Czech Film Springboard is composed in four parts:

• Pitching & Round Tables - Presentation of upcoming Czech films
• Who Is Who
• Funding News
• Preparation training (for Pitching & Round Tables projects)

Presentation of projects

Pitching & Round Tables (closed presentation and consultation)
Presentation of around 6 Czech projects in development. Selected projects are pitched to invited international experts from various areas of film industry by their producers and directors and later discussed individually at round tables with selected professionals.

The event is closed for public and accessible only for invited experts and presenters of the selected projects.

The ultimate goal is to draw attention of competent international experts to carefully selected Czech projects in various stages of development, and to give the projects a chance to test their viability.

Funding News
Friday, 24 September | 15:30-16:30
Kolektiv Hub, Kopeckého sady 329/8, 301 00 Plzeň
Moderator: Markéta Šantrochová (Czech Film Center)

Moderated discussion about funding opportunities and co-producing in Europe.

The representatives of national funds of Estonia or Latvia will give the short overviews, and answer your concrete questions on accessing financing in their countries.

Who Is Who
Friday, 24 September | 17:00-18:30
Kolektiv Hub, Kopeckého sady 329/8, 301 00 Plzeň
Moderator: Markéta Šantrochová (Czech Film Center)

Informal meeting with the invited foreign film industry experts. Representatives of co-production markets, financing platforms, festivals, training initiatives and sales agents present their activities. Open to all film professionals present at the festival.

The representatives of film festivals (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Riga IFF, Jerusalem Film Festival, New Horizons IFF, Cottbus Film Festival and Trieste FF, sales agents (Loco Films, Pluto Film, Cercamon and Film Republic), co-production markets (Connecting Cottbus, New Horizons or Crossroads), but also producers from Norway, Slovenia, Hungary or Romania will present their activities.

This year, the programme will be enriched by a Czech-German Panel (Sunday, 26 September | 18:00-20:00) - a panel on the future of Czech-German co-productions and current topics that are interesting for German film professionals and related co-productions with Czech filmmakers. Using the example of the co-produced film ‘Je suis Karl’, we will discuss the current needs and topics that unite film professionals in  both countries

List of projects selected for 2021 edition:

• Bears (Medvědi) - writer and director: Beata Parkanová, producers: Vojtěch Frič / love.FRAME
• Head Nurse (Sestra Hana) - writers: Jan Vejnar, Václav Hašek, director: Jan Vejnar, producer: Kamila Dohnalová / Last Films
• Invisible Loss (Neviditelná ztráta) - writer and director: Martin Pavol Repka, producer Václav Kadrnka / Sirius Films Manual
• Near / Far (Daleko / Blízko) - writer and director: Ondřej Erban, producer: Jakub Jíra / Shore Points
• Pig Slautghter (Mord) - writer and director: Adam Martinec, producer: Matěj Paclík / Breathless Films

List of experts

2020 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2020 projects HERE
List of experts (2020)

2019 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2019 projects HERE
List of experts (2019)

2018 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2018 projects HERE
List of experts (2018)

2017 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2017 projects HERE
List of experts (2017)

2016 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2016 projects HERE.
List of experts (2016)