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Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event announce the projects for the Script Pool and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange

POWR pitching session, 2016 The two initiatives by Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event that work with script projects, have announced the 2017 participants. Script Pool Tallinn is the new script development competition that is launching at this year’s Industry@Tallinn with the main prize including 5000 euros and mentoring sessions with a professional script doctor, both provided by the European leading licensing company Telepool. Seven teams consisting of scriptwriters and produce...

Black Nights Film Festival mourns the passing of programmer Igor Gouskov

  Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sadly informs that festival programmer, film researcher and critic Igor Gouskov passed away on the 8th of October.   Gouskov died  in Paris where he had lived for the last few years. He was 50 years old.   Festival director Tiina Lokk said: ‘Igor w...

The Black Nights Film Festival is to celebrate’s Finland’s 100th anniversary with a 48-hour marathon screening

Moonlight Sonata     In special recognition of Finland's 100th birthday, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has created a special programme of 23 films celebrating Finnish cinematic history, which will be shown in a 48-hour-long marathon screening.  The unprecedented screening is set to take place between the 24th and 26th of November at the old cinematheque Kinomaja in Tallinn’s Old Town. The events programme will include a karaoke contest and a live peforman...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival completes the Official Selection lineup with eleven new titles

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Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival adds ten films to the previously announced eight that will compete in the Official Selection (formerly called the Main Competition) for the festival’s Grand Prix and one film that will be screened out of competition. Ten of the films in the competition line-up will have their world, seven their international and one its European premiere. Eight films are from Europe, seven from Asia, two have been made in the US and one in South America. Festiv...

Tallinn Black Nights sub-festival Just Film chosen to present ECFA award

European Children's Film Association I Association Européenne du Cinéma pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse   Just Film, a sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to screening children’s and youth cinema announces that the European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will appoint a jury and present the prestigious ECFA Award to one film from the programme.   The winning films from each ECFA member festival will move on ...

Over 700 guests expected at Industry@Tallinn 27 November until 1 December, 2017

  Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event is the pro platform of Black Nights Film Festival and Baltic Event teams that offers one of the fastest growing audiovisual industry meetings in Northern Europe with more than 700 attending guests in 2016. Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event take place on 27 November until 1 December, 2017. Details available on: industrytallinn.com   This year, the Industry has launched a series of new events in connection with creative industrie...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival announces the first competition titles

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (aka PÖFF) announces 13 titles from its two international competition programmes. The remaining films from each lineup will be announced in October. The festival has renamed the Main Competition the Official Selection, retaining most of its previous awards and regulations. The eight films announced are set to compete for the festival’s Grand Prix, alongside with the rest of the programme, that will be announced on the 17th of October. The...

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LAST CHANCE: INDUSTRY + FESTIVAL ACCREDITATION DISCOUNT Gives you access to all open Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event panels, press and industry screenings and more + 30 public screenings in the programme of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival +  access to Estonia's European Presidency Conference on audiovisual content, technology and policy. Price until 14 Sep - 125 EUR Price from 15 Sep until 27 Oct - 150 EUR   ...

European Genre Forum new training programme for 1st time 2nd time directors

  EUROPEAN GENRE FORUM READY TO ENTER NEXT STAGE The EGF is a training programme that sets to boost the careers of future players in the genre film industry through four days of trainings, panels and pitching sessions. The programme, aimed at European director/producer teams developing their 1st or 2nd feature length genre film project, is jointly organised by...

Final call for this year's Baltic Event and International Works In Progress showcases

      This is the final call for this year's Baltic Event and International Works In Progress showcases that will take place during Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event on 29 and 30 November. Prog...

Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event's Final Calls for Script Pool Tallinn, POWR Baltic Stories Exchange

      INDUSTRY@TALLINN & BALTIC EVENT PROJECTS AT TORONTO We congratulate the projects that have participated in the different sections of Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event in recent years and have been selected into the programme of TIFF. ...

Submission opens for audiovisual and media tech startup accelerator Storytek

    Submissions are now open for the Storytek accelerator, the first mentor-driven accelerator fully focusing on audiovisual sector, where deep knowledge of the global film and creative industry mixes with top notch technology competence. Estonia, already a world leader in technology innovation with pioneering e-residency and e-governance solutions and home to the renowned Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) is a natural fit for fostering the ecosyste...

The Men in Black at Cannes

Pictured in Cannes at the Estonian Film Commission Party in Cannes, from  left to right Bruno Chatelin filmfestivals.com partner of the festival (look out for the ccoverage of the upcoming Black Nights Film Festival), Hannes AAVA Programmer Programming, Publicity/PR,  Sten-Kristian SALUVEER Head of Development, Management, Programming. Eda Koppel - Estonian Film Institue Head of Marketing hosting the party with Edith Sepp ...

Tallinn Black Nights sub-festival Just Film chosen to present ECFA award

  Just Film, a sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to screening children’s and youth cinema announces that the European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will appoint a jury and present the prestigious ECFA Award to one film from the programme.   The winning films from each E...

The award winners of the 20th Tallinn Black Nights Festival

Main CompetitionJury Members: Uberto Pasolini, Steen Bille, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Laura Birn, Kang Soo-Yeon, William Goldstein Grand Prix for the Best Film(bronze wolf statuette and a grant of 10 000 Euros, equally shared by the director and producer) Film: A QUIET HEART Country: Israel Director: Eitan Anner Producer: Gal Greenspan Receives: Eitan Anner Jury comment: For an inspiring journey towards hope and courage. Jury prize for the Best Director(bro...

"Lines" Press Conference with Vassilis Mazomenos at Black Nights Film Festival 2016

Black Nights Film Festival's Main Competition - Lines | Dir. Vassilis Mazomenos | Country: Greece Interview with director Vassilis Mazomenos and producer Lampros Georgopoulos | Moderator Giampietro Balia.         (© BNFF) Acclaimed Greek writer, director and producer Vassilis Mazomenos’ new film, Lines [+], world-premiered in the Tallinn Black Nights Main ...

76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami screens in Tallinn

76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami   Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival screens Abbas Kiarostami’s short film Take Me Home with the documentary 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami   The 20th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will see the screening of one of the last compeleted films by the recently departed beloved master of Iranian cinema – Abbas Kiarostami. The short film Take Me Home is one of th...

Baltic Event kicked off

15TH BALTIC EVENT KICKS OFF  Four busy days with meetings, workshops, screenings and awards - today we are opening the birthday edition of Baltic Event, the largest co-production platform in North-Eastern Europe. Read more      Co-Production Market Seventeen exciting projects will be presented at the Baltic Event Co-Production Market 21-24 November. Read more   ...

European premiere of The Edge of Seventeen at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia

    The highly anticipated Sony Pictures Releasing International film The Edge of Seventeen will have its European premiere at the 20th Edition of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia this Sunday, 20 November at 6 p.m. in the Kosmos IMAX cinema, on the eve of the US domestic launch of the film from STX Entertainment. Rising star Hayden Szeto will be attending the fest...

European Film Forum Tallinn eyes the continent's future in the digital content race

Will Europe stay in the global game in the time of changing media windows, and what will the future of its audiovisual industries look like? These are two major topics on the agenda of the European Film Forum, the European Commission's flagship conference which for the second consecutive year will be held at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event. Titled "Breaking Windows - Tackling Convergence in the European Media Landscape", the Forum is a full-day executive level publ...

New Tallinn Storytek initiative brings creativity, tech and finance together

This year Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event presents a new initiative - Storytek Forum, a conference bringing together creatives, tech platforms and investors from across the world to explore, explain and help navigate the future of the booming content business. Storytek Forum is a one-day inspirational brainstorming and discussion forum at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event with top business experts explaining the secrets of digital marketing, financing, production and sales in the ...

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About Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival



Started in 1997, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has grown into one of the biggest film festivals in Northern Europe and busiest regional industry platforms, hosting more than 1000 guests and industry delegates and over 160 journalists. The festival screens around 250 features and more than 300 shorts and animations and sees an attendance of 80 000 people annually. In 2017 the festival was covered in 71 languages with a potential global media audience of over 1.1 billion people.

As of 2014 the festival holds the FIAPF accreditation for holding an international competition programme which puts the festival into the so- called A-category of film festivals, alongside other 14 festivals in the world (including Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Karlovy Vary, San Sebastian, Shanghai, Tokyo etc).  

Black Nights has an umbrella structure with two sub-festivals PÖFF Shorts and youth and children's film festival Just Film taking place concurrently with the main festival,
two off-season festivals - Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival and Tartu Love Film Festival - and a fully-fledged film industry platform Industry@Tallinn, organised jointly with the Baltic Event Co-production market.


DATES IN NOVEMBER
Black Nights Film Festival 16 Nov - 2 Dec
PÖFF Shorts 20 Nov - 25 Nov
Just Film 16 Nov - 2 Dec
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event 26 Nov - 30 Nov


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