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On-call training for assistant directors and junior producers FOCAL's eight-day Production Value workshop, which will take place from January 9 to 16, 2015 in Amsterdam, is intended to provide teams of junior producers and assistant directors with tools to budget professionally, create schedules for shooting days and provide creative input to producers and directors.

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Berlinale Co-Production Market deadline approaching Part of the Berlinale is the Co-Production Market. In 2016 it will take place from February 11 to 19. Producers looking for a co-production partner can submit a (feature film) project until October 21, 2015. Producers without a project can also register.

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Consultation about Creative Europe during KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival It CLICK! Amsterdam Animation Festival will celebrate its eighth edition from October 27 to November 1, 2015. You can register for an interview until October 29 at the latest.

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Best European Short Animated Film chosen during Cinekid This year the Cinekid Festival will once again show a selection of the best short European animated films. A jury nominates three films from this selection that have a chance of being declared Best European Short Animated Film.

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New call for support for film festivals The European Commission has published a new MEDIA call for Support for Film Festivals.

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History's Future in competition for Tiger Awards The film History's Future by director and artist Fiona Tan is the first of eight films selected for the 2016 Hivos Tiger Awards Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Actor Christopher Plummer wins the Joseph Plateau Honorary Award in Ghent Canadian acting veteran Christopher Plummer has been presented with the Joseph Plateau Honory Award by the management of the Film Fest Ghent in the Ghent town hall. This award honors those who made a special contribution to the art of filmmaking.

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Flemish director Van Passel thinks cinema release is cinema from the last century Frank Van Passel is director and producer at production house Caviar, producer and co-producer of Black, Paradise Trips, Back to Tomorrow, Diary of a Teenage Girl and Le Tout Nouveau Testament. "An initial cinema window of four months is standard: if a film is released in a cinema, it may not be offered on any other platform for the first four months.

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The Song of the Sea nominated for European Film Awards The animated film the Song of the Sea by Irish filmmaker Tomm Moore is one of the three nominees in the best animated film category for the European Film Awards. The Song of the Sea was co-produced in Belgium. Moore will give a workshop at the KLIK!

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Flemish documentary maker wins Rochester film festival prize Neerpelt resident Michiel Thomas recently won an award for the tenth time with his documentary 'Game Face'. He received the jury prize for best documentary at the Rochester Film Festival in New York.

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7 tips to become successful abroad What is the secret of Dutch artists and creatives who are successful abroad? While foreign success more or less 'happens' to one person, the other consciously chooses to seek out the foreign market.

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Film Fest Ghent offers a professional programme As is the annual tradition, all kinds of activities for and with film professionals take place during the Film Fest Ghent, with filmmakers Benny Vandendriessche, Manu Riche, Jeroen Perceval, Michaël R. Roskam and Caroline Strubbe, among others.

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