18-19.12.2004

Red House, Sofia

backup festival /Germany/
in Sofia

Students Film Forum Foundation is organizing a presentation of backup festival /new.media.in.film/ Weimar, Germany.
18. - 19. December at 18:00hr in Center for Culture and Debate - 15 Luben Karavelov Str. , Sofia.
The program includes a photo exhibition from the festival, two installations from the festival ‘loungelab’ and screenings of selected short films and music videos from the last edititions of backup. The official presentation will be hosted by Juliane Fuchs /festival director/, members of the organizing committee of backup and students from Bauhaus University, Weimar.

The event is co-organized by: Centre for Culture and Debate ‘Red House’ and Goethe Institut – Sofia.

08.12.2004

Sofia,
House of cinema,
19:00 h

Presentation of the awarded films from The 2. Interanational Students Festival of Film Art Balchik’04

Students Film Forum Foundation is pleased to invite you to Presentation of the awarded films from The 2. International Students Festival of Film Art Balchik’ 04
– under the patronage of the President of Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Georgi Parvanov,

Co-organizers: Ministry of Culture, ART FEST, Union of The Bulgarian Film Makers, Bulgarian National Radio

With the special support of:

12.11.2004
New Bulgarian University, Sofia
11:00h

Lecture of the world famous film producer & director Menahem Golan.

Students Film Forum, in co-operation with Embassy of Israel in Sofia and New Bulgarian University София /Film, TV & Show Busines Department/ , organized a lecture of the world famous film producer & director Menahem Golan, who was on a brief visit in Bulgaria on the occasion of the premiere of his last film Return to India.
In the full hall of NBU Menahem Golan gave worth advices to the Bulgarian film students, shared his own experience and told interesting stories from his long lasting work with the great stars of the world of cinema.
Mr. Golan spoke about his next film, which will be shot in Bulgaria, and some of the attendees had the luck directly to be included in the shooting team of the film.

backup opens with the selection of the best Bulgarian student films, which participated in the 2nd Int. Students Festival of Film Art (ISFFA) Balchik '04.

20:00h mon ami theatre
backup.forum Eastern Europe/ Bulgaria
The program consists: presentation of the biggest film event in Bulgaria in 2004 - 2nd Int. Students Festival of Film Art Balchik and representing the main activities of Students Film Forum Foundation (SFFF) - festival organizer.
Tsanko Vasilev, chairman of SFFF, personally will inform the guests of backup.forum Eastern Europe/ Bulgaria about the festival regulations and will invite them to take part in the next edition of ISFFA Balchik '05.

The next appearence of Students Film Forum Foundation in backup is on Saturday (09.10.) when there will be screened the selection of the best films, which were produced in the workshop of the 2nd Int. Students Festival of Film Art Balchik '04 - Johnnie Oddbal's 1st 48hr Film Challenge in Eastern Europe

Supported by:

backup festival, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Bulgarian Ministry of Culture

CONDEX - official importers of air-conditioning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD for Bulgaria

Students Film Forum Foundation is around Europe with a selection of the best Bulgarian student films, which participated in the festival in Balchik, and with a selection of the best films, which were produced in the workshop of the festival - Johnnie Oddbal's 1st 48hr Film Challenge in Eastern Europe

- Weimar - Potsdam - Berlin - Vienna - Budapest - Beograd -

Weimar >>
- VIP guests at backup festival 07. -10. October

Potsdam >>
- festival presentation at HFF 'Konrad Wolf'

Berlin >>
- festival presentation at The German Filmschool for digital production and Deutsche Film- u. Fernsehenakademie

Vienna >>

next presentation tours of Students Film Forum Foundation >>

- Great Britain - Spain - Israel -

The film forum took place in the architectural-park complex The Palace in Balchik from 21st till 26th September and became one of the most significant film events in Bulgaria in 2004.
More than 90 short films created by students from around the world were screened within the competition program, divided into three categories – feature, documentary and animation. Sixteen film academies from ten countries from three continents took part in the event, among them were LFS – London, United Kingdom; ”Camera Obscura” School of Arts – Tel Aviv, Israel; HFF “Konrad Wolf” - Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany; UCINE – Buenos Aires, Argentina; NFTS - Beaconsfield, United Kingdom; VGIK – Moscow, Russia.
About 100 short films were additionally demonstrated in five side programs, curated for the Festival by backup festival - Germany, Flow Distribution - Canada, The German Film School for digital production - Germany, Spark Video Canada, Center for Culture and Debate Red House – Bulgaria.
The awards were assigned by an international jury, consisting of seven members.
Official guests at the Festival were representatives of various Bulgarian cultural institutions and foreign diplomatic missions in Bulgaria, as well as major professionals of the Bulgarian arts and film branch.
As a workshop within the Festival was held the First ‘48hr Film Challenge’ in Eastern Europe. The event was hosted personally by Johnnie Oddball, the British film maker and producer – author of the initiative, whose visit to Bulgaria was sponsored by Students Film Forum Foundation, AMD and British Council in Sofia. In the ‘48hr Film Challenge’ in Balchik participated more than 130 young Bulgarian film makers.
There were detailed reports on the Festival in the Bulgarian public media, as well as in the specialized press (Kultura news paper, Kino magazine, Ekran magazine, LIK/BTA magazine), on the national radio stations /Bulgarian National Radio, Darik Radio/, on the major public TV stations in Bulgaria as well: Bulgarian National Television, BTV and Nova TV, which were media partners of the initiative.

Patron: The President of Republic of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov.

Co-organizers: Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, Bulgarian National Radio, Union ofthe Bulgarian Film Makers, Balchik Community, Boyana Film Studios;

Sponsors: Condex – official importers of air-conditioning Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD for Bulgaria, Atia Print, Fame Cards;

Official Transporter: Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ)

Supported by: NGF 13 Centuries Bulgaria, British Council in Sofia, The German Embassy in Sofia, The Embassy of Israel in Sofia, The Bulgarian Desk of MEDIA Program of the European Union, Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science as well Schering Bulgaria, Hewlett Packard Bulgaria, Nokia Bulgaria, Absolut Vodka Bulgaria and Albena Autotrans;

THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FESTIVAL

OF FILM ART

is under the patronage

of the President of Republic of Bulgaria Georgi Parvanov