Film Republic is a new world sales and production company, specialising in independent, edgy and alternative feature fiction and documentary films. Film Republic was launched in Rotterdam in 2012, and has built a slate of both newcomer talent as well as international festival hits whilst also developing a number of documentary and indie titles.

FILMEXPORT PRAGUE DISTRIBUTION is an experienced film export agency with a long tradition dealing all the rights of long feature films made in 1945 - 1991, i.e. state film production including the best Czech classic films of "New Wave" of the sixties made by famous film directors as Miloš Forman, Jiří Menzel, Jiří Weiss, Karel Kachyňa, Věra Chytilová, František Vláčil and others. We represent also Czech archives films (1930-1945) as well as Czech animated film production (1965–1991) of Zlin Film Studios including famous films of Karel Zeman and Hermina Týrlová. In our catalogue there are also feature films of 1992-2004 made by Czech independent producers.

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Founded 25 years ago by Jan Rofekamp, Films Transit International is one of the longest running, renowned and respected international sales agencies of quality documentaries with offices in Montreal and New York. We specialize in the worldwide release and marketing of high profile, theatrical and TV documentaries that are unique and have universal appeal, in two specific genres: Arts & Culture, which include all our documentaries about Arts, Culture, Biography, Cinema and Music. Society & Politics, which include all our documentaries about Current Affairs, Society, Politics, Human Interest and History. We strongly believe that major festival exposure adds prestige to a film's international career. Many of our films are selected for the major film (launch pad) film festivals, such as IDFA, Sundance, Berlin and Toronto and win prestigious prizes.

Since 1998, Esther van Messel runs FHF in Zurich and Berlin for international distribution and production of documentaries, series, fiction films and transmedia. FHF acts as executive producer for selected projects and has worked with major broadcasters (like ABC, Arte, BBC, CH4, HBO, NHK, PBS, ZDF) and distributors (like Amazon, Salzgeber, Oscilloscope, Dogwoof, MUBI, iTunes) around the world. FHF is present at all major festivals around the year, with booths and stands at the main events such as the MIPs, La Rochelle, Sheffield, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Seoul. First Hand Films have competed in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Rotterdam, Locarno, Pusan, Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto and many others. FHF’s very first pick-up went on to receive the Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature. Since then, most First Hand Films have won awards: Cinema for Peace, Emmy, Prix Europa, many of all IDFA main awards, Biarritz, Banff, Grimme-Preis, Grierson, Grand Prix Nyon, many National Film Awards, European Film Awards, Silver Leopards, Golden Rose Montreux a.m.o.

Production company Forza Production House was based in 1994 and has estabilished as a production company in the field of TV programs, musical production and event shows. In 2001 company has been enlarged on record label named Forza Music. Since 2006 Forza Production House coproduces the IFF Artfilm Trencin - Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia. It is also known for its close cooperation with well known L+S Theatre in Bratislava, Theatre Broadway and Theatre Hybernia in Prague. "Soul at Peace" is the first feature film of the company currently in post – production and “Do you love each other” first documentary film, which is currently in production.

VSMU has been founded in 1949 for the university level art education. It has three faculties: Music and Dance, Theatre and Puppets and Film and Television. Though they have been thought some subjects like script writing or directing, the stand-alone Film and Television Faculty (with all necessary branches and departments to create a film) was established in 1990 as the only University level school for audiovisual media in Slovakia. The Academy offers a complete film and audiovisual education in seven ateliers (Script-writing, Directing, Documentary, Cinematography, Editing, Sound and Music, Animation) and two departments (Production and Management as well as a special Department of Humanities and Cinema Studies. Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava is a public university-type of school and the highest accredited educational, artistic and research institution in the field of theatre, film, music and dance arts in Slovakia,

Furia Film is a slovak production company in audiovisual industry with emphasizing of creativity and new forms of production films and audiovisual projects. It was established on October 2006 by Lívia Filusová - producer and Tina Diosi – scriptwriter, director. The main aim of the company at the beginning was producing mainly documentary films with strong artistic and culturel value. After half year of its existence company grow up and also did its ambitions . The accent was in finding good scripts / feature , documentary, shorts / , expanding through international coproductions and expanding in TV channels as well as offering full- service for international productions shooting in Slovakia.

Since January 1st, 2012 Telepool's world sales division serves its international customers under a new name: GLOBAL SCREEN is the new joint venture between Bavaria Media GmbH and Telepool GmbH, which will handle the worldwide distribution of cinema and television programmes outside the German-speaking European territories as of Jan. 1, 2012, carrying on the successful track record of the two partners. This joint venture will be one of Europe's largest distribution companies.

Set up as a distribution company in 1995 by Michael Höfner and Jürgen Brüning, GMfilms has released (and, since 1997) co-produced a number of predominantly gay-oriented features and documentaries, including such English-language titles as Ela Troyano's Latin Boys Go to Hell and Nigel Finch's Stonewall. GM distributes commercially in Germany and non-commercially throughout German-speaking Europe. GM was inactive in 2000 and 2001, but has geared up its slate since April 2002, with plans for up to five movies a year, including Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken's documentary Herr Schmidt und Herr Friedrich, which the company also produced, and the Brazilian gay odyssey Saudade, which means 'Desire', and which Brüning directed. There is an insufficient information to rank the company's releases by admissions

Created at the end of 1995, HIBOU PRODUCTION devotes itself to audiovisual productions. By the end of 2006, the company had produced about 40 to 50 films, documentaries and short fiction. For several years including 2007, the company has benefited from financial support (in the form of an automatic account for audiovisual programs) from the French National Cinematography Council (CNC) for its films. The main subjects developed by Hibou Production: - Creative documentary films: portraits and social issues. - Ethnological films, mostly produced in Asian and Africa. - Musical documentaries, musical films and live-shows (features or series). - Short-fiction films. -Television series and thematical TV magazines. TELEVISION REFERENCES: France 5; France 2 /3 ; Canal + France ; ARTE; Canal + International ; Planète France, Italy, Germany; Planète future ; MCM; Mezzo;; SBS ( Australia) ; TF1; Canal France International; KTO Télévision ; Télévision Monte Carlo; Ciné Cinéma ; Seasons ; Multithématiques ; B sky B (UK); RTBF; VTM (Belgium); YLE (Finland); Planeta; etc. PRIZES IN FILM FESTIVALS: 2005 and 2006 Grand Prix SACEM (The French Society of Musical Authors, Composers and Producers) for Best Musical Documentary Biennale du Cinéma Arabe IMA(Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris), Bilan du Film Ethnographique (Musée de l’Homme, Paris), Festival Résistances, Festival Sitges (Espagne), Institut National de Géographie, Rencontres internationales du Documentaire (Montréal), Traces de vie (Clermont Ferrand), Festival international du film francophone de Namur (Belgique), International Film festival Winterthur (Winterthur – Suisse)/ New York film festival / Avignon / Amsterdam Film Festival ( Hollande)…

Illumina Films is a small and effective boutique sales company based in Amsterdam. It specializes in human-interest documentaries of quality and represents a collection of documentary films that have been shown widely at international film festivals and by international broadcasters. Illumina Films focuses on documentaries with meaningful cultural and social themes as well as historical, literary, and art subjects.

Imagina International Sales is an international distribution platform with more than 130 formats and almost 3.000 broadcast hours. The company was created by the audiovisual group Imagina and will distribute for the international market original fiction, formats, music and related products from Imagina and other companies outside the group.

INSOMNIA World Sales handles worldwide distribution rights for independent international feature films. Since 2004, INSOMNIA world Sales Sales has established a global network of international distributors and buyers, and has become the sales agent for producers from around the world. INSOMNIA World Sales represents high quality feature films and TV programmes.

JMT Films is representing unique films from Israel, such as a selection of films by veteran Director Dan Wolman, the documentary Trilogy of Dan & Noit Geva (their second decade's filmic work manifests), the self-revealing documentary Trilogy of Zohar Wagner and a selection of the best films of the Sapir Film School's Graduates. JMT Films is involved in Fund Raising of audiovisual projects and International Co-Productions, Distribution & Sales, such as ‘Saul Friedländer und die Geschichte'' by Yehuda Yaniv, Co-Produced with German Television, ‘One Eye Wide Open'' by Aner Preminger, Co-Produced with Dutch Television and ''Live or Die in Entebbe'' by Eyal Boers, Co-Produced with Canadian Television. JMT Films is buying and selling to TV Channels, markets and promotes films to film festivals and markets, and sells films to Educational/Academic Market. JMT Films is participating in international film festivals and major film & television markets, such as IDFA, Berlinale, Hot Docs, MIPTV, Sunny Side of the Doc, Latin Side of the Doc, Bolivia Lab, Docs in Thessaloniki, DOK Leipzig and Visions du Réel. JMT Films meets in those events with Independent Producers from all over the world to discuss about potential projects & completed programs.

K2 studio belongs to the leading Slovak production video studios. It was found in 1995. The owner of the studio, who is in the same time the creative director of K2, Pavol Barabáš, is a worldwide acknowledged filmmaker whose work concentrates on documentary filmmaking with mountaineering themes and themes on native civilizations.

m-appeal is a young world sales company based in Berlin. We are dedicated to bringing high quality cutting-edge and cross-border cinema with a global market appeal to the international community. We specialize in films from various origin including Eastern and Southern Europe, Germany, Asia and Latin America, with a potential for theatrical distribution. In matters of documentaries we only take an interest in Gay and Lesbian titles.