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NewsLetter July 2010
Following is our report on the market, and the producers’ delegations to other countries that CoPro is putting together in the coming months.
The 12th CoPro Market
Over a seven day activity we hosted nearly fifty guests from abroad. You’re welcome to watch the market’s clip on our homepage.
Pitching
27 Israeli scripts in the development and production stages were pitched to a panel of 15 heads of foreign TV networks, 4 of which were made for the new media. Two thirds of the scripts received very favorable responses. The pitching session was followed by some 70 private meetings of the filmmakers with potential investors.
Foreseeable investment: NIS 3.5-4 million over the next year.
Close Encounters - Israeli and Foreign Producers Meet Up
The two large producers’ delegations that came from France and Poland were widely sponsored by film entities in their countries. The Polish delegation was sponsored by The Polish Film Council, The Krakow Foundation (marketing foundation), Polish Doc (marketing venture), The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and The Polish Institute of Culture in Tel Aviv. The French delegation was sponsored by TV FRANCE (film marketing) and The Polesudimage Regional Film Foundation.
39 scripts were pitched to 24 executive producers from France, Poland, Germany, UK and Canada. Having held some 120 meetings, the producers picked the Israeli scripts they were interested in, and are going to help the local producers find the funding. Since most of these producers are from countries Israel has entered a treaty with, it’s highly likely they will manage to get the film foundations in their countries to invest in Israeli films.
Investment forecast: Due to the novelty of such a large delegation, we can’t assess it at this stage.
Polish Pitching - Polish Filmmakers Pitch to Israeli Producers
9 Polish scripts were pitched to 10 TV and film foundation executives. It’s the second year CoPro facilitates such an event wherein producers from countries Israel has a treaty with pitch to Israeli investors who would, potentially, become their associates, provide them with production services and eventually prove to be strategic partners who bring their overseas-acquired know-how and contacts to the mix.
DocuShuk
128 finished films were pitched to 12 TV procurers, 2 European market heads and one curator. 113 private screenings took place in two days.
Sales anticipated at NIS 800,000-1,000,000.
Import-Export Workshops
Two leading market heads in Europe presented their market practices, and also met with local producers to discuss their projects. Polish delegates described the industry in their country.
Tribute to the Polish Documentary Making
In honor of the upcoming finalization of the Polish-Israeli treaty, CoPro held a tribute to the Polish contemporary documentary making at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. The films are now being screened in cinematheques around Israel.
The CoPro Guide
The 2010 edition of CoPro’s bi-annual guide to raising funds and international festivals, published by Asia Publishers, is now available in all bookstores.
For more information go to CoPro Guide on our homepage.
Presentation of co-productions with Israel at the Krakow Festival, June 2-7, 2010
Prompted by CoPro, the Krakow Festival held a tribute to the Israeli film industry. A delegation of Israeli producers and filmmakers were invited over to a panel on Israeli documentary making. CoPro held a presentation on documentary co-productions with Israel.
Regional Initiative - CoPro’s Delegation to Greece in Early July
CoPro were invited to take part in Story Doc, a regional project involving Greece, Italy, Palestine and Israel, sponsored by the European Union. 5 Israeli filmmakers were invited to the Corfu workshop, all expenses paid.
CoPro’s Delegation to Sheffield - November 2010
Meetmarket’s Richard Philip’s visit here begot a new initiative - a delegation of Israeli producers to go to Sheffield. Producers are invited to submit their projects no later than September 1, 2010.
For more information go to Producers’ Delegation to Sheffield on our homepage.
Cordially,
Orna Yarmut and the CoPro staff
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We’re two months away from the annual co-productions market and the buzz is already in the air.
So here’s a little taste:
THE MAIN PITCHING
With all the responses from the international lectors having been weighed, the 24 projects to be pitched in the main pitching event had been selected. We wish them all the best of luck. The chosen projects are particularly symbolic of the frame of mind as to the international interest in Israeli documentaries.
For the list of the films, themes and makers please go to:
http://copro.co.il/he/Article.asp?id=134
We would love to get your comments to the following email address:
producer@copro.co.il
MASTER CLASS
On March 23-25 we shall officially start our individual guidance and training for each of the 24 projects selected for the pitching session. The master class is sponsored by the EC Commission to Israel in association with the Tel-Aviv Goethe Institute which will also host them. The delegates of the selected projects will be meeting with international experts who will review the selected projects, comment and recommend future comprehensive improvements to each project in terms of script structure, characters and conflicts, future pitching, trailers and new-media applications.
The workshops’ instructors this year are:
Martina Zoellner - SWR network, Germany. Head of the arts department for SWR, the second largest TV station within the ARD, Germany’s public TV.
Cecilia Linden - Head of the European Documentary Network.
Caspar Sonnen-Doc Lab/IDFA, Amsterdam. Works for IDFA since 2005 where he had set up the new media and department and the web documentary channel IDFA TV. In 2007 he instigated the DOC LAB program to promote new formats of documentary work.
CoPro is the first foundation to have promoted new media projects. This year the filmmakers will be advised as to how to have their projects developed for other platforms, too, as the time calls for.
DOCUSHUK
The DocuShuk guest list is coming together fast!
We extend the submission of films to the DocuShuk untill April 8, 2010.
As you well know, the genre’s envelope keeps expanding and we follow it. This year we’re upgrading accordingly by adding, on top of the classic scopes, a special video art/video dance category which has shared properties with documentation.
We would also like to remind you that we’re introducing a Happy Hour (as practiced in foreign markets) for the first time, as part of the DocuShuk setup, in a less formal atmosphere but no less business like, with wine and refreshments, for the buyers and filmmakers to mingle and chat.
ENROLLMENT TO STORYDOC EXTENDED TO THIS MONTH:
CoPro calls upon filmmakers to submit projects with intrinsic connection to the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin. Of all the chosen projects, 5 Israeli ones will win full financing of their participation in the Corfu, Greece, workshop. Also, the best project of all the chosen ones shall win a grant to participate in the Documentary Campus pitching in Leipzig, in October 2010.
For more details for submission go to:
http://copro.co.il/he/Article.asp?id=145
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS - THE POLISH DELEGATION
As is our practice, we have published a callout in the selected treaty state inviting foreign producers to present documentary projects to the Israeli industry. This year we have received an unprecedented number of 64 proposals. The prosperity in Polish documentary making is indeed evident and CoPro is happy to take part in the process and harness it for the benefit of collaboration with the Israeli documentary industry. The projects were handed to Israeli lectors who will choose the 8 finalists. This year’s delegation is sponsored in association with The Delegation of the European Commission, The Polish Film Institute, The Krakow Foundation, The Krakow Film Festival, The Polish Institute in Tel Aviv and The Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
The makers of those films will come here to present their projects to Israeli producers and representatives of various networks within the market of co-productions for the promotion of collaborations and associations.
CoProMMunity
The financial-market workshops to hunt for fresh contents - on their way.
The first workshops this month were held at the WIZO Haifa, El-Mannar Taibe, Tel Hai, Sapir and The Emek Hayarden colleges. Already in the first cycle we have discovered quality and promising contents with international context. CoPro will host those students at its annual market of co-productions and will go on encouraging fresh graduates to submit promising and refreshing projects that ensure debuting filmmakers to take their place beside experienced directors and for diverse content from the periphery.
COPRO CONGRATULATES THE MAKERS OF THE FILMS PRODUCED WITH THE FOUNDATION’S SPONSORSHIP AND WHICH MADE IT TO THE COMING ISRAELI FESTIVAL OF DOCUMENTARIES - DOCAVIV.
”Israel Ltd”
Director:
Mor Loushy
Producers:
Ronen Ben Tal, Daniel Sivan
”My name is Ahlam” / ”The White Hall”
Director: Rima Essa
Producer: Claudia Levin
”Thieves By Law”
Director: Alexander Gentelev
Producer: Simone Baumann, Sasha Klein
”The electrck mind”
Director & Producer:Nadav Harel
”Blood Relation”
Director: Noa Ben Hagai
Producer: Elinor & Edna Kowarsky
Happy Pesach
Happy Easter !!!
The CoPro Team.
CoPro’s Newsletter // February 2010
Submission of new proposals for the new media pitching session ended March. 07, 2010.
Attached please find a link to ”boost your appetite”.
The interesting projects within the IDFA Lab:
http://www.doclab.org
The CoPro foundation sees fit to nurture new-media projects and highlight to the makers the so longed for climax meeting of first class documentary contents and its financial implementation the new media has to offer.
CoPro invites Israeli filmmakers to submit their documentaries to a European project:
Storydoc
Submission deadline: March 30, 2010. Guidelines are posted on CoPro’s website.
A call to filmmakers to submit projects with an intrinsic context to the Middle East and the Mediterranean Basin.
Of all the chosen projects, 5 Israeli projects will be given full funding of the workshop to take place in Corfu, Greece, July 5-7, 2010.
Also, the best project of all the chosen ones shall win a grant to participate in the Documentary Campus pitching in Leipzig, in October 2010.
The workshop is a joint initiative of:
EDN - European Documentary Network;
The Greek Film Centre;
SKY - The Greek TV Network;
Anemon Productions, Athens;
Documentary Campus, Germany;
ESODOC, Italy;
Documentary Film Advisor Tue Steen Muller is the syllabus coordinator and the workshop’s co-director with Cecilia Linden, head of EDN,
and producer Rea Apostolides from Anemon Productions, Greece.
DocuShuk
Last date for submission to DocuShuk: Thur., March 18, 2010.
The DocuShuk, held as usual as part of the Israeli Market of International Co-Productions to be held May 24-30, 2010, will host buyers and festival directors from local and international TV networks. A catalog of the best of Israeli documentaries in recent years is put together by the Copro Foundation and sent to the prospective buyers about a month beforehand. The catalog is published in English and contains all the information a buyer should have, including film synopses and contact info. Once in Israel, the buyers spend two whole days watching the films in hospitable private booths.
DocuShuk responds to the growing interest in Israeli documentaries. It is a platform that assists filmmakers, producers and distributors in promoting their films abroad.
Copro is a non-commercial entity that voluntarily acts as a go-between makers and broadcasters, with one aim at heart - to promote sales of Israeli documentaries.
This year at the DocuShuk we’re introducing Happy Hour, much the same as in the foreign markets. In an informal atmosphere, with drinks and refreshments, but still doing business!!!
CoProMmunity
Coming up: Financial-market workshops on the hunt for fresh contents in the periphery.
The first workshops will be held at the Sapir, Tel-Hai and WIZO Haifa colleges, taking on a format of talent scouting, i.e. hunting for tomorrow’s filmmakers and nurturing them into actually work in the periphery.
Diversity and novelty are essential in the safeguard of any relationship, as well as sustaining veteran filmmakers. Copro is committed to promoting young filmmakers with different outlooks, thus ensuring fresh and innovative filmmaking for many years to come. Reaching out to film students from the periphery who wish to get a foothold in the Israeli documentary making and become a part of it, steer the international buyer in the direction of Israel outside of Tel-Aviv, and thus ensures his continuous fascination and collaboration.
The CoPro Guide
The 4th edition of the Copro Datafest Guide is scheduled to come out by the end of February. The 2010 edition is edited by Yoram Shefer, in association with the Rabinowitz Foundation for Arts, with cooperation of the Foreign Ministry and published by Asia publishing house. The guide provides all the information an independent filmmaker needs to have. The Hebrew edition lists all the important festivals around the globe, international foundations and all their contact details, in a user friendly manner.
Detailed instructions for entering the different categories are posted on our website: www.copro.co.il
Good Luck !!!
The CoPro Team.
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CoPro’s Newsletter // January 2010
The Submission for CoPro’s 2010 pitching is completed
Outstanding in variety and value this year, but no apparent leading trend. Ca 150 projects pitched.
New and experienced filmmakers side by side.
The hegemony of politics and religion was well represented, as well as a variety of subjects such as nature, the environment, arts, and last but not least, and true to form, the classic documentation of humanity and human rights, all intertwined and connected.
We took pleasure in receiving projects that challenge the cinematographic language, animated documentary, documentary series and traditional features. They all have their place. We look forward to more pleasant surprises hat the next pitching - for the new media (21.2.2010) already challenging in itself, will bring in.
The projects are already on their way to the various international lectors. We wonder how they’re doing and wish them all ”Good Luck”.
Winners of the 2010 DocEUmmunity Award sponsored by The European Commission in Israel
It is CoPro’s tradition that every year we give two documentaries that were shown in one of the market’s platforms a present of Arabic subtitles (translation & print). True to our creed of social commitment and the bond between artists and their community, especially among low-income cultural enclaves, the winning films will get translated and subtitled into Arabic as a present from CoPro, and be shown, just once, to small communities.
We hope that having translated the films into Arabic will open them to wider distribution venues, for the sake of cultural dialogue, and wish their makers all the best in seeking new markets.
The 2010 winning projects are:
Israel Ltd., directed by Mor Lushi, produced by Danial Syvan and Ronen Ben-Nathan.
Nine Years Later, directed by Yifat Keidar and Sheey Ezuz, produced by Eden Productions.
The 2010 Close Encounters channel hosts a delegation of Polish producers
CoPro believes that the best way to nurture and maintain rewarding and long-lasting relationships is by keeping up mutuality. In this spirit, each year CoPro hosts a delegation of producers from a country that had signed a filmmaking collaboration treaty with Israel. Producers of the Polish delegation will meet privately with Israeli producers to explore possible cooperation for both Israeli and Polish projects.
The 2010 Close Encounters channel will hold a pitching session for the Polish producers to pitch the projects to enter the 2010 Market to Israeli networks and producers.
The invitation to the Polish producers is posted on CoPro’s website.
CoProMMunity
Renovation and versatility are the building blocks of any relationship, especially when it comes to supporting seasoned filmmakers. CoPro is committed to promoting young and inexperienced filmmakers who see things differently, as a promise of many years to come of freshness and modernity in the documentary industry.
Reaching out and working with filmmaking students from the periphery who wish for a foothold in the Israeli documentary industry in a hope to become an integral part of it, bring the foreign procurers to get to know the ”other” Israel, the one outside of Tel-Aviv, thereby ensuring their ongoing interest and collaboration.
To promote new works by the said students, CoPro opens a new channel for them. We shall hold an extensive workshop where we’ll map out the local and international documentary market and the options open to the graduating students with the foundation’s aid.
In every such channel CoPro sees a long-reaching statement of intents, extending the foundations for the Israeli documentary market, and sees a future value in every step. A value to manifest itself over time and be put to the test in the quality of the inter-national collaborations that CoPro is a party to.
Please note the following deadlines for submitting to the 2010 market
New Media submission deadline: Sun., Feb. 21, 2010.
Pitching New Media projects to a panel of website content editors, TV New Media editors and other investors.
DocuShuk submission deadline: Thu., March 18, 2010.
DocuShuk - Audiovisual market of completed films, held as part of the co-productions market. The films are viewed in private booths by local and overseas TV procurers and festival directors. The DocuShuk will end in a HappyHour, for the pitchers and procurers to socialize.
Close Encounters channel submission deadline: Wed., April 7, 2010.
A designated panel of foreign producers picks scripts out of a catalog of Israeli documentaries in various stages of production, which are partially funded by local broadcasters and foundations, and whose makers seek inter-national co-production. When a producer so wishes, CoPro sets up a meeting with the filmmaker.
Detailed instructions for entering the different categories are posted on our website
Good Luck !!!
The CoPro Team.
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