EUFCN - The European Film Commissions Network

We are thrilled to present the shortlist of the EUFCN Location Awards 2024! The finalist locations are: ✨FRØYA for Billionaire Island - Midgard Film Commission Norway (NORWAY) ✨MDINA for Napoleon - Malta Film Commission (MALTA) ✨SCHÖNBRUNN PALACE for The Regime - Vienna Film Commission (AUSTRIA) ✨STAATSOPER STUTTGART for Cranko - Film Commission Region Stuttgart (GERMANY) ✨TAJOGAITE VOLCANO for La hojarasca - Canary Islands Film (SPAIN) The five outstanding locations, selected by the Location Awards Jury, will compete for two distinct awards: 🏆The EUFCN Location Award 2024, selected by the Location Award Jury 🏆The EUFCN Audience Location Award 2024, selected by the public through online voting 🗳️IT’S TIME TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE: https://lnkd.in/dgdQMvY8 📰 READ THE FULL NEWS: https://lnkd.in/dWDPdJiM 🗓️Online voting is now open until January 31, 2025! One lucky voter will win a trip to the winning location of the “EUFCN Audience Location Award”. The Ceremony of the EUFCN Location Awards 2024, celebrating the winners, the best European filming locations of the year, will take place during the European Film Market / Berlinale 2025 in February. #EUFCN #filmingEurope #EUFCNLocationAwards #filminglocations #movielocations #filmproduction #filmindustry #filmcommissions #bestlocation #Europe #Froya #Mdina #Schonbrunn #StaatsoperStuttgart #Tajogaite

Screen International’s Global Production Awards 2025 are open for entries! The Global Production Awards celebrates the very best production work taking place, outstanding and emerging locations, along with great work in areas including sustainable production and diversity.🌟 The awards are open to all organisations and companies working in the film & TV industry including studios, production companies, film commissions, location, suppliers & manufacturers and any services involved in film and TV production. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/epPVYaNE

EUFCN has renewed its Board of Directors✨ Teresa Loureiro (Lisboa Film Commission) and Stefanie Rauscher (Vienna Film Commission) are the new members of the EUFCN Board. Welcome on board! The EUFCN Board and Staff wish to express their gratitude to Lefteris Eleftheriou (Cyprus Film Commission) for his services as a Board member from early 2022 up till now.🌟 The new EUFCN Board of Directors is composed of: 🔹Carlota Guerrero (Catalunya Film Commission) – Co-President 🔹Adrian A. Mitchell (Oslo Film Commission) – Co-President 🔹Alexandra Luetkens (Film Commission Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein - MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein) – Treasurer 🔹Zuzana Bieliková (Slovak Film Commission) – Board Member 🔹Tanja Ladović Blažević (Filming in Croatia) – Board Member 🔹Teresa Loureiro (Lisboa Film Commission) - Board Member 🔹Jūratė Pazikaitė (Vilnius Film Office) – Board Member 🔹Stefanie Rauscher (Vienna Film Commission) - Board Member 🎙️”We are surely on the right track and confidently looking forward to continuing the work we have started to renew and further develop the EUFCN, creating more opportunities for engaging with the international film community, sharing knowledge and increasing the visibility of the Association and its members.” - Carlota Guerrero and Adrian Mitchell, EUFCN Co-Presidents. 🗞️Read the full news: https://lnkd.in/dhWyrFMu #EUFCN #filmingEurope #filmcommissions #filmindustry

EUFCN will be part of the new IN BRIEF series at #FOCUS2024, presenting one 10min talk of the sessions under the theme What’s Next? on Tuesday December 10. In the What’s Next? sessions, four experts (4 x 10min talks at 14:10 - 14:50) will be diving into tech advancements and production ideas which will dictate the next decade of visual storytelling. 🎬 🗓️Mark the time slot of the EUFCN talk on your calendars! 
IN BRIEF: What’s Next? #4 
 Virtual Horizons: Redefining Locations and Creativity with AI 
 Tuesday, December 10, 2024 
14:40 - 14:50 Guest Speaker: julia Keller - director/writer This talk is proudly presented by the #EUFCN and by MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. Learn more about all 4 talks/speakers under the IN BRIEF:What's Next? sessions here: https://lnkd.in/dj_XgSDy Be part of the discussion about the future of our industry! ✨ #filmindustry #filmproduction #filminglocations #technogy #virtualproduction #machinelearning #storytelling #locations #FOCUSLondon #filmmaking

🌱 IT’S GREEN OR NEVER: Final Session Today! EUFCN Members, join us as we wrap up this online training course on sustainability, organized by EUFCN - European Film Commissions Network in collaboration with Green Film and Trentino Film Commission.✨ Explore how film commissions can lead the change for a more sustainable film industry by learning and applying strategies to effectively engage producers, local suppliers, and stakeholders in the adoption of environmentally responsible practices.🌿 Meet the speakers of Session III ➡️ 🗓️Session III “How film commissions can promote sustainable productions” Tuesday, November 26 (10am CET - 12pm CET)
 🎙️Speakers: 
Dörte Schneider Garcia, Certified Green Consultant
 Alberto Battocchi, Film Commissioner at Trentino Film Commission - Green Film Thank you for your active participation in shaping a greener future for filmmaking! #greenfilm #sustainableproduction #sustainability #filmcommissions #onlinetraining #filmindustry #filmproduction #sustainablefilmmaking

We are honoured to announce the Jury for the eighth edition of the EUFCN Location Awards! ✨Tammy Glover (SVP Production, Sony Pictures Television, USA) ✨Caroline Greville - Morris (Production Designer, UK) ✨Benjamin Hendriks (Supervising Location Manager, Netherlands) ✨EJ Richards (Supervising Location Manager, UK) ✨Sabine Schulmeyer(Supervising Location Manager, Germany) The five distinguished professionals from the film industry will select the shortlist of the five final contenders among the submitted locations and will also vote for the winner of the EUFCN Location Award 2024, the best European Filming Location of 2024. 📣The shortlist of the five finalists will be revealed on December 2, 2024.🌟 "[...]We are thrilled to announce our Jury this year. Each Juror has an incredible track record in the film industry. Their massive experience on international productions enables them to value the high profile of the diverse locations and their creative use with a sharp eye. It is this diversity across our continent that makes Filming Europe a unique experience for filmmakers across the globe. That is why EUFCN feels obliged to celebrate outstanding achievements in the world of locations’’ - Venia Vergou, Manager of the EUFCN. The EUFCN Location Awards celebrate outstanding achievements in the world of locations and showcase the incredible talent that contributes to the magic of filmmaking.🎬 📰 Read the full story and meet the jurors: https://lnkd.in/dzvG899z Media Partner: Screen International #EUFCN #filmingEurope #EUFCNLocationAward#filminglocations #movielocations #filmproduction#filmindustry #bestlocation #Europe #award #jury

🌱 IT’S GREEN OR NEVER: Session 2 Today! The journey towards sustainable filmmaking continues with the online training course, organized by EUFCN - European Film Commissions Network in collaboration with Green Film and Trentino Film Commission. Meet the speakers of Session II ➡️ 🗓️Session II “State of the art - sustainability across Europe” Wednesday, November 20 (10am CET - 12pm CET)
 🎙️Speakers:
 Annee Helvig Frost, Sustainability Manager at SF Studios Thierry Hugot, Eurimages - Council of Europe Sustainability Study Group 
 Linnea Merzagora, Green Film Project Manager
 #EUFCN Members will gain insights into relevant European public policies and strategies to effectively engage producers, local suppliers, and stakeholders in the shift toward a greener film industry.✨ #greenfilm #sustainableproduction #sustainability #filmcommissions #onlinetraining #filmindustry #filmproduction #sustainablefilmmaking

EUFCN had a strong presence at AGORA, the industry market of the 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, as an advocate of the European Film Commissions. ✨ In the AGORA Talk titled “Meet the Film Commissions: By your side before and after production from the North to the South of Europe”, Film Commissioners from Italy, Norway and Greece discussed the vital role of Film Commissions in the growth of the European film industry #TIFF65 on Monday November 4. 📣 Intro by: Vicky Hatzivasiliou, Vice-Governor of Tourism, Region of Central Macedonia, Greece Leonidas Christopoulos, Chief Executive Officer of the Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center-Creative Greece 🎙 Speakers: Martina Lovascio - Fondazione Apulia Film Commission, Italy Neoklis Mantas - Hellenic Film Commission/Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece Lina Milonaki - Film Office of Central Macedonia, Greece Adrian Mitchell - Oslo Film Commission, Norway & EUFCN Co-President Moderator: Venia Vergou - Manager of the EUFCN - European Film Commissions Network Organized by: Region of Central Macedonia (Greece) & Film Office - Central Macedonia, in collaboration with the EUFCN and the Hellenic Film Commission/Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center - Creative Greece The panel was followed by a cocktail networking event, hosted by the Region of Central Macedonia EUFCN also presented the ways in which Film Commissions can aid in the filmmaking process, on both operational and policy level, to the participants of this year’s AGORA Short Film Lab #TIFF65 on Tuesday November 5. 📸 [photos 1-6] ©Digital Archive of the Thessaloniki Film Festival Photographer: N. Ververidis - Motionteam #FilmIndustry #AgoraTalks #FilmCommissions #TIFF65 #EUFCN #RegionOfCentralMacedonia #FilmOfficeCentralMacedonia #HellenicFilmCommission #CreativeGreece #Thessaloniki #Cinema

🌱IT’S GREEN OR NEVER: Essentials for Film Commissioners, an online training course organized by EUFCN in collaboration with Green Film and Trentino Film Commission, kicks off today! Designed exclusively for #EUFCN Members, the course offers practical tools for integrating sustainability into film practices🎬 Participants will explore the environmental impacts of audiovisual productions, key challenges, and existing sustainability tools, while also gaining insights into relevant European public policies and learn strategies for effectively engaging producers, local suppliers, and stakeholders in the shift toward a greener film industry✨ 🗓️Session I 
“What does it mean to produce in a sustainable way?”
 Tuesday, November 12 (11am CET - 1pm CET)
 🎙️Speakers:
 Louise Marie Smith, Founder of Neptune Sustainability
 Luca Ferrario, Director of Trentino Film Commission - Green Film
 Linnea Merzagora, Green Film Project Manager See you online! #greenfilm #sustainableproduction #sustainability #filmcommissions #onlinetraining #filmindustry #filmproduction #sustainablefilmmaking

Catch the highlights of the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes session “Film Commissions, Beyond Locations”, held on May 18, 2024. The event was organized by the Film Commission Zurich, the Ticino Film Commission, the Valais Film Commission, and SWISS FILMS, in collaboration with #EUFCN ✨ https://lnkd.in/dRZ5T2QK #filmcommissions #filmindustry