Spa town Karlovy Vary is known for more than healing waters to emerging filmmakers and producers from Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Those on track to reach global audiences are we…
Spa town Karlovy Vary is known for more than healing waters to emerging filmmakers and producers from Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Those on track to reach global audiences are well acquainted with the festival’s industry section, headlined by the Eastern Promises collection of development and marketing workshops and mentorship programs.Christine Vachon
“The numbers say it all,” she notes. “Thanks to such connection with the industry, more projects are making it yearly not just into production but also to the A-list festivals.” The industry events, which attract over 1,300 distributors, sales agents, producers and festival programmers, according to the section’s director, Hugo Rosak, bring in both European and non-European local distributors and major international sales reps hungry for new voices.
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