10th edition of First Cut Lab Trieste Focus on Ukrainian cinema!
This upcoming January 2024, First Cut Lab will celebrate the 10th edition of its founding program, launched in cooperation with When East Meets West. Indeed, the very First Cut Lab workshop took place in Trieste in January 2015. Now after 80 First Cut Labs run...
A new award for First Cut+ Karlovy Vary
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...
First Cut Labs Balkans & RE-ACT in full virtual swing!
The 1st edition of First Cut Lab Balkans and the 2nd edition of First Cut Lab RE-ACT are taking place online during this month of June 2020. In total, 5 feature films from Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Slovenia were selected to take part in these...
First Cut Lab launches new collaborations to support filmmakers from Canada & the Middle East
As a Europe-based initiative, First Cut Lab most often runs activities designed with and for European filmmakers. Reaching out to other cinemas of the world is something that excites us tremendously though! After a successful first experience in the Philippines in...
Coming up: Four summer workshops and second session of First Cut+
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...
First Cut Lab goes to Lithuania!
First Cut Lab keeps expanding its horizons in 2020, starting next week in a new European capital: Vilnius. Running from 2.-5. of March with the financial support of the Lithuanian Film Centre, two projects from Lithuania and one from Estonia are selected to...
Successful first edition of First Cut+ Trieste 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...
Gearing up for Trieste 2020: All advisers confirmed
Barely a week into the new decade, the first workshop of the year is already in sight! At the upcoming First Cut Lab Trieste, three debut features from Germany, Hungary and Romania are selected to participate - and all of them directed by women!A fresh group of...
A stellar 2019 for First Cut Lab
The First Cut Lab team has spent the holidays dusting off its shoes, it’s been a very busy and eventful year! Besides the now old faithfuls of Trieste and Poland, no less than 7 new locations were added to the First Cut Lab slate, both in and outside of Europe. A...
Ilaria Gomarasca to join FCL as Head of First Cut+
First Cut Lab is glad to announce that Ilaria Gomarasca will join Matthieu Darras’ team as Head of First Cut+ starting November 4th! After ten years of experience in the International sales’ field, as Festivals and Markets Manager for Paris-based Pyramide...
Call for FCL Trieste 2020 now open!
It's a busy time for First Cut Lab! The national editions in Finland and Poland just finished, the Turkey workshop is well on its way and November will see the first edition in collaboration with RE-ACT. But also, the call for our good old faithful workhop at When...
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