Future Frames, a program for up-and-coming European filmmakers, is celebrating its tenth anniversary at Karlovy Vary Film Festival subsequent week. Thus far, 104 filmmakers from 29 European nations have taken half. Its alumni have gone on to direct options which have appeared at main festivals worldwide.
The initiative, which is organized by European Film Promotion and Karlovy Fluctuate, offers filmmakers the chance to current their quick movies at this prestigious A-list pageant, and helps them construct a world community.
4 years after his participation within the Future Frames program, Adam Martinec from the Czech Republic returns to Karlovy Fluctuate together with his first full-length movie “Our Beautiful Pig Slaughter,” which is screening within the Crystal Globe competitors.
Different administrators have been profitable too with their first or second feature-length movies, reminiscent of Halfdan Olav Ullman Tøndel from the primary Future Frames group, whose debut movie “Armand” was offered with the Digital camera d’Or at this yr’s Cannes.
Italian filmmaker Hleb Papou (Future Frames, 2018) was awarded greatest rising director on the 2021 Locarno Pageant for his function movie debut “The Legionnaire,” which is predicated on his eponymous quick movie from 2018. Patrick Vollrath’s debut movie “7500” obtained the Austrian Movie Award for greatest screenplay and greatest supporting actor in 2021. Ninna Pálmadóttir’s debut function movie, “Solitude,” premiered within the Discovery program on the 2023 Toronto Movie Pageant, whereas Michal Blasko’s debut movie “Sufferer” had its world premiere within the Horizons part of the 2022 Venice Movie Pageant.
After Anna Curler’s extremely acclaimed debut function “Lifeless Women Dancing,” which had its world premiere on the 2023 Tribeca Movie Pageant, the German director (Future Frames, 2019) is now capturing the movie “Allegro Pastell,” based mostly on the eponymous novel by Leif Randt.
Swedish Pupil Oscar winner Jonatan Etzler (Future Frames, 2019) is following the Netflix comedy “One Extra Time” together with his subsequent movie “Unhealthy Apples,” starring Saoirse Ronan, whereas the Luxembourgish director Eileen Byrne’s debut function “Marianengrab,” starring Luna Wedler, can be launched in cinemas this autumn. Dutch filmmaker Stijn Bouma’s debut “The Hunt of Meral Ö” can also be as a result of be launched within the autumn.
Different administrators proceed to concentrate on the quick movie style, reminiscent of David Pinheiro Vicente from Portugal (Future Frames, 2018), whose quick movie “Lamb of God” was screened within the quick movie competitors on the Cannes Pageant in 2020 and has been nominated for quite a few prizes and gained a number of awards.
Poland’s Jakub Radej (Future Frames, 2018) scored a serious success together with his quick movie “Followers. Reside Taking pictures,” which obtained the Particular Award on the forty seventh Polish Movie Pageant in Gdynia in 2022. Lun Sevnik from the Czech Republic (Future Frames, 2019) gained the PAG Jury Award at this yr’s Trieste Movie Pageant for his quick movie “The Sea in Between.”
A fruitful EFP cross-program success story is the collaboration between the Spanish filmmaker collective (Juno Álvarez, Yaiza de Lamo, Maria Lorente, Mariona Vázquez) with the Spanish Producer on the Transfer of 2017, Carlo D’Ursi: they met in 2020 as part of the Future Frames program and their newest joint movie “The Revolution of Muses, or Learn how to Pose Bare on Some Rocks” can be premiered on the Atlantida Movie Fest on Mallorca.
Belgian director and cinematographer Karen Vázquez Guadarrama (Future Frames, 2016), who directed one episode of final yr’s Canneseries award-winning documentary sequence “Draw for Change,” is at present writing the screenplay for her new fiction function “Pantano de Aves,” which she’s going to produce with this yr’s Producer on the Transfer from Belgium, Elisa Heene. Constanze Klaue will produce her function debut “Punching the World” with Alexander Wadouh, a Producer on the Transfer of 2022.
Particulars of this yr’s Future Frames individuals will be discovered here.
EFP’s president and head of the Czech Movie Heart, Markéta Šantrochová, says: “Future Frames has grown into a strong business program. With the help worldwide lottery firm Allwyn, we’ve just lately added a transatlantic factor, bringing U.S. brokers to Karlovy Fluctuate and providing one filmmaker a month-long scholarship in L.A. This evolution displays our dedication to nurturing the following technology of European filmmakers.ˮ
Karlovy Fluctuate inventive director Karel Och provides: “Let’s have fun collectively the creativity of up-and-coming European filmmakers and their dedication to bringing extra empathy by way of artwork to this complicated world.ˮ
Pavel Turek, Allwyn’s chief officer of world model, company communication, and CSR, says: “Future Frames has an actual influence and drives generational change by serving to aspiring filmmakers understand their full potential.”
Selection is Future Frames’ media companion.
