REELS DU RHIN : A tri-national program accompanying film students in the creation of webseries
REELS DU RHIN : A tri-national program accompanying film students in the creation of webseries
Publié par Eda Uner le Wednesday 27 July 2022
Industry meetingFor 6 months, from January to June 2022, students, assisted by coaches, worked in trinational teams (France/Germany/Switzerland) on the conception of series intended to be broadcast on a social network. This script-lab was organized by the Hochschule Offenburg in the framework of the Interreg CinEuro Upper Rhine project.
Web series for social networks
Ask the generation that studies film today: they still watch the classic 52-minute series. But series are no longer only broadcast on television. Streaming platforms, video hosting sites, social networks and digital tools offer new screens on which series can reinvent themselves, in format, length and theme.
Many series are now broadcast directly on Youtube, Spotitfy, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch. If they are still broadcast on traditional channels, they sometimes play the transmedia card, on the border between fiction and reality, by creating, for example, accounts for the series’ characters on social networks, allowing the viewer to follow the evolution of the plot on different communication channels and to interact with the story.
A script lab for students
In this context, a tri-national writing workshop was set up for about 15 students from the Hochschule Offenburg in Germany, the University of Strasbourg and the Institut Européen du Cinéma et Audiovisuel (IECA) in France and the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW) in Switzerland.
5 teams were formed and worked for 6 months on writing a series, producing a first episode and being trained in “pitching”, the presentation of these projects to a jury of professionals.
They were assisted in this endeavour by multiple professionals and 2 coaches: Sabine Burg, Professor of scriptwriting and directing at the Media University of Offenburg and Max Disbeaux, Author-director and lecturer at the University of Strasbourg.
Valuable advice was given to the students during the launch days of the Reels du Rhin on January 13 and 14, 2021 online, in a still tense cross-border health context.
Sara Günter explained the functioning of the Funk platform, which is run by the German public television stations and is aimed at 15-30 year olds, using the examples of the series “Druck” or “Follow me”. Tisch Lüscher, presented the series “Becoming Momo” broadcasted on Instagram by the Swiss TV channel SRF. Ambroise Bouchez-Gathelier spoke about his work as an author for the series “Road tripes” broadcast on the Instagram account of RTBF.
A common subject: the Upper Rhine
The concept of the series (fiction, documentary) is left to the free choice of the teams but the scenario must necessarily be about the Upper Rhine: its inhabitants, its borders, its stories.
In order to help the students to better grasp the subject, Zaid Ghasb presented the rich archive of family, institutional, corporate or commercial films from the Upper Rhine region available on the Upper Rhine Film Library, a platform that was created within the framework of the interreg project “Rhinédits” and will be completed in 2021.
Felix Neumann, one of the members of the Franco-German hiphop group Zweierpasch, spoke about how his identity and experience as a border-crosser are reflected in his music. The bilingual lyrics evoke the borders against the background of the bridge over the Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl, or the nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, which is opposed by many voices on both sides of the Rhine.
Towards the pitch
The student groups met for the first time in person at the Festival Shorts in Offenburg from April 26 to 29. They were able to make progress on their projects and were trained in the pitching method.
The final step was the presentation of their projects during the Forum Alentours – Rendez-vous de la coproduction rhénane in front of a professional jury composed of a Swiss producer (Judith Lichtneckert, Perron X), a German representative of a regional channel (Jan Berning, SWR) and a representative of the French platform Noozy (Marc Bourhis).
This professional meeting gathers each year nearly 300 authors, directors, producers around the cinematographic and audiovisual co-production between Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. It took place from June 28 to 30, 2022 at the Théâtre du Maillon in Strasbourg and allowed students to present their projects in front of an audience of professionals.
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CinEuro X Locarno – Selected producers
Publié par Alexis Smouts le Wednesday 13 July 2022
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Forum Alentours 2022
Publié par Alexis Smouts le Monday 27 June 2022
The 2022 edition of the Forum Alentours, the annual flagship event for cross-border film and audiovisual co-production between Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, will take place from June 28 to 30 in Strasbourg.
Program
Join us for a rich and eclectic program:
- Meetings coordinated by the Eurometropole of Strasbourg will give the opportunity to a hundred producers and financiers (cinema, television, new media) to find partners from the border countries. A selection of 25 projects will be proposed to them.
- During numerous panels, organized by the Grand Est Region in conjunction with CinEuro and its partners, professionals will be able to discuss the main issues for the industry and the potential offered by the cross-border film area.
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A networking cocktail for the animated film industry
Publié par Eda Uner le Monday 20 June 2022
Presence at festivalsCinEuro was pleased to invite the animated film industry to a networking cocktail on June 15, during the MIFA – International Animation Film Market.
More than 100 studios, filmmakers and other animation industry players from France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland took the opportunity to exchange with CinEuro’s partners, inlcuding film funds.
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CinEuro at the Cannes Film Festival
Publié par Eda Uner le Friday 27 May 2022
Presence at festivalsOn May 20th, CinEuro organized a Networking Event on the sidelines of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, a must-attend event for film professionals.
The opportunity to meet CinEuro’s partners and cross-border professionals from France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Gathered around the inaugural speech of Arnaud Robinet, more than 200 people were then able to exchange and talk about their current projects.
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Writers’ workshop: Develop your content and your film ideas!
Publié par Alexis Smouts le Tuesday 24 May 2022
Balimage is pleased to invite you to a workshop on content and story development
Writing a screenplay is a sensitive, sometimes fragile and very personal process.
Long before resorting to the dramaturgical toolbox, the rules of which are handed down in numerous textbooks and courses, it is first of all a matter of confronting one’s own material – and thus oneself – and finding the personal, unique attitude with which one can tell a story and no one else.
What does this mean in concrete terms? What are the steps in developing a story? What are the chances, the risks and the singularities offered to the author? Are there any rules that cannot be deviated from in this work that draws its strength from the freedom of the mind? This workshop will address the benefits of teamwork in this process by asking how teamwork works in this process.
This workshop will be led by Julia Willmann, a long-time screenwriter and professor of content development in Germany (e.g. at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin) and Switzerland (e.g. at the ZHdK). Prior to that, she worked for Arte in Strasbourg for a long time and as a director in Cologne. Julia grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied Romance and German languages and literature as well as media studies in Aix-en-Provence (FR), and then film making in Berlin. She is therefore very familiar with all the regions that make up the Upper Rhine.
Application deadline on June 7th!
Programm
10 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. : Short introduction round (person & film idea) – Exemples of story development talk
12.30 – 13.30 : Lunch
13.30 – 16.30 : Further development of own film idea in groups
16.40 – 17.30 : Exchange in plenum about findings
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Innervision
Publié par Charlotte Monnier le Monday 23 May 2022
SARL Innervision was founded in 2006 by a team of post-production enthusiasts.
It quickly established itself as a regional and national player, thanks to the recognized quality of its skills.
In just a few years, it has become one of Arte’s main partners for the production of the French versions of its programs.
Innervision immediately experienced strong growth. The company rapidly diversified and now offers a wide range of sound and image post-production services.
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French and German animation delegations meet at FMX in Stuttgart
Publié par Eda Uner le Monday 9 May 2022
Presence at festivalsOn May 5th, CinEuro accompanied a delegation of several French producers to the FMX in Stuttgart to meet the Animation Cluster of Baden-Württemberg.
This was an opportunity to introduce themselves to each other, to share projects in development and to discuss co-production possibilities.
Organized in parallel with other events focused on animation, visual effects, games and immersive media: the Animation Production Days and the Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart, the FMX attracts every year a large international audience in Stuttgart.
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Forum Alentours 2022 – Registrations open until June 17!
Publié par Charlotte Monnier le Thursday 5 May 2022
SAVE THE DATE
The 2022 edition of the Forum Alentours, the annual flagship event for cross-border film and audiovisual co-production, will take place from June 28 to 30 in Strasbourg.
Start of registration
If you would like to attend the Forum Alentours – Rhenish Co-Production Meeting, you can register now – registration deadline is 17 June 2022!
You have the choice between two accreditation options:
Full coproduction pass (Events + B2B)
Accreditation to attend events and B2B meetings for:
– Promoters (funds, distributors, TV channels, sales agencies).
– Producers who do not have a project in the catalogue but are aiming for an international strategy and are looking for co-production partners.
Event pass
Accreditation for events of the Forum Alentours 2022 for all possible participants without a project and without B2B.
The registration for this year’s edition of the Forum is required under the following form:
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Networking Cocktail – MIFA
Publié par Alexis Smouts le Tuesday 26 April 2022
CinEuro is pleased to invite you to a networking cocktail during the MIFA – International Animation Film Market!
Take the opportunity to exchange with studios, filmmakers and other animation industry players from France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland and with CinEuro’s partners.
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