Bogota - Gonzalo Escobar Mora's short film 'POOL VERSION' playing in Bogoshorts Film Festival →

Gonzalo Escobar Mora's graduation film.factory film, POOL VERSION, will screen as part of the BogotShorts Film Festival this month (info via links below). Bogoshorts is the largest short film festival in Colombia. Gonzalo will be present for Q&A at the screening.

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BogoShorts Programme and Info

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Emma Rozanski's debut feature, Papagajka, now available to watch online

After its premiere at SXSW Film Festival a couple of years ago and subsequent festival screenings around the globe, you can now watch Emma Rozanski's debut feature film PAPAGAJKA (aka The Parrot) online.

UK/Europe - Watch here on Amazon: http://amzn.eu/1GdeXh7 (Amazon On Demand and Prime)

USA - Watch here: http://a.co/bxM8WgR (Via Amazon.com Prime and Amazon Video on Demand)

Canada/USA - also Watch here: https://www.fandor.com/films/parrot_papagajka
(Subscription based, but free trials are available)

Rest of the world - If you have an Amazon.com or an  account you can watch via the links above in many countries not just UK/USA (Sadly not her home country of Australia just yet).

Keep up to date on other availability here:

https://www.facebook.com/PapagajkaFilm/

Go forth, watch and enjoy!

HORTA - short doc by Pilar Palomero @Doclisboa 2017

Pilar Palomero's short documentary, HORTA, will premiere in competition at DocLisboa October 2017.

Details: http://www.doclisboa.org/2017/filmes/horta/

Watch Emma Rozanski's debut feature in North America on @Fandor

Emma Rozanski's debut feature film, PAPAGAJKA (SXSW Premiere), is now available to watch on VOD via FANDOR in Canada and the USA.

You can watch if you are a subscriber of Fandor, via Apple TV, or you can sign up for a free trial subscription (there are loads of amazing movies on the platform so it's well worth a try)

Here's the link to @Fandor: 

Emma Rozanski's PAPAGAJKA awarded at The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival

Congratulations to Emma Rozanski, whose debut feature film, PAPAGAJKA, has been awarded several prizes at The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival:

Best Narrative Feature Film

Best Director, Emma Rozanski

Best Cinematography, Malte Rosenfeld

Best Actress, Susanna Cappellaro

http://www.massiff.org/

Stefan Malešević news

An update on the film happenings of our Stefan Malešević: 

In May, Gora, a 78min documentary shot in Kosovo, won the Best Camera award and Best Film award at the BelDocs international film festival in Belgrade.

In August, Gora was screened at DokuFest in Prizren, where it got a Special Mention from the BalkanDox jury.

In August, Stefan was a member of the jury for documentaries at the Montenegro Film Festival in Herceg Novi.

Four Bistrik7 films in The Slow Short Film Festival

Slow cinema at its best!

Four of our filmmakers - Gonzalo Escobar Mora, Aleksandra Niemczyk, Pilar Palomero and Graeme Cole - have short films playing at The Slow Short Film Festival right now:

https://slowshortfilmfestival.com/

Bistrik7 Sarajevo Film festival Screenings 2017

- 15th of August is the premiere of Aleksandra Niemczyk's new short film "Investigations of a dog" during Sarajevo Film Festival in BiH Section.

https://films.sff.ba/en/detail/?film=Investigations-of-a-Dog

Aleksandra Niemczyk's adaptation of 'King Ubu' premieres in Croatia

Saturday the 12th of August is the premiere of Aleksandra Niemczyk's adaptation of "King Ubu" a play by Alfred Jarry - in 21 Contemporary Theater Festival Zadar, Croatia.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1377464075700784/?acontext=%7B%22action_history%22%3A%22[%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22page%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22page_upcoming_events_card%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A[]%7D]%22%2C%22has_source%22%3Atrue%7D

Emma Rozanski's Papagajka screening in MA, USA

In August, Emma Rozanski's debute feature film PAPAGAJKA will play in The Massachusetts Independent Film Festival...

WHEN: SAT August 26th
WHERE: The Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
TICKETS & INFO:
http://www.massiff.org/films2017http://www.massiff.org/films2017

Anton Petersen's BALADA now playing on VOD

Anton Petersen's film, Balada, is now playing VOD here: 

https://tao-films.com/film/494aba64-5393-43d9-873a-90d004ed1813

Go forth and watch it!

UK Premiere of Papagajka at East End Film Festival

Emma Rozanski's feature debut, Papagajka, will have its UK premiere in London at the East End Film Festival - she and some cast and crew will also be there for a Q&A afterwards.

Where: The Rio Cinema, Dalston E8

When SAT June 17th 3:45pm

Screening details: http://www.eastendfilmfestival.com/programme-archive/papagajka/

Tickets: https://riocinema.org.uk/RioCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=9428549

STEFAN MALEŠEVIĆ set to shoot this winter in Bosnia and Herzegovina

-Mamonga, Stefan's first fiction feature, is in pre-production - A three-part film, set in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. Shooting starts on winter in Tuzla, Bosnia. The project was selected for Kino Der Kunst Project Pitch in Munich, part of the film festival by the same name, held this April, where 8 alumni of European film academies have been selected to compete for the main prize (post-production funding by ARRI), awarded by the jury presided by Doryun Chong, main curator of M+ museum in Hong Kong.

The festival will also screen his short film "The Bucket Rider" as a part of their official program. 

Apichatpong Weerasethakul interview with Gonzalo Escobar Mora in Colombia

Cartegena Film Festival recently held a retrospective of the work of Bistrik7's film.factory teacher and mentor Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Gonzalo Escobar Mora, who was also screening work in the festival, took the opportunity to catch up with him and also filmed an interview with him for Fandor.

Here it is:

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL EXPLAINS HIMSELF

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/apichatpong-weerasethakul-explains

Anton Petersen to shoot new feature in autumn

Anton Petersen has bee selected to receive fund from the Faroe Islands National Film Fund for his new feature project, and will be filming this upcoming fall in the Faroes.

Stefan Malešević NEWS - screenings and development

STEFAN MALEŠEVIĆ's feature-length documentary, GORA, will be screened at the BelDocs festival in Belgrade in May.

Stefan is also developing his next two documentary projects - 'Gone with the Southern Wind', about the rise and fall of the most popular Yugoslav band, called the Southern Wind (Južni Vetar) - and a film about the peculiar Bektashi Islamic sect in Macedonia and Albania.

Pilar Palomero's film, the night of all things, playing at festivals....

Pilar Palomero's film, The Night of all things, will we playing in the following festivals (in march and april): 

Lucca Film Festival (Italy)
Philosophical Film Festival (Macedonia)
부산국제단편영화제 Busan International Short Film Festival (Corea)
Euregion Shorts (Netherlands)

watch the trailer:

https://vimeo.com/164833737

New review of Aleksandra Niemczyk's film CENTAUR

New review of Aleksandra Niemczyk's film CENTAUR:

http://www.worldcinemaguide.com/centaur/

Gonzalo Escobar Mora's 'pool version' screens FICCI Cartagena

Gonzalo Escobar Mora's short film (a Bosnian/Colombian co-production) POOL VERSION screens this week in South America's oldest film festival, FICCI, in Cartagena Colombia.

Info and screenings: https://tinyurl.com/zr4ycur

The festival is also paying tribute to one of our film.factory teachers/mentors, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (http://www.kickthemachine.com): http://ficcifestival.com/pelicula.php?p=XG3C6fwmZmJn9egB1nwASvgCXG3C6fwm