In addition to two DVD copies of the film, you need to send the documentation with the following information included: title of the film (the original title and the title in English), name of the director(s), country(-ies) and year of production, running time, synopsis, list of awards and name and function of contact person. Also, you have to specify which category the film belongs to (featured, documentary, short or animated film). Film in any other language than English and Croatian must have English subtitles. Films produced in year 2012 or later are preferred.

Please send the films to the following address: Festival of Tolerance, Vojnovićeva 15, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.

You are sending these screeners for the selection purposes at your own expense. When sending, please write on the envelope “For cultural purposes, no commercial value” and indicate that the value of the package is not higher than $ 10. Please send only films that thematically correspond to our Festival (Holocaust, promotion of tolerance, Jewish culture, position and promotion of rights of members of national or religious minorities, handicapped persons, LGBT community…). Final decision about the films that will be included in the Festival program will be announced at the beginning of March, 2015. At the last few editions of the Festival, we have screened around 60 films, as our audience chooses the best works in the categories of feature and documentary films (audience award).

If you do not explicitly ask for them, copies of DVDs sent for selection purposes will not be returned. They will become the part of the Festival of Tolerance archive, but will never be publicly screened without the prior agreement with the distributors.

The other way to submit your films is by sending us the link for online preview. We prefer to review the films from Vimeo. If you choose to send the film by this option, you will also have to electonically send us the info requested in the second paragraph.

Thank you for your interest and we look forward to having a great cooperation with you! For any further questions, feel free to contact us at luka.rincic@jff-zagreb.hr.

The Workshop is traditionally held every year in Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, during the Festival of Tolerance – Jewish Film Festival Zagreb. This year, for the 7 year in a row the Workshop is taking a place form May 17th to 24th 2014. Young talents from Croatia and abroad will, uder the expert guidance, make one short meter film. They will have the opportunity to show their accomplishmet to the audience in Zagreb on May 24th at 20:15 PM at kino Tuškanac.

This year, the selection committee chose a total of 6 best applicants and formed a single group of workshop participants.

The programme of the Talent Workshop consists of a series of lectures, film screenings, screenplay development, shooting, editing, open discussions in a friendly atmosphere and, finally, realization of short digital film. The Workshop unites film theory and practice, with the aim of filling the gap between formal education and its practical applications, and creating a multicultural dialogue among participants from all over the world.

The young future film makers will work with Mr. Branko Lustig, the Honorary President of  the Festival and double Academy Award winner, Mr. Mirko Ilić, esteemed designer and illustrator, whit others expert such as Mr. Darko Lungov, famous director and screenwriter, Academy Award winner Stefan Ruzowitzky and famous german director Jeanine Meerapfel.

Whish our young talents luck and support their beginnings by coming to the screening to their film!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETzYkbkZGbA&feature=youtu.be

For the seventh year in a raw, within the Festival of Tolerance – 8th Jewish Film Festival Zagreb, we are organizing the International Talent Workshop – ITW which will be held from 17th to 24th of May in Zagreb, Croatia. Ten participants from all the world will be under the expert guidance of professional filmmakers, making two short films that will later be shown to the Zagreb audience on the last day of the festival, 24th of May, in cinema Tuškanac.

Our desire is to present a workshop that brings together young talents who will have the unique opportunity to learn about the world of film, but also to share their knowledge with others – making new acquaintance with people from the profession.

During this training program, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the making of the film through all its stages – from processing, script writing to shooting, editing and finally – display, with the help of renowned local and international film professionals. Young filmmakers will work with the honorary president of the festival Mr. Branko Lustig and the esteemed designer and illustrator Mr. Mirko Ilic along side many other professionals from the world of domestic and foreign film.

Workshop leaders are Staša Čelan – our longtime associate lecturer with extensive experience in film workshops and one of the founders of the young film production company Focusmedia Ltd. and Andrej Korovljev – a man with a great experience in directing and producing adverts, a double Porin winner and an Octavian and Jelena Rajkovic award winner.

Candidates should register from the 6th to 31st of March at the following link :
http://talent.arhiva2014.festivaloftolerance.com/competitions/others/

Sign up and come with us into the great world of film!