Czech Film Springboard is composed in four parts:

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

2025 Programme

Friday, September 26

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm / MĚŠŤANSKÁ BESEDA
CZECH FILM SPRINGBOARD – FUNDING NEWS WITH EURIMAGES

Moderator: Markéta Šantrochová (Czech Film Center)

Moderated discussion on financing opportunities for film projects and co-productions through the Eurimages program. Iris Cadoux, representative of Eurimages, will present how the Co-production Support and new Film Marketing and Audience Development Support subprograms work.

Open for the following accreditations: Guest, Press, Film Student.
Language: English

Saturday, September 27

9:15 am – 10:50 am / MĚŠŤANSKÁ BESEDA
CZECH FILM SPRINGBOARD – WHO IS WHO?
CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA NEWS

Moderator: Markéta Šantrochová (Czech Film Center)

Informal meeting with the invited foreign film industry experts. The representatives of film festivals (Giornate degli Autori, Riga IFF, Gijon FF, Thessaloniki IFF, Trieste Film Festival, D'a – Barcelona Film Festival, Crossing Europe, Cottbus Film Festival), co-production markets and industry forums (Connecting Cottbus, New Horizons), sales (Films Boutique, Reason8, Film Republic a Pluto Film), training programme (MIDPOINT Institute), as well as the regional fund Hessen Film&Medien and producers from Estonia, the Netherlands, and Slovenia will present their activities.

Vladimíra Chytilová will present the latest news from the Creative Europe MEDIA program.

Open for the following accreditations: Guest, Press, Film Student.
Language: English

11:00 am – 5:00 pm / MĚŠŤANSKÁ BESEDA
CZECH FILM SPRINGBOARD – PITCHING & ROUND TABLES

Czech Film Springboard is an industry programme organised by the Czech Audiovisual Fund/Czech Film Center in cooperation with Finále Plzeň film festival since 2016.

A closed presentation of Czech fiction projects in early 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.

By invitation only (for experts and project holders).
Language: English

Projects selected for 2025 edition

• No Salvation Coming (Ze dna), Vojtěch Strakatý (writer and director),  Jan Čadek, Ondřej Lukeš / Beginner's Mind
• Happy End (Happy End), Ondřej Erban (director), Barbora Námerová (writer), Tomáš Hrubý, Hana Šormová / nutprodukce
• To Move Mountains (Přenášet hory), Anna Wowra, Vojtěch Novotný (writers, directors), Tomáš Hrubý, Hana Šormová / nutprodukce
• Eli and Them (Eli a oni), Petr Pylypčuk (writer and director), Kryštof Burda / Perfilm
• Dead Mountain (Mrtvá hora), Cristina Groșan (director), Cristina Groșan, Loïc Barrère (writers), Marek Novák / Xova Film

Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2025 projects HERE.
List of experts for 2025 edition HERE.

 

Previous editions

2024 – details
Read the articles about Czech Film Springboard 2024 HERE (Part I) and HERE (Part II)
List of experts (2024)

2023 – details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2023 projects HERE
List of experts (2023)

2022 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2022 projects HERE
List of experts (2022)

2021 - details
Read the article about Czech Film Springboard 2021 projects HERE
List of experts (2021)

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)