Category: QKK

Qendra Kombëtare e Kinematografisë (QKK) është krijuar në vitin 1997.

QKK është institucioni më i rëndësishëm kombëtar që inkurajon, financon dhe promovon prodhimin kinematografik në Shqipëri. Përmes administrimit të fondit publik, QKK mundëson zhvillimin e industrisë së filmit në vendin tonë.

Otranto Film Fund Festival – Nasce ad Otranto il Network dell’Audiovisivo dell’Adriatico

18/09/2016

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Otranto Film Fund Festival | nella sala Triangolare del Castello aragonese di Otranto la firma per la creazione di un Network dell’Audiovisivo dell’Adriatico. Albania, Grecia e Croazia si uniscono all’ Apulia Film Commission che diventa faro per la produzione e la diffusione delle produzioni nell’Adriatico, nell’ambito del progetto di cooperazione IPA AdriaWealth. #Offf2016

 

QKK merr pjese ne forumin ballkanik te organizuar ne Otranto nga Apulia Film Commission ku u nenshkrua marreveshja per aplikime te perbashketa ne projektet evropiane.

 

Creative Europe Media Desk Albania dhe Qendra Kombëtare e Kinematografisë prezantojnë projekt idetë e formuluara për propozimet IPA Adriatik – Jon, në kuadër të bashkëpunimit Shqipëri – Itali – Mal i Zi. Ide dhe projekte konkrete që synojnë bashkëpunimin e ngushtë kinematografik të tre vendeve në 3 vitet e ardhshme.

 

Qkk merr pjese ne forumin ballkanik te organizuar ne Otranto nga Apulia Film Commission ku u nenshkrua marreveshja per aplikime te perbashketa ne projektet evropiane.

 

 

 

Albania, Grecia, Croazia ed Italia. Nasce ad Otranto l’intesa per la promozione e la diffusione delle produzioni audiovisive nella regione adriatico/ionica. Nasce grazie ad Otranto Film Fund Festival 2016 che ha fatto incontrare i centri audiovisivi e cinematografici dei Paesi coinvolti con l’ Apulia Film Commission considerata un esempio da seguire, un faro che guiderà alla nuova strada comune. La firma del protocollo d’intesa è l’ultimo atto del progetto di cooperazione IPA AdriaWealth e porterà alla creazione di un Network dell’Audiovisivo dell’Adriatico.

After a long working day meeting on Adriatic Ionian cinema cooperation, with Ilir Butka – Director of Albanian Film Center; Elektra Venaki – Director of Greek Film Center and Dimitris Yatzouzakis – Director of Mediterranean Film institute of Athens. Today : Otranto Film Forum Festival.
FOCUS – IL CINEMA NELLA REGIONE ADRIATICO- JONICA. Un incontro dei rappresentanti delle organizzazioni pubbliche che si occupano di cinema dei paesi della regione Adriatica Ionica che ha come obiettivo principale quello di sostenere, in una prospettiva d’integrazione europea, il consolidamento del sistema produttivo e distributivo comune tra le cinematografie della Regione Adriatico Ionica con un’apertura verso l’area balcanica per rendere più competitivi i territori, valorizzare la progettualità, attrarre nuovi investimenti in un settore strategico per lo sviluppo dell’area.

 

 

Parteciparono all’incontro, condotto e moderato da Luigi De Luca: Luciano Cariddi – Sindaco di Otranto; Luciano Schito – Direttore OFFF – Otranto Film Fund Festival; Ilir Butka – Albanian National Center of Cinematography; Arben Papadhopulli – Responsabile del desk Albania di Creative Europe; Elektra Venaki – Greek Film Centre; Dimitris Yatzouzakis – Mediterranean Film Institute – Atene; Hrvoje Hribar – Croatian Audiovisual Centre; Stefania Ippoliti – Presidente Italian Film Commissions; Maurizio Sciarra – Direttore/Presidente Apulia Film Commission; Paolo Vidali – Fondo Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia; Emma Barboni – Emilia Romagna Film Commission; Andrea Coluccia – Responsabile del Creative Europe Desk Media ufficio di Bari; Domenico Ioffredi – Consigliere regionale del Molise con delega alla Cultura e Molisani nel mondo; Alberto La Monica – Direttore del Forum di Cooproduzione Euro Mediterraneo – Michalis Panagopoulos – Assistant Professor Audiovisual Signal Processing Lab; Dept. of Audiovisual Arts – Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts Ionian University.

OFFF-OTRANTO FILM FUND FESTIVAL
8th EDITION 

OFFF- Otranto Film Fund Festival, Comune of Otranto, Apulia Film Commission and Istituto di Culture Mediterranee (Insitute of Mediterranean Cultures), have created the section ADRIATIC IONIAN MOVIE for the 8th Edition of the Festival. All the films produced in 2015/2016 within the Countries of the Adriatic-Ionian Macro-Region and supported by the Film Fund, can participate in the competition.
If you are interested, please send us a list of supported films and the contact details of their authors and producers no later than 6.00pm of Monday 1st August.
We hereby invite you to read the attached abstract of this year’s Festival in order to decide whether to take part, as representatives of the Film Funds of your Countries, in the roundtables and plenary session called “THE CINEMA IN THE ADRIATIC-IONIAN REGION: THE LANDS, THE HIST0RIES, THE POLICIES”.
Your confirmation of attendance with a travel plan, in order to arrange your stay in Otranto, must be send to the email address lucrezia.errico@libero.it no later than 3.00 pm of Friday 8th August.
Looking forward to your enthusiastic participation, I send you my best regards,

Luciano Schito
Director of OFFF- Otranto Film Fund Festival.

Lucrezia Errico
Responsabile del Cerimoniale
e-mail:lucrezia.errico@libero.it
e-mail:erricolucrezia@gmail.com
mobile: +39 392 6970510

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OFFF-OTRANTO FILM FUND FESTIVAL
8th EDITION
Calendar of the Roundtable sessions

15th September, 10.00 am PANEL Apulia – Greece.
Roundtable session reserved for the guests.
Coordinated by Giovanni Antelmi (Apulia Film Commission).

16th September, 10.00 am PANEL Apulia/Molise – Albania/Montenegro
Roundtable session reserved for the guests.
Coordinated by Arben Papadhopulli (Creative Europe Media Desk).

16th September, 3.00 pm PANEL Italy – Croatia (Regions: Emilia-Romagna, Apulia, Veneto, Marche, Friuli-Venezia-Giulia)
Roundtable session reserved for the guests.
Coordinated by Cristina Piscitelli (Apulia Film Commission).

17th September, 10.00 am PLENARY SESSION – OPEN MEETING
The meeting will be moderated by Alessandro Leogrande (Journalist and writer)


KROME perfaqeson Shqiperine ne OSCARS

18/09/2016

Chromium, directed by Albanian filmmaker Bujar Alimani, will represent Albania in the race for the Best Foreign-language Film Award at the upcoming 89th edition of the Academy Awards

“KROM” i Bujar Alimanit në Oscar për Shqipërinë.
Shqipëria nis “Krom” në garën për Oscar. Filmi me regji të Bujar Alimanit do të përfaqësojë Shqipërinë në kategorinë “Filmi më i mirë në gjuhë të huaj”. 
“Krom” është bashkëprodhim Shqipëri-Kosovë-Gjermani-Greqi dhe pati premierën ndërkombëtare në Festivalin Karlovy Vary, në korrik 2015.
“CHROMIUM” by Bujar Alimani at the Oscars for Albania.
Albania is sending “Chromium” at the Oscars race. The feature directed by Bujar Alimani will represent Albania in the “Foreign Language Film Award”.
“Chromium” is a co-production between Albania Kosovo Germany and Greece and premiered July 2015 at Karlovy Vary Film Festival.
Written and directed by Bujar Alimani
Producer: Tefta Bejko, Valon Jakupaj, Anita Elsani, Thanos Anastopoulos, Stella Theodorakis
Photography: Ilias Adamis
Music: Pjeter Gaci
Editor: Bonita Papastathi
Art Director: Emir Turkeshi Gramo
Cast: Fredjon Ruci, Klodjana Keco, Mirela Naska, Kasem Hoxha

FOCUS – IL CINEMA NELLA REGIONE ADRIATICO- JONICA – Otranto Film Fund Festival

16/09/2016
FOCUS – IL CINEMA NELLA REGIONE ADRIATICO- JONICA. Un incontro dei rappresentanti delle organizzazioni pubbliche che si occupano di cinema dei paesi della regione Adriatica Ionica che ha come obiettivo principale quello di sostenere, in una prospettiva d’integrazione europea, il consolidamento del sistema produttivo e distributivo comune tra le cinematografie della Regione Adriatico Ionica con un’apertura verso l’area balcanica per rendere più competitivi i territori, valorizzare la progettualità, attrarre nuovi investimenti in un settore strategico per lo sviluppo dell’area.
Partecipano all’incontro, condotto e moderato da Luigi De Luca: Luciano Cariddi – Sindaco di Otranto; Luciano Schito – Direttore OFFF – Otranto Film Fund Festival; Ilir Butka – Albanian National Center of Cinematography; Arben Papadhopulli – Responsabile del desk Albania di Creative Europe; Elektra Venaki – Greek Film Centre; Dimitris Yatzouzakis – Mediterranean Film Institute – Atene; Hrvoje Hribar – Croatian Audiovisual Centre; Stefania Ippoliti – Presidente Italian Film Commissions; Maurizio Sciarra – Direttore/Presidente Apulia Film Commission; Paolo Vidali – Fondo Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia; Emma Barboni – Emilia Romagna Film Commission; Andrea Coluccia – Responsabile del Creative Europe Desk Media ufficio di Bari; Domenico Ioffredi – Consigliere regionale del Molise con delega alla Cultura e Molisani nel mondo; Alberto La Monica – Direttore del Forum di Cooproduzione Euro Mediterraneo – Michalis Panagopoulos – Assistant Professor Audiovisual Signal Processing Lab; Dept. of Audiovisual Arts – Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts Ionian University.
http://www.apuliafilmcommission.it/news/otranto-film-fund-festival-viii-edizione

The Albanian Cinema Project – Archives in Motion Workshops

09/09/2016

Friends and film lovers everywhere:) Please take few minutes and consider for yourselves why the work of The Albanian Cinema Project it’s so important worldwide. Help us raise the funds needed to bring a film scanner to Albania for our fantastic Archives in Motion Workshops this October. Only a month left to meet our goals and you can join us as so many key organisations like International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, NYU Cinema Studies / Orphan Film Symposium, etc. have done! And, here’s actress Eliza Dushku with her brother Nate, sharing their experience in the land of the eagles @elizadushku #DearAlbaniahttp://www.thealbaniancinemaproject.org/archives-in-motion.…

Building on our successful foundation and proven track record in Albania, ACP is launching regional training workshops in the Western Balkans for archives professionals. These archivists are working against the odds to preserve an endangered cinematic heritage that has been far too little seen beyond the region’s borders. ACP will organize and host  a 2-week intensive preservation institute at the Albanian National Film Archives (AQSHF)  and the Marubi Academy of Film and Multimedia in Tirana, Albania from October 17-28, 2016. This will be the first in a series of ongoing workshops in the region. AIM will be organized under the auspices of ACP and their partners in Albania and the Western Balkan Region. AIM is a capacity building project to promote and carry out film and video preservation and digitization and to facilitate access to the archival and contemporary cinema of the Western Balkans in situ.

The AIM Workshops will feature intermediate and advanced courses with a focus on practical training in current audiovisual preservation and restoration techniques and archival practices conducted by leading archivists and restorers from preeminent international institutions: the Magyar Filmlabor (Hungarian Film Lab), A/V Geeks (North Carolina, USA), AV Preservation (Switzerland), The George Eastman Museum (GEM, Rochester, NY, USA), NYU MIAP (NY, USA), The Imperial War Museum (IWM, London,UK), the San Francisco Media Archive, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM, Washington, DC), Indiana University Libraries (Bloomington, IN, USA), and the Wende Museum (Los Angeles, CA).

AIM is designed to bring equipment and professional expertise in film and video preservation and digitization to countries with a rich audiovisual heritage, but where, due to decades of infrastructural challenges, access to the tools for ongoing preservation and restoration have been limited. We are committed to fostering collaboration and increasing preservation initiatives by bringing the latest technologies to the region, along with the necessary training for the archives and archivists, so they can begin to provide digital access to their own materials. Help us achieve these goals by contributing to our crowdfunding campaign for a scanner today! 

http://www.thealbaniancinemaproject.org/archives-in-motion.html

BALKAN FOCUS – Nje inisiative shume e rendesishme per Ballkanin ne Festivalin e Filmit ne Venecia.

06/09/2016

Roberto Stabile, ANICA (Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche Audiovisive Multimediali), Dott.ssa Maria Giuseppina Troccoli, MIBACT (Direzione Generale per il Cinema), Ilir Butka, ANCC (Albanian National Center of Cinematography), Arben Papadhopulli, Media Desk Albania

Albania participating on the 73rd Venice Film Festival thanks to ANICA Italy and the Italian Ministry of Culture MIBACT with its session Focus Balkani.

Ilir Butka presenting the Albanian National Center of Cinematography ( Qendra Kombëtare e Kinematografisë ) facts and figures, and international relationship on co productions between and with the Albanian Producers, while Arben Papadhopulli presenting the future Albanian Project : Balkan / Adriatic Film Fund.

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BALKAN FOCUS
Nje inisiative shume e rendesishme per Ballkanin ne Festivalin e Filmit ne Venecia.

Qendrat e filmit nga Shqiperia, Bosnja, Croacia, Maqedonia, Serbia, Sllovenia mblidhen ne nje takim te rendesishem me MIBACT (Ministria Italiane e Cultures) e cila eshte impenjuar te ndihmoje me suport financiar dhe promovues bashkeprodhimet italiane me vendet ballkanike dhe anasjelltas.
Ne kete kuader ne vitin 2017 do te startoje financimi i perbashket Shqiperi – Itali per projektet e perbashketa ne fazen e tyre te zhvillimit. Si fillim dy vendet impenjohen me nje buxhet rreth 30 mije euro sejcili, per te pare me pas mundesine e rritjes ne vazhdim.

Njekohesisht MIBACT mbeshtet idene e krijimit te nje hapesire ne dispozicion te kinematografise ballkanike ne Festivalin e Venezias, ide per te cilen edhe QKK ka dhene kontributin e saj. “Focus per Ballkanin” do te sherbeje per te finalizuar, integruar dhe promovuar kinematografine ballkanike ne kontekstin european, duke krijuar ura dialogu kulturor midis vendeve tona.

QKK shkon ne venezia njekohesisht per te promovuar inisiativen e saj per krijimin e Fondit Ballkanik i cili ka per qellim nxitjen e bashkeprodhimit kinematografik midis vendeve te Ballkanit.
Kjo inisiative ka siguruar mbeshtetjen e Ministrise se Kultures dhe Ministrise se Puneve te jashteme te Shqiperise, partneritetin e Apulia film Commission, interesin e Istituto Luce e MIBACT.

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Sulla ocassion del 73° Festival Internazionale di Venezia, anica, l’Associazione Nazionale Italiana rappresenta l’industria cinematografica e audiovisiva organizza, in collaborazione con il Mibact

(Ministero per i beni e le attività, cultura e turismo)

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CONFERENCE “ANICA INCONTRA … FOCUS BALCANI” 

(Albania, Bosnia, Croazia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)


La conferenza si terrà il 5 SETTEMBRE 2016 al lido di Venezia, L’ Hotel Excelsior, padiglione italiano, SALA TROPICANA (piano terra) dalle 11.00 alle 13.00 del mattino.

L’ obiettivo della conferenza è promuovere il co-firmato o dei fondi di sviluppo in corso con Mibact e presentare il sistema di incentivi messo in atto da ciascun paese balcanico per il cinema e per il co-produzione internazionale.
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On the ocassion of the 73rd Venice Int Film Festival, ANICA, the National Association representing Italian film and audiovisual industry organizes in partnership with MiBACT (Italian Ministry for Heritage and Activities, Culture and Tourism)

CONFERENCE “ANICA INCONTRA … FOCUS BALCANI” 

(Albania, Bosnia, Croazia, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia)


The conference will be held on September 5th 2016 in Venice Lido, Hotel Excelsior, Italian Pavilion, Sala Tropicana (ground floor) from 11.00 to 13.00 a.m.

The aim of the conference is to promote the co-development funds signed or in progress with MIBACT and to present the system of incentives put in place by each Balkan Country for Cinema and for the international co-production.

ANCC activity report 2015 – 2016

02/09/2016


ANCC activity report 2015

ACTUAL BUDGET INCREASED BY 70%
Establishment of the Albanian Minority Co-productions Found
On 2015, from 78 film projects that applied for a grant.
The Board awarded a total of 37 film projects:

13 Features, 9 short, 7 Documentaries, 3 Animations, 4 Development, 4 Film Festivals
4 Features
3 Features Debut
3 Features Independent
3 Features Minority coproductions
4 Shorts 
5 Shorts Indipendent
4 Documentaries
3 Animations
4 Developments 
4 Film Festivals
• The average age of winning directors is 41 years old.
• 18 directors are first applicants 
• 30% of them are females.
ANCC activity report 2016
On 2016, from 81 film projects that applied for a grant. 
The Board awarded support to a total of 40 film projects:

14 Features, 5 short, 6 Documentaries, 10 Animations, 5 Film Festivals
4 Features
4 Features Debut
4 Features Indipentent
2 Features Minority Co-productions
3 Short 
2 Short Indipendent 
6 Documentaries
4 Animations
6 Animations Indipendent
5 Film Festivals
The average age of winning directors is 40 years old.


Other alternative funded projects:
• 3 projects financed by the Apulia Film Commission as part of the project “Memory” – 3 short films 90.000 Euro.
• 2 projects financed from ANCC, got also support by SEE (South Eastern Europe Cinema Network)
• 1 project was financed by the Macedonian Film Agency
• 1 project was financed by Eurimages
• 1 project was financed by Kickstarter
• 1 audience development project was financed by Creative Europe Sub – Media Programme



More information about ANCC

Established on 1997, the Albanian National Center of Cinematography (ANCC) is the only cinematographic public grant giving institution that finances, encourages and promotes Albania’s film production.
The ANCC’s goal is to foster and support Albanian cinema, encouraging new visions and emerging voices. 
The decisions regarding the financial support of the projects are taken by the ANCC artistic and financial assessment Board.
The Board is composed by members that represent the Albanian cinematographic associations.
In 19 years ANCC has financed approximately 290 films and other projects.
At international level Albania has signed:
– The European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Productions.
– A Government Cinematographic Cooperation Agreement with Italy.
– A Protocol Agreement with the Apulia Film Commission.
Albania is a member of:
– Eurimages.
– EFP “European Film Promotion”
– SEE “South Eastern Europe Cinema Network”
Albania participates on the Creative Europe Sub – Media Programme.
Other initiatives:
The 142nd Meeting of the Eurimages Board of Management will be hosted by the ANCC in Tirana 8th – 11th March.
At the end of 2016 ANCC will host the “Balkan Pre-selection Screening Event” for Berlinale 2017.
The ANCC launched the initiative “Balkan Film Forum”, first presented at the Rome Forum in November 2015.
The ANCC together with the Macedonia and Bulgarian Film Centers is a founding member of the Balkan Cinema Cities initiative.
Additional Information:
• Albania has 2 Film Schools
• Approximately 10 international film festivals are being organized yearly
• There are 60 film Production Companies registered by the ANCC that operate in Albania.
• The Albanian Film Commission operates since 2003.
• Seven Cinematographic Associations operate in Albania.
ANCC is the sole administrator of the entire cinematographic production of the former Albanian State Studio “KINOSTUDIO Shqipëria e Re” 1952-1991.

ANCC international presence:
• Stands at BERLINALE – Berlin Film Festival
• The feature “LA VERGINE GIURATA“ Italia / Albania / Kosovo is part of the Main Feature Competition during the BERLINALE 2016
• Stands at Cannes Film Festival
• The Creative Europe Media Desk Albania was established – Facilitate the Albanian creative industry participation on Creative Europe – 10 Info Days held at the Albanian Ministry of Culture, COD – “Center For Openness And Dialogue” (Albanian PM Office)
• A Protocol Agreement with the Apulia Film Commission was signed in 2014
• The 142nd Meeting of the Eurimages Board of Management will be hosted by the ANCC in Tirana 8th – 11th March.
• At the end of 2016, ANCC will host the “Balkan Pre-selection Screening Event” for Berlinale 2017.
• The ANCC launched the initiative “Balkan Film Forum”, first presented at the Rome Forum in November 2015.
• The ANCC together with the Macedonia and Bulgarian Film Centers is a founding member of the Balkan Cinema Cities initiative.
• Workshop: “EAWE IN DEMAND”
• “BOTA” is the official nomination of Albania for the Foreign Language Award at the OSCARS 2016. The movie was screened in LA for the Academy members (part of a European Film Promotion Programme)
2015 theatrical releases:
Features:
· Distant Angels
· Across the Sea
· Chromium
· No Country for Fairy Tales
Shorts:
· The Bread
· Keno
· Shirt Sleeve
· Life on a Carousel
Animations:
· Ethnophobia
· The Little Branch
· Faraway
· The First Film Project
Documentary:
· Waiting
· Steel and Lord
Data sources: ANCC. February 2016
http://qkk.al

14 Filma të gjatë, 5 Filma të shkurtër, 6 Dokumentarë, 10 Filma të Animuar, 5 Festivale Filmi

01/09/2016

Financimet e QKK per vitin 2016

  • Aplikuan ne QKK 81 projekte filmike.
  • Pas proçesit të vlerësimit fitojnë të drejtën për financim 40 projekte. 
  • 14 Filma me metrazh të gjatë, 5 Filma me metrazh të shkurtër, 6 Dokumentarë, 10 Filma të Animuar, 5 Festivale Filmi


  • 4 Filma me metrazh të gjatë
  • 4 Filma me metrazh të gjatë, vepër e parë
  • 4 Filma me metrazh të gjatë Indipentent
  • 2 Filma me metrazh të gjatë (Bashkëprodhime minoritare)
  • 3 Filma me metrazh të shkurtër 
  • 2 Filma me metrazh të shkurtër Indipendent 
  • 6 Dokumentarë
  • 4 Filma të Animuar
  • 6 Filma të Animuar (Indipendentë)
  • 5 Festivale Filmi

Molise Cinema Film Festival

26/08/2016
Questa sera MoliseCinema Tour sarà ad Ururi, alle ore 21, in largo Mosignor Tria. In programma i corti del Festival e il film “Vergine giurata”, di Laura Bispuri, con Alba Rohrwacher e Flonja Kodheli. Nel paese “arbereshe” una storia intensa ambientata tra Albania e Italia