Our concept

First Cut+ is a program launched in 2020 for boosting the promotion & audience engagement strategies of feature films that previously took part in a First Cut Lab workshop.

First Cut+ operates twice a year, working in close cooperation with two dynamic and well-established film industry platforms: Trieste’s When East Meets West and Karlovy Vary IFF’s Eastern Promises. Each year a portfolio of 16 feature films is promoted: 8 films during the winter session at Trieste’s When East Meets West, and 8 films during the summer session at Karlovy Vary IFF’s Eastern Promises Industry Days.

Participating projects benefit from lectures and individual mentoring consultations on promotion, marketing, PR & press, festivals, and sales strategy from various film industry consultants.

This is followed by a works-in-progress organized under the ‘First Cut+’ label, open to selected decision makers (sales agents & distributors, festivals’ programmers, etc). At each session, a jury awards the TRT Prize to one of the films – a cash award of 5 000 Euros sponsored by the Turkish public broadcaster.

Amongst the 48 feature films that have already participated over 3 years, previous First Cut+ projects include: Listen by Ana Rocha de Sousa (Lion of the Future for Best Debut Feature, Venice 2020); Brother’s Keeper by Ferit Karahan (Fipresci Prize, Berlinale 2021); Immaculat by Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark (Lion of the Future for Best Debut Feature, Venice 2021); 107 Mothers by Peter Kerekes (Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay, Venice 2021); A Piece of Sky by Michael Koch (Silver Bear – Special Mention, Berlinale 2022).

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First Cut+ partners with Cinemarket

Jul 6, 2020

First Cut+ and Cinemarket have just concluded a strategic partnership which aims to facilitate the access to market to the participants willing to join the platform. Cinemarket is a B2B digital film market focused on arthouse films around the world. It’s the only...

A new award for First Cut+ Karlovy Vary

Jun 30, 2020

On July 9th 2020, at the end of the second session of First Cut+ at Karlovy Vary IFF Eastern Promises, the winner of a brand-new award will be revealed. Three companies have joined forces to offer the First Cut+ Award to one of the 8 selected projects, consisting in...

Coming up: Four summer workshops and second session of First Cut+

Mar 30, 2020

It’s trying times for our industry, but the First Cut Lab team is determined to keep supporting filmmakers. From today, we are calling for projects for 4 workshops to take place this summer; at Karlovy Vary IFF and New Horizons IFF, a second edition in partnership...

Successful first edition of First Cut+ Trieste 2020!

Jan 30, 2020

The first edition of First Cut+ Trieste 2020 just ended! First Cut+ gave three INDUSTRY AWARDS to some of the participating films: Orka Films award for two weeks of colour grading services was attributed to: LISTEN by Ana Rocha Sub-Ti award for subtitles services...