Europe Créative MEDIA Doc Results

Every thursday I receive the French newsletter@mediafrance.eu called e-MEDIA, last week number 387. It gives for the professional sector useful and precise information about upcoming deadlines for applications to get support from the (now) Creative Europe – Media, as well as paragraphs on festivals and results of supported projects. The angle is of course French but there are always links that give the whole picture – below you have one that will take you to the list of the companies that have received 25.000€ to develop their documentary.  

87 projects in development were supported, 36 of them documentaries in the so-called single-project scheme. (There is also a scheme for slate-funding).

Being the first round under the new Creative Europe-Media and having heard the usual rumours about (one more) centralisation to be performed from the offices in Brussels, I studied the list and was happy to see the diversity of countries, and that the smaller and weaker countries were there. Let me mention three projects that I was happy to eye:

”River Tales” by Activist38 in Bulgaria ( = Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova), ”Next Stop: Utopia” from Greece (= Marco Gastine as producer and Apostolos Karakasis as director) (photo from previous film of Karakasis, “National Garden”) and ”Dangerous Liaisons, Russia’s Soft Power” from strong Latvian company Mistrus Media (= Gints Grube). And there are Czech projects, Italian, Belgian – whereas the big countries France and Germany are not at all ”eating it all”. 

A new ”appel à projects” will be published this autumn.

If you click the link of the newsletter – above – you can get in contact with the Media France and get on the list to receive the information.

http://www.mediafrance.eu/

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Tue Steen Müller
Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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