About Babylon
BABYLON is an audiovisual development programme assisting filmmakers of culturally diverse origin to break through into the international mainstream, with a particular interest in migrant and diasporic stories.
Frequently unrecognized, the stories that emerge from undiscovered talents of "double culture" provide the richest untapped source of storytelling across the world.
BABYLON provides a space in which these emerging filmmakers can speak to each other and to the widest international audience, providing access and inclusion.
BABYLON NEWS
Sally el Hosaini's film My Brother the Devil (Babylon 2009) is currently screening in competition at Sundance IFF 2012 and will also screen as a Panorama Special film at the Berlinale 2012. Screening times at the Sundance IFF website ...
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Umut Dag's film Kuma (Babylon 2009) co-written with Babylon alumna Petra Ladinigg, opens the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2012.... For screening times Click here »
Dima Hamdan's The Kidnap (Babylon 2010) has won the development award of the Göteborg International Film Festival...
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BABYLON BURNING Event at 55th BFI London Film Festival
BABYLON celebrated its 5th anniversary in October with a public debate on film diversity as part of the 55th BFI London Film Festival.
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2011 Programme
2010 saw the exciting expansion of the BABYLON programme into two complementary strands, BABYLON EUROPE and BABYLON INTERNATIONAL.
BABYLON EUROPE runs project-based workshops focusing on the training and development of European filmmakers, particularly of migrant and diasporic origin and those working on cross-cultural projects.
Celebrating its 5th year in 2011, BABYLON EUROPE welcomed 16 participants and 12 projects to its annual programme, with residential workshops at Rotterdam 1-4 February, Cannes Market 13-17 May, and a successful new event established at the London Film Festival in October.
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BABYLON EUROPE is run by Scenario Films (UK). In 2011 the programme was produced in association with Mira Media (The Netherlands), Witcraft (Austria) and PlayFilm (France). It was funded by national partners Mira Media (The Netherlands), The Vienna Film Fund (Filmfonds Wien), Okto (Austria) and kindly hosted by the Goethe-Institut (Germany).
BABYLON INTERNATIONAL is a new venture forging industrial and creative links between Europe with other continents.
In 2011 BABYLON INTERNATIONAL brought together 17 European and African filmmakers in a joint script development workshop in Berlin (May 2011) and production lab in Abuja, Nigeria (September 2011) where trailers for the features were shot and edited for presentation at the Abuja Film Festival. They are now available to view online at Babylon's new web forum World4Film»
BABYLON INTERNATIONAL is run by a three-sided partnership of independent producers Script House (Berlin), Scenario Films (London) and Ciné-Sud Promotion (Paris). The funding partners are the European Union’s MEDIA Mundus and the Nigerian Film Corporation.
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Scenario Films, UK /ScriptHouse, Germany/Ciné-Sud Promotion, Paris/Mira Media, Holland/, Play Film, Paris.
