydney Film Festival. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  6. ^ Leo Barraclough: Hot Docs, EFP Offer Peek at 'Changing Face of Europe' . In: Variety . March 20, 2018 ( variety.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).
  7. ^ Leo Barraclough: European Film Promotion Launches Slate Funding Program at Toronto Film Festival . In: Variety . June 21, 2016 ( variety.com [accessed April 23, 2018]).
  8. ^ EFP takes Europe to Busan. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  9. ^ Gaby Koblitz: The EU's film funding: From the beginnings of the MEDIA program to MEDIA PLUS . AV Akademikerverlag, Saarbrücken 2012, ISBN 978-3-639-41306-9 , p. 120 .
  10. Aufblen.de. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .