First Cut Lab launches new workshops across Europe
The Great Freedom by Wendla Nölle, which participated in a previous edition of First Cut Lab
A couple of months ago, First Cut Lab announced its expansion into Western Europe, with Belgium and Switzerland organising their first editions (see the news). Now, the workshop, dedicated to feature films in the editing phase, has decided to expand even further and has unveiled its next stops and various new partnerships in Slovakia, the Netherlands and the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, aiming to offer tailor-made labs to the local industries.
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BRATISLAVA: The Slovak/Czech/Polish coproduction debut of Czech director Martin Kuba,
Three Weeks Under the Sea / Tri týždne pod morom, is currently in preproduction. The production of the film had originally been planned to begin in the winter of 2020 but was rescheduled for 2021.
Forty days of filming are planned in northeastern Slovakia, the Czech Republic and in the Silesian region of Poland between December 2021 and February 2022.
Three Weeks Under the Sea tells the story of Michal, who returns to his hometown for his father s funeral. He finds out that the coffin is empty and the funeral was a fraud. He sets out in search of the truth about his father, who was a Russian military attaché in Czechoslovakia. Michal gets involved with his father s old friends, who form the local Russian mafia.
BRATISLAVA: First Cut Lab Slovakia, the consultancy programme designed for Slovak feature films in the editing phase, will take place online within th.
The Auschwitz Report, the animated short film by emerging directors
Michaela Mihályiová and
David Štumpf,
SH T HAPPENS, has qualified for the 2021 Oscar nominations in the Best Short Film category. The short film, combining colourful drawing techniques with Risomat, was first presented in the Orrizonti section at the 2019 Venice Film Festival and became the first animated Slovak film to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.
SH T HAPPENS, a 13-minute fable and a cross between Noah’s Ark and
Titanic, has netted 14 awards and played at 100 film festivals.
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