First Cut Lab Paradiso Brazil opens call for applications
After two fruitful editions, First Cut Lab Paradiso Brazil will be held in 2024. To date, the lab has supported 5 films in progress, two of which have premiered at major film festivals : Charcoal by Carolina Markowicz (Toronto International Film Festival 2022)...
Stories from the Chestnut Woods sweeps 11 awards in Potoroz!
After their World Premiere in Toronto IFF at the beginning of the month, Stories from the Chestnut Woods, which participated in FCL Trieste, has won 11 awards at the Festival of Slovenian Film this weekend, including Best Film!! 11!! Besides 'Best film' they won: Best...
All advisers for the autumn workshops announced
The summer is gone, but First Cut Lab is rolling into the fall with full speed! The first edition of FCL Finland starts next week in Helsinki, swiftly followed by the fourth edition of FCL Poland to take place in Gdynia. October will see the first edition of FCL...
THE TASTE OF PHO to premiere in San Sebastian
The first feature film of Mariko Bobrik that participated in FCL Poland 2018 will have it's world premiere in San Sebastian IFF! It is selected in the Culinary Zinema section that combines cinema and gastronomy. The Taste of Pho, stars a Vietnamese chef living in...
Success for John Denver Trending!
The film John Denver Trending that took part in First Cut Lab in the Philippines last April, the first edition of FCL outside of Europe, has sweeped up multiple awards at it's world premiere at Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. Besides winning the top prize of...
My Thoughts Are Silent and Scandinavian Silence awarded in Karlovy Vary!
More success for FCL participants on the award front! Last week both My Thoughts Are Silent by Antonio Lukic (FCL Ukraine 2019) as well as Scandinavian Silence by Martti Helde (FCL Trieste 2017) impressed the juries in Karlovy Vary IFF. The Ukrainian first feature My...
First Cut Lab extends with MEDIA supported First Cut+
The First Cut Lab team is very happy to announce a new program addition called First Cut+ with the support of the Access to Market scheme of Creative Europe’s MEDIA program! First Cut+ will promote a portfolio of 16 fiction feature films in post-production from low...
Inhale-Exhale wins big in Shanghai!
Amazing news from China!! The Georgian film Inhale-Exhale by Dito Tsintsadze, who participated in First Cut Lab in Trieste 2019 together with his producers Rusudan Glurjidze and Nadya Gorshkova, has won 2 awards in the main competition of the prestigious Shanghai IFF!...
All advisers FCL Karlovy Vary and Kosovo confirmed
Nine advisers will be ready to give feedback on the projects selected for the first edition of First Cut Lab in Karlovy Vary next month during the KVIFF Eastern Promises Industry Days. The teams of After the Winter from Montenegro, And They May Still Be Alive Today...
Inhale-Exhale to compete in Shanghai and The Mute distributed in North America
Besides the selection of FCL alumni Scandinavian Silence by Martti Helde and My Thoughts are Silent by Antonio Lukich in Karlovy Vary's East of the West competition, there is also cause for celebration for FCL WEMW alumni Inhale-Exhale and The Mute. Inhale-Exhale...
Selection Karlovy Vary revealed!
picture: Still from 'Mica' by Ismaël Ferroukhi The first edition of First Cut Lab to take place at Karlovy Vary IFF will see rough cuts workshopped of 2 Central and Eastern European projects and, for the first time in FCL history, a project from the Arab world....
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