CentEast - Warsaw Screenings of Central and Eastern European films
October 12 - 15, 2005

The first edition of the regional film market CentEast - Warsaw Screenings will be held on October 12-15 in Warsaw. The main objective of the market is to increase interest in Central and Eastern European films among professionals.

The market will be attended by more than one hundred professionals from 24 countries: Argentina, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, UK, USA and Poland. There are distributors, producers, sales agents, festival and film market representatives among them.

The market programme includes screenings of about twenty new films from Central and Eastern Europe, meetings with professionals and panel discussions.

The topic of the panel discussion on Friday, October 14, is sales and marketing of Central and Eastern European films, whereas on Saturday, October 15, the most important European film markets, these are in Cannes, Rotterdam, Berlin and Mannheim will be presented.

The market is organised by Warsaw Film Foundation, whereas the main sponsor is Polsat Television. The event is supported by MEDIA Programme of the European Union and Polish Ministry of Culture