programme on 13 November 2008
09:00 - 10:00 am
Accreditation
10:00 - 10:15 am
Welcome
Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (Connecting Cottbus, Germany), Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany) Roland Rust (FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany)
10:15 - 12:00 am
FOCUS Baltic Countries
Moderation: Martin Blaney, Presentation Baltic Event: Lili Pilt (Baltic Event, Estonia),Guests: Anneli Ahven (Exitfilm, Estonia) /requested, Laima Freimane (Screen Vision, Latvia), Uljana Kim (Studio Uljana Kim, Lithuania), Margus Öunapuu (Film Tower Kuubis, Estonia), Ieva Norviliene (UAB Tremora, Lithuania)
12:00 - 12:15 pm
Presentation of the Robert Bosch Co-production Prize
Guests: Frank Albers and Enrico Battaglia (Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany)
12:15 - 01:30 pm
Lunch Break - hosted by the Robert Bosch Stiftung
01:30 - 02:45 pm
Come & Pitch it! Part I
02:45 - 03:15 pm
Short Coffee Break
03:15 - 04:30 pm
Come & Pitch it! Teil II
04:30 - 05:00 pm
Coffee Break - hosted by the Nipkow Programme Berlin
05:00 - 06:00 pm
Come & Pitch it! Teil III
06:00 - 07:00 pm
Voting for the CoCo Best Pitch Award 2008 Make your dates for the One2Ones
08:00 - 11:00 pm
Time to talk! Networking Reception - hosted by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung / Announcement of the CoCo Best Pitch Award 2008
programme on 14 november 2008
09:00 - 11:00 am
One2Ones - Part 1
11:00 - 12:30 pm
Co-production: a blessing and a curse?
Moderation: Martin Blaney, Guests: Karl Baumgartner (Pandora, Germany), Srdan Golubovic (Film House Bas Celik, Serbia), Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Germany), Tobias Pausinger (The Match Factory, Germany), Jörg Schneider (ZDF – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Deutschland), Katriel Schory (Israel Film Fund, Israel), Pavel Strnad (Negativ Film, Czech Republic)
12:40 - 02:00 pm
One2Ones - Part 2
02:00 - 03:30 pm
Networking Lunch
03:30 - 04:15 pm
Focus CoCo – Ten Years after Presentation of projects initiated by Connecting Cottbus
04:20 pm
One2Ones Part 3
06:00 pm
The End
SPECIAL TIP: 10:00 pm Baltic Night with the 18th FilmFestival Cottbus - Live: Tribes of the City, Glad-House
pitching 2008
The meeting of the jury to select projects for the pitching session within the scope of Connecting Cottbus took place in Potsdam on September 12, 2008. Members of the jury included: Connecting Cottbus, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk/MDR, Nipkow Programme, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MEDIA Antenna Berlin Brandenburg, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg/RBB, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung/MDM and German Films. The pitching session was on November 13, 2008. 13 projects were selected and presented together with the 14th project: the CoCo Special Pitch Award.
co-production - a blessing and a curse?
Moderation: Martin Blaney, Guests: Karl Baumgartner (Pandora, Germany), Srdan Golubovic (Film House Bas Celik, Serbia), Kirsten Niehuus (Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Germany), Tobias Pausinger (The Match Factory, Germany), Jörg Schneider (ZDF – Das Kleine Fernsehspiel, Deutschland), Katriel Schory (Israel Film Fund, Israel), Pavel Strnad (Negativ Film, Czech Republic)
films at the festival
Participants of Connecting Cottbus represented in the programme of FilmFestival Cottbus with new film productions. Further information can be found here.
reception at sarajevo
Sarajevo Film Festival, MDM (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung), the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Cottbus Film Festival and Connecting Cottbus had the pleasure of inviting all guests of the Sarajevo Film Festival to traditional Cine Link German Lunch with Bosnian BBQ on 22nd August, 2008.
