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NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY“Creative Association „Riga Motion Pictures Studio”” LtdDescription of the Production Company – history, human resources, activities"Creative Association" Riga Motion Pictures Studio"” Ltd is a legally separate structural unit of JSC Riga Motion Pictures Studio founded in 2004 with the aim of providing cinema services and dealing with audio- visual production work.Riga Motion Pictures Studio was founded in 1948. During the 45 years of work more than 200 feature films, as well as hundreds of documentaries and newsreels have been produced. Due to the hard economic situation and other reasons no active film production took place for nearly 10 years from 1992. In 2003 the new Board of Riga Motion Pictures Studio was elected. It began its work and set the target - to resume active film production. Between 2004 and 2007 Riga Motion Pictures Studio has developed a number of documentary and feature film projects, the production of which was not initiated due to the lack of funding.At present, Riga Motion Pictures Studio has 20 employees; its main activities include providing equipment and services for film production, sets and other facilities rental, audio visual production work and events.Services offered by the Production Company, its technical equipmentEquipped film stages rental (three stages, green screen, photo stage), premises for film crews.Sets design and construction. Film equipment rental (list can be viewed at studio’s website www.studio.lv).Dressmakers, make-up artists, hairdressing.Costumes rental.Filming location choice.Project development.Filming and other service to foreign cinema groups. Film, TV show production.Events.Last 10 films of the Production Company “Opera Singer on Rollerblades” (2002, Director I. Seleckis)“Farmers” (2009, Director I. Seleckis)“The Mystery of Old Parish House” (2000, Director J. Streics)“What Makes Man” (2009) (documentary, E. Ruka, Dz. Dreibergs)Participation in co-production and / or services to the film "Mona", "It Is not Spoken About”, "Midsummer Night "," A Dance for Three, "Irena's Children", "Gulf Stream Under the Ice Mountain".Production Company’s last ten (10) other types of audiovisual worksParticipation in making the following TV programs and shows "O Card Academy", "Choir Wars 2", "Star Rain", "Song Duel", "Latvian Talent", "Brain Bank", "Are You Smarter Than a 5th-grade Pupil?", "Aina Show ","Price of Success", “The Golden Family","Experiment","BingoLotto."Advertising TV series "Goldfish".International co-operation (services, co-production, distributors)Participated in international projects "Red Chapel" (Russia, TV series, 2004), "Estonia" (reconstruction of “Estonia” ferry disaster, the BBC television documentary, 2005), “Midsummer Night” (Austria, 2006), "Gulf Stream Under the Ice Mountain" (Latvia, Russia, 2009), "Irena’s Children" (Hallmark, 2008).Developed a joint project with Azerbaijan "Kubaku" (feature film, comedy, 2006-2007), production of which was not started due to the lack of funding.Achievements (prizes, nominations)“Opera Singer on Rollerblades” – Prize “Lielais Kristaps” (Big Kristaps) for the best film assembly (2003).

Lira Production is a company, which produces documentary, feature and animated films. Company co-operates with creative professionals and organizations, which are concentrated on their business and are focused not only on receiving private profit, but also think about community benefit.

The Creativity Workshop is based in New York City and is taught around the world. It was established in 1993 by writer Shelley Berc and multimedia artist Alejandro Fogel to provide an alternative to traditional forms of education and thinking. The organization is dedicated to teaching individuals and groups about their creative processes. They offer 3 University credits now for all their workshops including New York and Europe.

The festival programme offers a number of sections that include films of various categories - short films, films for children and youth, a selection of feature films that fit into the genre of the film noir and other events, e.g. a poster exhibition, workshops for children, etc.

Established in the middle of 2004, Crest Communications a.s. provides comprehensive public relations services, including consultancy, crisis communications and organising of PR campaigns. The team of experienced PR consultants, which had worked together since mid-nineties under the leadership of Ales Langr, joined the agency in January 2005. Crest Communications became member of the Czech PR association APRA (www.apra.cz) in June 2005, member of the worldwide PR network IPRN (www.iprn.com) in August 2006. 21 full timers and several external employees work in the agency today.

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Crime-Line Ltd. Has major experience in television and documentary film production. The company produces material and documentary films for several Hungarian language speaking television companies. Other services include PR-agency services. Crime-Line Ltd has service sin several fields within production, such as: • film production • television productions, editing services • PR film production • „Spot”purchasing • Hosting and organization of events, such as company related events, press conferences, exhibitions. The income is realized from film production and from the complementer PR services. The event organization also includes the opportunity of organizing the appearance in press releases. The customers of the company are from a wide range, including SME-s, Support Agencies, large television companies:

The Critics’ Circle, which makes an annual award to someone in the world of the Arts is comprised of five sections: Dance, Art and Architecture, Drama, Film and Music. The aims are to promote the art of criticism, to uphold its integrity in practice, to foster and safeguard members’ professional interests, to provide opportunities to meet, and to support the advancement of the arts. Admission to membership is by invitation of the Circle. Currently there are over 400 members, mostly from the UK, the majority of whom write regularly for national and regional newspapers and magazines.

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti

Professional association of visual artists devoted to the development, stimulation, and promotion of Croatian visual art| contemporary artistic activity| evaluation of Croatian visual art| and improvement and protection of the freedom of artistic creation and activity. Organizes art events, international art manifestations and award presentations to encourage artistic activity and contribute to public recognition of its membership.

The Croatian Audiovisual Centre (Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC) is the government-backed strategic agency for the audiovisual sector in Croatia. It aims to stimulate a successful, vibrant audiovisual industry as well as to promote the widest possible enjoyment and understanding of audiovisual works throughout Croatia. Our remit ranges from supporting production, distribution, exhibition, marketing and promotion, to professional training and supporting national film archive through the system of public subsidies.

The Croatian film archives (Croatian cinemateque) were established in 1979 at Croatian state archives as a nacional film archive with a job to collect, preserve, process and protect the nacional film fond.

A print version of the magazine is published quarterly in 1000 copies. The Croatian Film Chronicle is also available as an online film magazine with abstracts of the issued articles.

Croatian Film Association is an association of non-professional film and video groups operating in Croatia since 1928. Founded in 1963 as the Croatian Cinema Association (and the Centre for Croatian amateur cinema before that), the Association works today as part of the Croatian Technical Culture Union.

The Croatian Film Directors' Guild was established as an independent organisation by the decision of a group of film directors at the Inaugural Meeting held on February 23, 1995 in Zagreb. The Croatian Film Directors Guild is a professional, voluntary, non-partisan and non-profit association of film directors professionally engaged in the directing of films and works in other audio-visual media, who live and work on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. The Croatian Film Directors Guild is a member of the FERA.

The festival is open to all foreign and Croatian film/video makers older than 16 who are allowed to send an unlimited number of entries. The length of videos must not be longer than 60 seconds (including all titles and sound).

The Croatian State Archives is central archival institution in Croatia and perform archival services relating to archival and current records created by state bodies, state and public institutions and enterprises, and by corporate bodies, families and individuals whose activity covers the whole or a greater part of the Croatian territory, or is of State interest. In order to make the memories of Croatian nation available to public as much as possible, Croatian State Archives provide access to its documents under equal conditions for all researchers.

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The festival was founded in 2001 by a group of young artists in order to energize the film culture in Moldova, to discover new aspects of documentary film, and to draw local audiences to the genre.