FilmEU

Wednesday the 16^th of March in room A021 Cineclub was held.  This time the Cineclub will be held by Baltic Film Media and Arts School (BFM) https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm

Goodbye Soviet Union is a first feature of director Lauri Randla, based loosely on his childhood. The film was released during Covid cinema-closures, but still managed to become the most seen Estonian film in Finnish cinemas. It went on to win multiple awards and A-list festival nominations, including Camerimage Golden Frog nomination, Tallinn Black Nights Festival Audience Award and many others.

Johannes is born into an Ingrian-Finnish family in the Estonian Soviet Republic. When his mother leaves for Finland, and he’s left to be raised by his grandparents, Johannes is forced to face life on his own. He falls deeply in love with his classmate Vera, takes risks, gets into fights, and gets punished. All the while, in the background, the Evil Empire collapses. As the Lenins fall and the Barbie dolls take over, the crocodile Genas and the Moskvitches are forced to step aside, leaving the road to the West wide open. Lauri Randla’s Goodbye, Soviet Union is a comedy about the adventures of the eccentric Tarkkinen family in the last days of the Soviet Union.

The screening will be followed by Q&A with Elen Lotman, the cinematographer of Goodbye Soviet Union.

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The next FilmEU Cineclub will be held by LUCA School of Arts on 16th February, 17h (CET).

We are proud to present an all-female edition! We will screen 5 animated short films from 5 different directors. Subsequently, all 5 directors will be present at LUCA for a Q&A open for all students and streaming for all FilmEU Schools!!!

The first film is by Sine Öziblige with #21x0x0!  21x0x0 is a surreal and humorous reflection of the 21st century. It depicts a girl and her online search for love in times of social media, speed-dating, cyberlove, hipster culture and post-net attitudes.

The second is Juliette by Lora D’Addazio! Lora takes us on a dark and twisted car ride in erotic animated horror short.

The third is Nienke Deutz with Bloeistraat 11!  Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses, an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

The fourth is Amours Libres by Emily Worms! Amours Libres is about two friends who tell us their way of loving freely. It’s a tale of polyamory and politics.

Finally the fifth is Joke Van Den Hof with Mamada Perdida! “A melting paradise with a love game of two in it, who lose themselves in the passion of being each other’s first love.”

Location:
Cinema Fernando Lopes (Lusófona University)
Campus Sint-Lukas, C-3.17 (LUCA School of Arts)
IADT Dun Laoghaire
Tallinn University

Cineclub #2 is taking place on Wednesday the 10^th of November.  Four film nights are being organized throughout the academic year 2021-2022.  Each partner of the FilmEU alliance invites students and staff to watch a film that will take place simultaneously at the four institutions.  Students will not only watch an international film but they will also get a chance to participate in a masterclass with a question and answers session with guest speakers.  The second film of this series, is the Irish produced film Arracht and the Director Tom Sullivan will be available for discussion after the show.

Cineclub is where four film nights will be organized throughout the academic year 2021-2022.  Each partner of the FilmEU alliance will organize a night where students and staff can watch a film that will take place simultaneously at the four institutions.  These screenings will take place on the 20^th of October, 10^th of November and the 9^th of February and March.  Students will not only watch an international film but they will also get a chance to participate in a masterclass with a question and answers session with guest speakers.  The first film Vitalina Varela is Portuguese and the Director Pedro Costa will be available for discussion after the show.

Ruben Vandenborre is a Flemish screenwriter and director and a graduate of The Luca School of Arts. After graduating with his short film ‘Vriend van Goud’, he gained experience as a producer at Woestijnvis and on the set of fiction productions such as Gent-West.

His heart belongs to the children and family genre and he has written the screenplays for the Flemish-Dutch Netflix Christmas films ‘The Claus Family’, ‘The Claus Family 2’ and ‘The Claus Family 3’. He also directed the second movie and start shooting the third next July.

Besides that, he’s also the producer of ‘Hacked’, the first youth series of his production company Dingie, which won the Short form competition at Cannes.

Emer Reynolds is an Emmy award-winning Director and Film Editor, based in Dublin, Ireland.

Having studied Theoretical Physics in Trinity College, Dublin, Emer enjoyed a successful and multi-award winning 20 year career as a Film Editor, spanning features, TV Drama and documentaries, before transitioning into directing.

THE FARTHEST, her multi-awarded feature documentary on the Voyager spacecraft, won the 2018 EMMY for OUTSTANDING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DOCUMENTARY and the prestigious 2018 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award.

Emer’s debut feature documentary, the Grierson nominated HERE WAS CUBA – which she co- directed with John Murray – tells the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and garnered widespread acclaim for its riveting and visceral storytelling.

Her critically acclaimed third feature documentary SONGS FOR WHILE I’M AWAY – a poetic, celebratory and intimate look at the life and work of iconic Thin Lizzy frontman, Philip Lynott – has just enjoyed a wide international cinema release and was recently broadcast on BBC2.

Emer has just completed her debut narrative feature JOYRIDE written by Ailbhe Keogan, which stars Oscar-winner Olivia Colman alongside newcomer Charlie Reid, and is due for cinema release in Summer ’22. Her next film project, an adaptation of passionate novel MONTPELIER PARADE by Dubliner Karl Geary, is slated for shoot in Winter ‘22.

Joachim Vleminckx is guiding the art team through the deep dungeons of game creation since 2014 for Larian Studios. Larian Studios was a small game company in Belgium till their first crowdfunded success, Divinity: Original Sin, won over 150 awards and nominations and grow out of one of the best RPG game studios in the world.

Joachim worked as an Environment artist for almost 10 years before he started to work as an ART Director for the successful game Divinity: Original Sin 2. This game was launched with a 93 Metacritic rating, as well as over 160 awards (Including the Bafta for Best Multiplayer Game) and counting! Thanks to the success of these two games, the Larian family has grown to over 300 people around the world, working in Ghent, Quebec, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Guildford and Barcelona studios.

Currently Joachim is working on the game, Baldur’s Gate 3 that is in Early Access.

Making any game is an adventure. Joachim will talk about his art adventures in creating believable game worlds for international RPG games.

Eímear Noone is a Dublin based conductor and award-winning Irish composer, composing extensively for film and videogame. As one of the world’s premier composers of games scores, Eímear is responsible for some of the most enduring soundscapes on World of Warcraft and other best-selling video games. Through her music on World of WarCraft, Eímear’s music has reached over a 100 million people and continually inspired players to invent and build new worlds for nearly 15 years. Her composition portfolio of 26 film and video-game titles have received multiple industry accolades including the “Hollywood Music in Media Award” for “Best Video Game Score”.

Recently, Eímear composed the score for the animated feature film, ‘Two by Two: Overboard’, which topped the UK Box Office in October 2020. She has also worked on film scores for directors such as Gus Van Sant and Joe Dante, orchestrating for Oscar nominee Javier Navarrette (composer of “Pan’s Labyrinth”) creating haunting music for thrillers Mirrors and The Hole.

Alongside composing, Eímear conducts orchestras worldwide – notably in 2020, Eímear made history by becoming the first female conductor to perform at the 92nd Academy Award’s ceremony.

As a leading conductor of video game programmes, Eimear has conducted orchestras including Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Danish National Symphony and she was chosen by Nintendo to conduct the first ever 3D filming of a game score and has recorded game scores for Sony Interactive. She has also toured as conductor for The Legend of Zelda, Symphony of the Goddesses, a full four-movement symphony created from the themes from this iconic videogame. Eímear was invited to conduct on the 25th Anniversary recording, which set industry records for soundtrack sales.

As one of the first night mayors in the world, Mirik Milan has played an instrumental role in the reshaping of Amsterdam’s nightlife scene into one of the most vibrant and economically robust in the world, and his innovative position is been replicated in major cities around the world, like New York, Paris and London.

Nowadays Mirik Milan is a nightlife consultant, co-founder of VibeLab and author of the paper ‘Governing the night-time city: The rise of night mayors as a new form of urban governance after dark’. In January 2020 the journal Urban Studies released this first qualitative study on night mayors around the world. To date 65 cities installed a similar position in their cities in the recent years.

VibeLab is a purpose drive consultancy agency, developing strategies and trailblazing a largely untapped research field: life at night. In 2017 VibeLab launched a research methodology named Creative Footprint (CFP) for measuring creativity in cities at night.

The CFP is a data drive initiative that maps and indexes creative space to measure the impact of nightlife and cultural activity on cities globally. The methodology goes beyond economic impact, prioritizing original content, interdisciplinary connections, and cross-functional spaces for thriving local scenes. CFP empowers grassroots movements that fuel innovations for the creative and cultural industries. The study benchmarks cities to better understand the health and mechanisms behind successful creative places. CFP was conducted data mappings of Berlin, New York, Tokyo and Stockholm is forthcoming.

In 2020 VibeLab launched an online hub of international knowledge exchange, for anyone interested in the planning and protection of life after dark named: Nightime.org.

The event is free, but registration is necessary: Link here

STEN KAUBER / Junior Research Fellow/ Freelance Film Critic /Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture /Tallinn University

What will cinema-going look like after the crisis and what will lure audiences back to cinema theatres? The talk envisions future elements of cinema culture by drawing on the speaker’s ongoing PhD research project, which deals with how film experiences are being shaped by production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption practices.

Sten is currently finishing his PhD dissertation, which examines Estonian film audiences multidimensionally by focusing on the practices that shape and encourage film consumption. His research interests include audience studies, production studies, film culture, film criticism, and material culture.

The event is free, but registration is mandatory. Link here.

TIM WAGENDORP | Sustainability coordinator | Flanders Audiovisual Fund | Belgium

“Having an environmental background, I feel somehow atypical in the audio-visual sector.” After working as an environmental scientist and policy expert for a federation of reuse companies, Tim Wagendorp has been the sustainability coordinator at the VAF since March 2017. “My main focus is on VAF-supported film and media productions, but I also raise awareness at other VAF-related areas like at physical cinemas, during the screenwriting process, games, animation and in education. We use the Sustainable Development Goals as a moral compass for our work. We exchange our knowledge as much as possible and play an active role within Green Screen (and EURECA), Cineregio and EFAD. ”

The event is free, but registration is mandatory. Link here

Lenny Abrahamson is one of Ireland’s best known and respected film and television directors. He is known for directing such praised independent films as Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (2007), What Richard Did (2012), and Frank (2014).

In 2015, he received widespread recognition for directing Room, based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue. The film received four nominations at the 88th Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Abrahamson. In 2020, he directed six episodes of and executive produced the television series Normal People, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series.

The event is free, but registration is mandatory. Link here.

Manuel José Damásio holds a Ph.D in Media studies by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a tenure by Universidade do Minho. He is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Film and Media Arts Department at Lusófona University. He holds a vast experience in consulting and production concerning several areas of the field of audiovisual and multimedia production. He is the author of several papers and chapters in international peer-reviewed publications and was the principal investigator in numerous international R&D projects. He is the chair of GEECT – the European association of film and media schools and a member of the board of CILECT – International association of film and media schools. He is the coordinator of FILMEU.

The event is free, but registration is mandatory. Link here.

FilmEU believes Europe has all the right leads needed in order to play a key role at international level in the area of Film and Media Arts. These include the rel­evance of Europe’s historical filmic cultural heritage, the dynamism of its production sector, which services all creative outputs from pure entertainment to the highest artistic formats, and the unique educational offer already in place.

We share the belief that cinema and media arts lie at the centre of social transformations and economic growth which the creative sector can spur if proper collaborative networks are successfully erected. Building on more than a decade of success­ful cooperation, we envision positioning ourselves as key players in driving education, innovation and research in Film and Media Arts and in promoting the central role the creative and cultural industries can and should have in our societies.

In order to do so, FilmEU institutions will deepen their existing collaboration. We will develop and implement a joint governance model that engages all stakeholders including students. We will reinforce mobility within the Alliance via the implementation of digital tools. We will develop new joint programmes while harmonising the curriculum and pedagogical approaches of existing ones. We will increase the sharing of resources, services and staff in the context of joint education and research activi­ties. Moreover, we will jointly work in order to increase the overall capacity and competitiveness of our institutions.

Management Team

Barry Dignam | Head of Department of European Projects

Rónán O’Muirthile | Head of Faculty of Film, Art & Creative Technology

Linda Carroll | European Projects Coordinator

Academic Leads
Conor Brennan
Damien Byrne
Deirdre O’Toole
David Quin

Working Group
Paul Curran
Claire McGing
Maurice Coen
Colm Hennessy
Elena Somoza
Ruth Barry
Diog O’Connoll
Brian Carty
Stephen Boyd
Michael Connerty
Frank Reid

• A common joint governance structure that will implement cooperatively designed policies and action plans in order to increase the profile of Film and Media Arts education, innovation and research in Europe;
• Common degrees with harmonized curriculums and alternative paths of specialization and embedded mobility;
• A network of centres of competences named “FILMEU HUB” based on a number of common infrastructures – labs – that span the main areas of research and technical expertise on which the consortium is focused and that support an innovative challenge based pedagogical model;
• Common virtual spaces and digital tools for learning and services including a virtual learning and collaboration space, a common production management tool, a common media management tool and repository, and a common media facilities and equipment management tool;
• The harmonisation of existing curricula at the bachelor level and three new Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees and a joint PhD programme, coupled with a common quality assurance system, a common staff development program focusing on pedagogical competences as well as a common tenure system to attract and retain talent.

• The design and enactment of a set of common structures of governance and sharing of human resources, physical and virtual infrastructure;
• The implementation of joint digital services and common system for digitize mobility management;
• The positioning of entrepreneurship education as a vital part of all the programmes offered by the Alliance;
• The implementation of a common model for practice and artistic-based research and a common tenure system;
• The development of new joint educational programmes at all levels, from bachelor to PhD, to attract students from all over the world in order to build a multicultural community of engaged and critically aware citizens.