Film O’Clock International Festival

The festival’s first edition took place from February 27 – March 3, 2021

Time to Meet. It’s Film O’Clock.

From the Baltics to the most Southern tip of Africa, Film O’Clock International Festival uses meridians to connect audiences across cities, countries, and continents. With simultaneous screenings and live Q&A’s, audiences are given the chance to experience a film festival from miles away. FoC IFF will bring the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres together, because the love for cinema stretches beyond our borders.

Curated by a committee of programmers from each country, the festival selection will focus on the discovery of new voices, and highlight each culture’s storytelling trends.

FoC IFF aims to make the film festival experience more accessible by eliminating expensive travel fees and the “by invitation-only” tradition. Films can be used as a vehicle to communicate emotions and ideas and, thereby, enrich the audience’s understanding of themselves and others. By connecting different audiences in the same time zone, the interchange of films and discussions aim to instil empathy and broaden one country’s awareness of another. A love is cultivated as a result, not only for cinema, but also for our time zone-neighbours.

Film O’Clock International Festival was founded by our alumna Mirona Radu, who is also the festival director and responsible for the Romanian film selection. Her NEXT WAVE colleague Ioanna Kryona collaborates as the festival delegate for Greece.

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Kino Prototype

Watching a film together gives us a chance to shape a common perspective of the present and the future. These last few months have highlighted in an unprecedented way how vital this feeling of community is. The coronavirus pandemic has forced movie-theaters to close everywhere around the globe, pushing moviegoers to adjust their way of viewing movies. In response to this situation, many exhibitors have tried not only to make films available, but also to recreate this dialogue which is essential to the cinematic experience.

Kino Prototype is a research project exploring the future of the collective cinema experience. By delving into creative strategies used locally to bring audiences together, this research aims to create an inventory of different innovative models experimented during this key period of transformation.

Through case studies of non-standard procedures, the project intends to map an uncharted territory: virtual screenings, watch parties, drive-in cinemas, experimental screenings conducted in movie-theaters etc… What are the innovative models that can help exhibitors and the sector as a whole to reshape the cinema experience? How can the industry empower local communities to watch ambitious and curated film programs?

We believe that learning from the diversity of models created can not only help us to thrive in new ecosystems, but also reinforce the power of cinema as a social and popular space.

Each screening is different and unpredictable.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch, we are actively looking for collective experiences from all over the world: contact@kinoprototype.com

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MORETHAN

A shared passion for film and a common commitment to a collaborative model of working across the value chain and beyond brought together five film professionals from different territories and inspired them to create MORETHAN as part of the NEXT WAVE programme.

As the film industry becomes increasingly global, they saw the need for a new kind of film agency, one that truly operates internationally through a network of partners working under the same collaborative roof.

The mission of MORETHAN is to bring together film professionals from around the world, aiming to create truly international projects, promoting diversity and supporting new voices.

MORETHAN is a collective film agency founded by five NEXT WAVE alumnae: Lorna Bösel from Germany, Emma Caviezel from Sweden, Lidia Damatto from Brazil, Queralt Pons from Spain and Magda Rotko from Poland.

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The C-Report

THE C REPORT – Changes, Challenges and Consequences for the Film Industry facing the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The C Report is a research paper that explores COVID-19’s impact on the global film industry.

Covering March through June 2020, the report analyses the trends that emerged as the film industry grappled with adapting to a sudden and unprecedented period of change. With the closure of cinemas and cancellation of festivals and markets, the industry largely turned to the digital realm for solutions. The report serves as an in-depth overview of this time and considers the ways in which cinema – as an artform and business – may be changed forever.

• The main topics covered include:
  the digitalisation of film festivals and markets;
• new approaches to windows and release strategies; and
• audience engagement trends and methods.

The findings of this report are based on the continuous observation of industry responses to the crisis, as well as interviews with film professionals. Film festival directors, sales agents, distributors, exhibitors and streaming service representatives offer their reflections and predictions on this (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime event.

The authors of the report are Magda Rotko (Poland/UK), Lorna Bösel (Germany) and Max Minkoff (UK/ Australia)with the supervision of Johanna Koljonen

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