Future projects for European Children’s film & new media worth 50 mill. € will be presented next week during BUFF Financing Forum in Malmö. 

BUFF Financing Forum 2010 for co-production of film, TV and New Media for a young audience is the forth in a row and takes place during the 27th BUFF Filmfestival. For three intensive days the international film industry, working with financing and production of Film, TV and New Media projects for children and youth gets together to explore future productions of moving images for a young audience. “For a long time, a meeting place in the North where film producers and financiers could meet to develop children and youth film was missing and we found that BUFF Filmfestival, with its solid reputation was the ideal frame for this kind of Forum” says Annette Brejner, Producer of BUFF:FF from the beginning, four years ago. 20 film-, TV and cross media projects in development from the leading producers of Northern Europe will be presented at the pitching event March 18^th for 17 international financiers and 120 professional observers. 
“The interest has been huge, which proofs that this Forum is much needed. This year we have as well opend for productions for new media – and we have realized, that the film- , gaming and other platform industry wants to meet, talk and benefit from each others different advantages. I hope we in the future shall see a lot of new highly profiled idea’s emerging from these meetings” says Annette Brejner further.Who is coming to BUFF:FF 2010?
You will be able to meet representatives from: Swedish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Danish Film Institute, DR TV, TV2 Denmark, SVT, NRK, ZDF/ Germany, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon-MTV Networks, Poem/Finland, Film 3 and FUZZ/Norway, Nordic Film and TV-Fond, Nordic Game Program, The Polish Filmmakers Association, MEDIA desks of Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands and Poland, Screen International, Film i Skåne, Media Evolution Malmö, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung/ MDM …. and more…
BUFF:FF Cross Media Innovation Hub in collaboration with Nordic Game Program. The Convergence UrgeInteractive experiences constitute a constantly expanding portion of our cross medial landscape.Games are no longer just a spin-off of films, books and television but a storytelling medium intheir own right. What lessons can be learned, and what pitfalls avoided, when merging new andtraditional media? Is the source material still the main focus or are games leading the way tonew audiences? 
And maybe most important of all, how do the recipients themselves perceive this balance?These reflections, posed by moderator and journalist Orvar Säfström, will be juggled through out the first editionof BUFF Financing Forum Cross Media Innovation Hub. 
From Film Director to Creative Game Lead:BUFF:FFs Cross Media Innovation Hub has in co-operation with Nordic Game Program invitedthe Swedish Film Director, Josef Fares and producer Mathias Gullbrandson to a discussion abouttheir collaboration on a new computer game – and about the transformation from film director to creative game lead.Later we focus on
 Visions and new ways: Public service and the future for Children entertainment, whenNils Stokke, head of Norwegian Broadcasting Company NRK’s children’s channel SUPER tells about theircross-media success: Superia.  For more information, please contact: Producer af BUFF:FF                                                                                              Annette Brejner M: +46 733 612 619annette.brejner@buff.se  

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BUFF, the International Children and Young People's Film Festival in Malmö, was founded in 1984 and is a non-profit organization. The aim was, and still is, to screen good films for children and young people as well as adults. A meeting place for people working with children, young people and film.


 

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Visit Sweden has done a series of short films where you can follw Dave Smith on his holiday in Southern Sweden.
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“Long Distance Love” won the Golden Starfish for best documentary yesterday at the 17th Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, NY.

The film is directed by Magnus Gertten and Elin Jonsson and produced by Magnus Gertten and Lennart Ström.

Alisher and Dildora are in love in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. To support his new family, Alisher is forced leave his new bride to try to make it big in Moscow. While the newlyweds earnest love has a sweetness stronger than their 3,500 mile divide, their relationship is now beset by challenges more dire than distance alone.
 

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The Turkish film “Güneşi Gördüm” (I Saw the Sun), written and directed by singer Mahsun Kırmızıgül, will represent Turkey in next year’s Academy Awards.

The film was chosen by a large majority of a 13-person selective committee among the ones released between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2009. It will be sent to the Academy as the candidate for nomination in the category of “Best Foreign Film.

Kırmızıgül, who is very pleased of his film’s success, said: “I thank millions of people who watched the film. It is very nice to be a nominee for the Oscar, but we have lots of things to do. This is just the beginning. We are aware of lobbies for Oscar nominations. This film tells the story of everyone in Turkey. This film belongs to each of us.”

Story of the film

The film’s theme is around Altun family. Haydar and Isa Altun arrive with their respective families in Istanbul, where they decide to stay. But Davut Altun, his wife and children set their sights further afield and travel on to Norway via Copenhagen and Malmö.

Spanning a period of 25 years, the film recounts the experiences of the three families as they struggle to find their feet in alien surroundings. It is a film that condemns all of discrimination or otherization and argues that war, fighting and contempt for anyone unlike oneself are the very problem itself.

 

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