The professionals are gathered to feel the pulse of the Baltic countries' emerging creative community and seal exciting co-production partnerships such as The Temptation of St Tony by Veiko Õunpuuu, a co-production between Estonia (Homeless Bob Production), Sweden (Atmo) and Finland (Bronson Club), now on its final days of shooting on home ground.
The film was last year's most sought after project at the Baltic Event Co-production market and ended up winning the Nordic-Baltic Film Fund Award (€4,000) for Best Pitch. Footage of the philosophical drama will be shown as part of BE's ‘Coming Soon' programme, along with Vasha, a suspense thriller by Finnish born director Hannu Salonen, produced by Estonia's Allfilm with German, Finnish and Irish partners. The film will be ready in 2009.
Twelve new projects from the Baltics, Scandinavia, Central-Eastern Europe, and Russia will be looking for co-financiers at the fourth BE co-production market on December 1-2. Those include Young Sophie Bell, the directorial debut of Swedish filmmaker Amanda Adolfsson, produced by Sandra Harms for Breidablick Film, and Princess, the new documentary film by the established Finnish filmmaker Arto Halonen (Shadow of the Holy Book), to be produced by Finland's Art Films.
On the main POFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival competition programme, two Nordic films will have a chance to win the €10,000 Grand Prix EurAsia: Mika Kaurismäki's Three Wise Men (Finland) and Eva Sørhaug's debut film and festival favourite Cold Lunch (Norway).