Babylon International
In a major new development for BABYLON, the fourth edition launching January 2010 will build a bridge between the filmmakers of Europe and West Africa.
Workshops based in the Netherlands and Nigeria will develop fourteen selected projects from outline or first draft phase, seven each from West Africa and from Europe. The selected producers and writer-directors will meet on both continents to compare working notes, to share creative aims through the development of their projects and to expand their industrial networks across two continents.
Building on the successful model established over its first three years, BABYLON will retain and expand its European workshops while adding a crucial new phase in West Africa.
The first workshop will be held in Europe during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 30th-February 4th); the second in Africa at the Nigerian Film Institute in Jos culminating with a presentation during the Zuma film festival in Abuja (April 27th - May 5th).
Developing its founding purpose of uniting filmmakers of Europe's diasporic minorities in the search for new voices and new markets, BABYLON invites all interested European filmmakers to spearhead a new European approach to other audiovisual cultures by forging film communities with their colleagues in West Africa, who are cordially invited to share their talent and experience with the film industries of Europe.
All European and West African filmmakers with a proven interest in working cross-continentally are invited to submit their proposed projects to BABYLON by Friday November 27th 2009.
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BABYLON INTERNATIONAL is led by BABYLON co-producers Script House (Berlin), Scenario Films (London) and Play Film (Paris) and is funded by the European Union's MEDIA International, the Nigerian Film Corporation and the Centre National du Cinéma, Gabon, as well as by BABYLON's existing sponsors the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, Filmfonds Wien and Mira Media.
