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Ludwigsburg, December 13th, 2011


PRIME4Kids&Family - successful project presentation and instructive panel discussion in Ludwigsburg

Ludwigsburg, December 13th, 2011. PRIME4Kids&Family, Europe’s unique coaching initiative for children and family entertainment ended on last Tuesday in Ludwigsburg. The successful presentation of the 10 participating projects was followed by a panel discussion in connection to the new funding initiative for digital content in Baden-Württemberg: How to use and how to fund digital content in the field of children and family entertainment.

Started with a keynote by Jan Willem Huisman, managing director of Amsterdam based IJS Fontein, about different approaches how to use interactive media for children audiences, the panel emphasized on the constantly razing demand of transmedia productions in the field of family entertainment. “Next to the number of more than 40 projects applying, the quality and multitude of different genres and the use different types of media this year, is a proof for the growing interest in cross-over development support especially in the field of children and family entertainment. We are very happy to be able to continue the workshop in 2012. Call for applications will be opened in February next year.” emphasizes Frank Stehling, Managing Director of PRIMEHOUSE.

Amsterdam, October 20th

European Film Award for
Norwegian Feature Film Project

PRIMEHOUSE is delighted to announce the awarding of the brand new European PRIME4Kids&Family Award to the Norwegian feature film project From Mice to Men, written by Arild Tryggestad and produced by the Norwegian Production company Filmbin AS. The scriptwriter together with the junior producer Nicholas Sando received the award at the market closing of the international Cinekid film festival in Amsterdam Thursday evening.

“I am incredibly happy and surprised to be given this award. Just being nominated was very exciting, but that we actually won is more than I dared to hope for. This is a film project that we wish to go into shooting within summer 2013, so now we hope that the final financing will come together in order to be able to realise this script into film”, says Arild Tryggestad.

From Mice to Men will be awarded as the most promising project out of the 15 participating projects of Eu funded PRIME4Kids&Family development workshop 2010. “We hope this award will foster the collaboration between the different disciplines from classical screenwriting to the creation of content for interactive media. In our perspective, cross-media production, especially in the sector of Child and Family Entertainment, is the only way not to lose the children and youth audiences” Frank Stehling, founder and CEO of Primehouse said.

The P4K&F Award is the first European award dedicated to European Screen-writers for feature film as well as for authors from the fields of Animation, Television and interactive Media projects focused on child and family audiences. The project was selected from EU’s Media Programme workshop Prime 4Kids&Family. The Prime 4Kids&Family workshop is implemented by Primehouse and has been running now for over 10 years and supported more than 150 projects.

From Mice to Men will be directed by Christian Lo who has his debut in 2009 with the feature film Rafiki (original title Bestevenner), that was nominated for the Crystal Bear in Berlin 2010, and has won a number of awards including “Norwegian Children Film of the Year” awarded by the Norwegian Cinema Director’s Association.

From Mice to Men is a coming-of-age film about Daniel (12) and his two best friends who have just finished Primary School. They have great expectations towards starting Secondary School, meanwhile they are worried that they will be “eaten alive” – because they are too childish. The boys feel they need to become men and decide that each of them will take on three challenges during the summer holiday; kiss a girl, drink a beer, and touch a boob. Everything is set for the best summer ever. There is just one problem; Mari.

From Mice to Men is scriptwriter Arild Tryggestad’s first feature film script. He has previously written the short films Gutta Boys (director: Roar Uthaug) and Iver (director: Christian Lo). Arild graduated as an editor from the Norwegian Film School in 2004, and has since edited feature films, short films, documentaries, music videos, coomercials as well as the Emmy-nominated tv-series for children; Ping Pong (director: Lisa M. Gamlem).

 

Berlin, September 25th

Prime 4 Kids & Family just started:

 

Berlin, September 19th, 2011

PRIME 4Kids&Family 2011 presents family entertainment from 5 European countries represented by 10 international selected projects.

PRIME 4 Kids&Family, Europe’s unique cross media training initiative for family entertainment addresses screenwriters and creative teams developing a project for a feature film, a TV-series or interactive platforms.

Berlin-based development company PRIMEHOUSE, which has successfully re-launched the former Pygmalion program to PRIME4Kids&Family, received over 40 applications from the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Slovenia and Scotland this year.

We are happy to announce the 15 participants representing 10 projects out of 5 European countries:
The selected projects are: JOSHUA JOSHUA TANGO (Corrino Entertainment B.V., Netherlands), THE LION’S WAY (Flinck Film, Netherlands), MANOU DER MAUERSEGLER (LUXX Studios Stuttgart, Germany) MAX JOURNEY (ILVIS MEDIA SUOMI, Finland), THE MYSTERIOUS BOY (Kinorama, Croatia), NO PIG DEAL FOR MOHAMED (Ayse Buchara, Germany), POLARBEAR (Silva Mysterium Oy, Finland),  UILENBAL (Lemming Film, Netherlands), VICTOR AND THE LITTLE TOOTH FAIRY (Eva von Schirach, Germany), WEB OF WEIRD (Adam Cook, Scotland)  

“We are very pleased with this year’s projects. The multitude of international authors as well as production companies that applied proves the approach of PRIME 4Kids&Family addressing feature film, TV and interactive media projects”, emphasises Frank Stehling, Managing Director of PRIMEHOUSE. In its 10 anniversary, Prime4Kids&Family (former known as Pygmalion Plus), developed to the leading international training program focused on children and family entertainment. This year we welcome new partners: the Netherlands Film Fund, the NPO (Dutch Public Broadcaster) and the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts.

 

 

Berlin, September 5th, 2011

Indo-German Initiative
Call for Writers and Producers: Looking for European and Indian Projects to be co-produced between the two continents

With the support of „Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities“, Life Entertainment, PRIMEHOUSE & the 13. Mumbai Film Festival are looking for a Co-Production-Project in stage of development to be presented on a script development workshop from 11th to 13th of October 2011 in Mumbai. Accomodation and travel costs will be covered*.

The Script Development Workshop will be held from October 11th to 13th in Mumbai. Life Entertainment and Mumbai Film Festival will bring together some of the best script writers, directors and teachers from India and Germany. Amongst them: Dani Levy will show his feature film “My Führer” and will discuss with Indian writers and directors like Ashutosh Gowariker (Lagaan, t.b.c.) and Anjum Rajabali (Raajneeti) about International Cross-Over Influences in Indian and German Films. The Heads of screenwriting academies at dffb, Berlin and HFF, Babelsberg, Jochen Brunow and Torsten Schulz (Boxhagener Platz) will talk with Indian writers and directors about “How do stories learn to travel” and will go “From Literature to Big Screen”. Georg Heinzen (Gran Paradiso) will travel “beyond Heroes Journey” and Dr. Claudia Gladzijewski (www.script-doctors.com) will do a constellation on IndoGerman Co-Productions.

 

Berlin, August 1st, 2011

Extended deadline: August 15th - Two Scholarships offered
Project Development Workshop focused on children and family audiences in Feature Film, TV or interactive and cross media platforms and games.

Berlin 1.08.2011, due to the strong demand PRIMEHOUSE is announcing an extended Deadline for P4K&F include the offer of two scholarships which will be selected amongst the applying projects. The Scholarship will cover the participation fee, only the travel costs has to be paid.

 

 

New partnership between Primehouse, NPO Netherlands and the Netherlands Film Fund

Primehouse is delighted to announce its new collaboration with the Dutch public broadcaster NPO and the Netherlands Film Fund on the international training PRIME4Kids&Family.

P4K&F is a workshop addressed to child and family audiences specifically designed for the development of feature films, TV series and cross-media projects. In 2011 we are celebrating the 10th edition of the workshop, which in the past years has successfully assessed more than 100 projects.

Doreen Boonekamp, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, foresees a good outcome to the new partnership: "The Film Fund has been successfully supporting quality children and youth films for a number of years. Through this new collaboration we aim to further strengthen the quality and distribution of Dutch films internationally".

Frank Stehling, founder and CEO of Primehouse, regards this partnership as a key step to take the project forward: “We are very happy about this new partnership, as it will provide the participants with a great benefit in terms of know-how and production possibilities”.

 

 

May 30, 2011

Primehouse is delighted to announce the first nominees for the new Award for Children and Family Entertainment Write4Kids&Family (W4K&F). The nominees are the Norwegian Arild Tryggestad & Christian Lo, nominated with the project “From Mice to Men”, produced by Filmbin AS and the German Agnes Schruf & Korinna Schadt, with the project “Albert and the Extraterrestrial”, produced by Film-und Fernseh-Labor, Ludwigsburg.

W4K&F is the first European award dedicated to European Screen-writers for Cinema as well as for Television and interactive Media projects in the field of Child and Family Entertainment. The two nominees were selected out of the 15 participating projects of this year PRIME 4Kids&Family (P4K&F) Workshop.
One of the two projects will be finally awarded with the first Write4Kids&Family Award in the framework of the International Cinekid Film Festival in October this year.

P4K&F is a workshop addressed to child and family audiences and specifically designed for the interdisciplinary development of feature films, TV series and cross-media projects. In 2011 we are celebrating the 10th edition of the workshop, which in the past years has successfully assessed more than 100 projects.

Frank Stehling, founder and CEO of Primehouse, regards this award as a first step approaching the new media landscape of convergence and crossover productions: “We hope this award will foster the collaboration between the different disciplines from classical screenwriting of TV series to the creation of content for interactive media. In our perspective, cross-media production, especially in the sector of Child and Family Entertainment, is the only way not to lose the children and the youth audiences”.

 

May 26th, 2011

TV and physical media still drive entertainment spending
Media Research Industry Reports

Tony Gunnarsson, Screendigest

Consumer spending on total entertainment in the Western World-defined as North America and Europe-has grown by 62 per cent since 2000. This includes spending on cable & satellite TV, home video, video games, music and cinema tickets. Ten years ago Western World spending totalled $145.1bn; last year it was $235.3bn. An analysis of the shifts in consumption over the past decade shows some clear trends. The largest sector of entertainment continues to be cable and satellite TV, which already dominated a decade ago when it contributed 39 per cent of spending. The sector has expanded rapidly- increasing by 147 per cent since 2000-and now generates nearly two-thirds of total spending (59 per cent).

 

May 11th, 2011

www.primexchange.eu – first B2B platform between Europe and India focused on all aspects of film production

Berlin-based Primehouse GmbH is delighted to present PRIMEXCHANGE, the first internet based B2B network for European and Indian film professionals.

PRIMEXCHANGE aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas and know-how, and ultimately to promote transnational co-productions as well as cultural exchange between the Indian and European film and media community.

This online platform is the result of the experience we gathered with the successful PRIMEXCHANGE workshops held in the framework of the FILM BAZAAR in GOA. While the workshop is dedicated specifically to producers and screenwriters, the PRIMEXCHANGE platform is open to the whole industry, like studios, post-production companies, service providers, publishers, sales agents, distributors, financiers, funding bodies and press agencies, as well as producers, directors, screenwriters and actors.

Don’t hesitate to contact us anytime with questions or comments.

PRIMEXCHANGE is a project of Primehouse in collaboration with India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) and the European Commission MEDIA MUNDUS.

 

 

 

February 11th, 2011

RIMEXCHANGE 2011 – Call for Applications

Professional Training for Independent European and Indian Film Producers

 

 

February 11th, 2011

Call for Applications,
Deadline 2nd of July 2011

Project Development focused on children and family audiences in Feature Film, TV or interactive and cross media platforms and games

PRIMEHOUSE is delighted to open the call for this year’s PRIME 4Kids&Family Workshop(former Pygmalion Plus). The MEDIA funded European program for writers and creative teams will support the development of projects for children, young people or family audiences. PRIME 4Kids&Family is designed to develop projects from an early stage and has proved a unique resource for professionals with a particular interest in these audiences.

• Call for application February 2011
• Deadline for receipt of applications: 2 July 2011
• 1st Lab, 8 days: planed for the End of September 2011
• 2nd Lab, 3 days: planed for the beginning of December 2011
  
• Please use application form (click here)
• Participation fee: 1.500 € (covering tuition, accommodation and subsistence
  - travel not included)

 

 

 

 

Dcember 7th, 2010

PRIME4Kids&Family - successful closing of this year coaching program in Ludwigsburg

Andreas Atzwanger (NEOS Film), Margret Schepers (SWR), Anneke Dorsmann (NTR), Susanne Schosser (presenter),
Gabriele Röthemeyer, (MFG), Ulrike Stegmann (Autorin)

 

Ludwigsburg, December 7th, 2010. PRIME4Kids&Family, Europe’s unique coaching initiative for children and family entertainment ended on last Tuesday in Ludwigsburg with a successful panel discussion about the future of family entertainment. Started with a keynote by one team out of the participants group, Jans Budding and Anneke Dorsman, from Netherland, who presented their Emmy nominated cross media project “13 en de orlog” (www.13indeoorlog.nl) the panel emphasized on the constantly razing demand of crossover productions in the field of family entertainment. “The multitude of international authors respectively production companies that applied this year is proof that there is a very big need for cross-over development support in the field of children and family entertainment. So we are very happy to be able to continue the workshop in 2011. Call for applications will be opened in February next year.” emphasizes Frank Stehling, Managing Director of PRIMEHOUSE.
PRIME 4 Kids&Family, which is supported for the second time since 2008 by the MFG Film Funding Baden-Wuerttemberg and for the first time by the city of Ludwigsburg, addresses screenwriters and creative teams who are developing a project for a feature film, a TV-series and also interactive applications (games). Provided that in doing so, the projects satisfy the cultural quality requirements. “The competent and independent handling with media is a key qualification today for children and youth for the latter success in their profession and society. PRIME 4Kids&Family supports the development of high-quality children media and therefore complements the preventive approach of the initiative state of children media Baden-Wurttemberg”, explains chairman of the supervisory board MFG, minister of media Helmut Rau.
Gabriele Röthemeyer, managing director of MFG Film Funding emphasized at the opening that “children and parents are used to their heroes and stories crossing the boundaries of formats - from the book - to a TV series -  to a feature film -  to a game. They love and expect increasingly this kind of reunion in other formats. That’s the reason for our engagement to help the developing of cross media contents prosper.”

 

 

 

November 27th, 2010

Successful Project Presentation at Film Bazaar in GOA, India

GOA, 27.11.2010 – Eight selected projects of this year PRIMEXCHANGE Europe-India workshop were successfully presented at Film Bazaar in Goa, India. Organized in cooperation with the National Film Development Corporation, NFDC, and supported by the European Commission, the 7 day lab was focusing on the projects transnational market potential in order to find solutions how to implement co-operations and co-productions between India and Europe. “Participation in the coproduction market at Film Bazaar worked out very well this year. Most of our projects get very concrete funding and co-production offers,” Frank Stehling, CEO of Berlin based Primehouse GMBH said.

PRIMEXCHANGE is worldwide the first independent training initiative which focuses on a unique and multidimensional evaluation of the international market potential of European and Indian film projects at the early stage of development. The workshop provides unique insights into the specific market conditions of Europe and India and prepares the participants for the market pitch at Film Bazaar and abroad.

Plans for a new Internet based Xchange-Platform

Regarding the constantly rising demand, the first  internet based pitching-platform for both continents, Primehouse is planning to open next year. “Based on the project development stage, the Xchange-platform will offer opportunities of market presentation and networking for participants and trainers during the co-production market in Goa as well as for future co-operations. And moreover it will facilitate the presentation of projects and networking opportunities for producers who are not able to be present at FILM BAZAAR”, Frank Stehling adds.

The eight projects, represented by authors and producers out of 4 European countries and India, were coached by hands-on experts from both continents and be presented to potential co-producers on the Film Bazaar. The participating projects are Animals's people (Quadrupedal Films, UK), Between Worlds (Bombay-Berlin Film Production, India), Black Christ, (Sippy Productions, India), Constanze (Hepp Film AB, Sweden), Deluge (First Floor Productions, Finland), King of Madagascar (Magellan Film Foundation, Poland), Nobel Chor (Impact Films, India), Outsider (Chaitra Arts, India).

 

 

November 21st, 2010

Kick-Off for the final session of PRIMEXCHANGE Europe-India in in the framework of the co-produktione at Film Bazaar in GOA, India

GOA, India, the second lab of PRIMEXCHANGE just started in the framework of FILM BAZAAR, the first Indian co-production market located in GOA. Organized in cooperation with the National Film Development Corporation, NFDC, the 7 day lab is focusing on the evaluation and presentation of the projects transnational market potential in order to find solutions how to implement co-operations and co-productions between India and Europe. “The main aim of our work is to initiate market exchange and prospective collaboration between both continents,” Frank Stehling, CEO of Primehouse, said at the opening ceremony in GOA.

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October 23rd, 2010

Jihlava, Czech Republic, October 2010, in the framework of the international Workshop Ex Oriente Film, Frank Stehling, CEO of PRIMEHOUSE gave a lecture on packaging for documentaries. The workshop was completed with the East European Forum pitching sessions that will boost funding efforts of the attending projects.

The third and last of three session was dealing mainly with practical skills that are required for the presentation of the project and pitching. However, its main theoretical themes are distribution plan and sales, post-pitching negotiation techniques for documentaries, as well as communication strategies to enlist the support of European broadcasters.

For more information please click here

 

October 13th, 2010

Kick-Off for the second run of PRIMEXCHANGE Europe–India during International Warsaw Film Festival

Warsaw, 13.10.2010 - The selected eight projects, with authors and producers out of 4 European countries and India, are: Animals's people (Quadrupedal Films, UK), Between Worlds (Bombay-Berlin Film Production, India), Black Christ, (Sippy Productions, India), Constanze (Hepp Film AB, Sweden), Deluge (First Floor Productions, Finland), King of Madagascar (Magellan Film Foundation, Poland), Nobel Chor  (Impact Films, India), Outsider (Chaitra Arts, India).
PRIMEXCHANGE targets film producers from India and Europe - seeking co-production opportunities. The vision of PRIMEXCHANGE is to initiate market exchange and prospective collaboration between both continents in the field of film production.

PRIMEXCHANGE is worldwide the first independent training initiative which focuses on a unique and multidimensional evaluation of the international market potential of European and Indian film projects at the early stage of development. Experts from both territories, India and Europe, contribute to the process. Beside the National Film Development Cooperation India (NFDC), the Indian film industry will be represented by Sunhil Doshi (Alliance Media & Entertainment), Sandeep Bhargava (India Film Company), Ashish Bhatnagar (I-Dream World Sales) and Dina Dattani. Europe will be represented by Stephan Holl (Rapid Eye Movies), Jeremy Gawade (Lee&Thompson), Dorothée Pfister (Mk2 World Sales) and Phil Parker (Script Consultant).  For more information please click here

The workshop starts at October 13th – 16th with a first lab, in Warsaw, Poland organized in cooperation with the Polish Filmmaker Association and the Polish Film Institute. The 4 day Lab is focusing on script-evaluation in order to define the transcontinental potential of the content.
The second lab at November 20th – 27th, will take place in the framework of GOA FILM BAZAAR the first co-production market in India. Organized in cooperation with the National Film Development Corporation, NFDC, the 7 day lab is focusing on the evaluation and the presentation of the projects transnational market potential in order to find solutions how to implement co-operations and co-productions between India and Europe.

 

September 20th, 2010

PRIMEXCHANGE Europe - India,
extended application deadline September 27th

Due to the strong demand of producers from both, India and Europe, we have extended the application deadline until September 27th.

In addition to that, we offer the possibility to advertise companies or pitch projects which might be not selected in the framework of the booklet we will publish again this year. Everybody who is interesting in this opportunity please have a look here

 

September 2nd, 2010

PRIME 4Kids&Family 2010 - unique cross-media training initiative for family entertainment welcomes 8 European countries representing the 15 selected projects.

PRIME 4 Kids&Family, former Pygmalion Plus - Europe’s unique cross media training initiative for family entertainment addresses screenwriters and creative teams who are developing a project for a feature film, a TV-series and also interactive applications (games).

Berlin-based PRIMEHOUSE, which has successfully relaunched the former Pygmalion program to PRIME4Kids&Family, received over 40 participation requests from France, Poland, Austria, Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Germany and Italy. At least the jury selected 15 projects which are representing 8 European countries.
The selected projects are: Lena and the King of Snakes (WILDart film, Austria), Albert the Extraterrestrial (Film- u. Fernsehlabor, Germany); Alberto, Zach and the Big Bang (Martina Klein, Germany), Fina – the one day fly (Ulrike Stegmann, Germany), FresserWisser/CritterSnatchers (ZipZoomZap Design, Germany), The Legend of Vineta (Ulysses Filmproduktion, Germany), Lupo Gentile (Arsenale 23, Italy, Bloody Cheap (NPS, Netherland), From Mice to Men (Filmbin AS, Norway), Broszka (Aurora Film Production S.C, Poland), Telepastele (SPI Film Studio, Poland), The little Red Paper Ship (MiniMondo Filmproduction, Poland), The Storm Cloud Odyssey (Agnieszka Sadurska, Poland), Tostissimo (Levain Film Development, Sweden), Nini and the Red Wall (Edwards Windus, UK).

“We are very happy about this year projects. The multitude of international authors respectively production companies that applied is proof that the relaunch of former Pygmalion to PRIME 4Kids&Family with its special approach was being welcomed and talked about abroad and not at least we see the obviously very big need for programs like P4K&F,“ emphasises Frank Stehling, Managing Director of PRIMEHOUSE. The first of two “Centers“ of PRIME4Kids&Family 2010 will take place in the Countryside of North Poland from October 3rd  - 11th  2010. The second one will take place by the end of the year in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

 

 

August 8th, 2010

PRIMEXCHANGE  EUROPE-INDIA #2
Unique forum for Indian and European Producers