Stort’ – by Joris Hoebe, The Netherlands

Silent Consent - by Alessandro Bianco, Italy

Tripe and Onions – by Márton Szirmai, Hungary

Brei Brumm Bumm (Mash goes Splash) – by Elise Klement, Germany

A film From my Parish – by Tony Donoghue, Ireland

For All the Tea in England – Kerry Mcleod, UK

Pogacha – by Balint Mark Turi, Hungary

Pasta Day – by Elizabeth Rocha Salgado, The Netherlands

Fish Eye – by Margot Buff, Czech Republic

Semolina Halva – by Ezgi Kaplan, Turkey

Cum Pane – by Anne Linder, Sweden

Tropezones – by David Macian & Eduardo Molinari, Spain

Devouring Reality – Melissa Suarez del Real, Spain

Sa Cage – by Luz Diaz, Belguim

The Market – by Ana Husman, Croatia

Cravings – by Andreas Lindergard, Sweden

Ma petite cuisine – by Maryline Poux, France

La Torta – by Stefan Archetti, Italy

Mc Russia – by Andrei Tanase, Georgy Groshkov & Florian Krebs (Romania, Bulgaria and Germany)

Apple & Ei – by Ahmet Tas, Germany

Congratulation! For more information about the Matter of Taste project visit its official website: www.matteroftaste.eu

The 15 jury members announced the results the 22nd of November 2008 during the 4th edition of the One Take Film Festival in Zagreb (Croatia). The 3 European winners will have their scripts produced with the support of NISI MASA. They will also participate to the master class “European Short Pitch” in February 2009 at the Moulin d’Andé – Céci (France), the Centre for Film Writing.

And the winners are:

Scamps
Ülkü Oktay – Turkey

The Wedding Tape
Ariel Shaban – Kosovo

Furniture
Melissa Suárez del Real- Spain

Congratulation to the winners!

more info: www.nisimasa-scriptcontest.eu

The aim is to develop a European production of short film through promotion of projects starting from the phase of writing, by meetings between scriptwriters/directors and producers on the European level.

Deadline for application is the 31st of October 2008.

Applications – to be sent at joanna@nisimasa.com – should include:

-a CV
-a motivation letter
-the application form filed (attached)
-a script (maximum 20 000 characters).

As the organizers say:”if you have a very good short film project you would like to develop, “European Short Pitch” is for you!

Find more info on Nisi Masa’s home page!

For this 7th edition, the new theme is: Escape.

The contest is open to every youngster from 18 to 28, living in one of the organising countries. Each participant must write a short-film script of 20,000 characters maximum on the assigned theme, in one of the official languages of the contest.

In January~February 2009 the three new awarded scriptwriters plus 12 of the European finalists, will be invited by NISI MASA to take part in «European Short Pitch», a scriptwriting workshop organised at the Moulin d’Andé~Céci in France, followed by pitching sessions in front of European producers.
Then, the 3 European winners will be supported by NISI MASA in the production and distribution of their films.
From the script to the screen, NISI MASA is keen on contributing to the development and circulation of innovative short films from all over Europe.

All information about the contest can be found here:

http://www.nisimasa-scriptcontest.eu/

Application Deadline:
31. July 2008

Our friends (Nisi Masa, Moviement) launched a very interesting project indeed. If you are fancy to make a documentary on and about the Russian railways, apply to CineTrain workshop, and cross this enormous country with your camera!

Organising an itinerant cinema event; NISI MASA old-timers have been nurturing this crazy idea ever since the origins of the network. It took the arrival of the Russian association Moviement, for the dream to become reality. Our enthusiastic Moscow-based colleagues intend to bring up-to-date a unique working method, invented by Russian documentary filmmakers in the 1930s. It was called the ‘Cine-Train’.

Film crews, under the guidance of Aleksandr Medvedkin, used to travel through the Soviet Union in specially equipped wagons. Although they were filming the industrial achievements of the regime, the underlying goal was to give the power of speech to people who didn’t normally have the opportunity to get their voices heard.

In 2008, the international workshop will hopefully ensure the legacy of this spirit, but will focus its interest on the notion of borders. “Did we just cross the European border?” 18 young filmmakers will constantly ask themselves along the 9 302 km of the mythic Trans-Siberian railroad track. Where does Europe ‘end’? What concrete expressions or feelings of this border can be found? From Moscow to Vladivostok, NISI MASA and Moviement want to offer the participants (rallied into 6 shooting crews) the possibility to answer these questions in a stimulating atmosphere, supported with professional tutors, far away from clichés and preconceived ideas.

A three-week adventure, this Euro-Asian workshop planned for September 2008 certainly is an ambitious project, supported by the European Cultural Foundation and the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the 6th Vladivostok International Film Festival.

CineTrain is going to be held from 1th September to 21th September.
Application deadline: 31th of March

Preparatory films should be uploaded onto Daazo!

For further infos visit:

http://www.moviement.livejournal.com/

http://www.nisimasa.com