Avapressikonverents -- 16. PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

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16. PÖFFi avapressikonverentsil Nordea majas kõnelevad Andreas Laane (Nordea pank), Neeme Kari (PÖFFi tegevjuht), Mari-Liis Rebane (Animated Dreams), Mikk Granström (Just Film), Ave Ungro (Sleepwalkers) and Tiina Lokk (PÖFFi direktor). -- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has grown to be one of the largest and most distinctive film events in the whole of Northern Europe. During its 15th edition the festival screened more than 500 films (including 260 full length), bringing over 666 screenings to a record-breaking audience of over 70,000 people as well as over 500 industry guests and journalists. In 2012 the festival will celebrate 100 years of Estonian Cinema. Recognised by FIAPF, PÖFF embraces a cluster of events, accommodating two full-blown sub-festivals (Animated Dreams and Just Film) as well as international industry gatherings (e.g. Black Market and Baltic Event). Altogether, PÖFF includes three international competitive programmes (EurAsia, Tridens Baltic, and North-American indie films), a traditional film festival programme with documentaries and feature films as well as a programme for short films. The festival hosts a special programme in cooperation with Screen International -- Critics' Choice, several retrospectives, a programme for prize-winning films from other festivals and other special programmes. Animated Dreams has established itself as the biggest animation film festival in North-Eastern Europe, screening an international competition of short animations alongside non-competitive programmes, filmmaker retrospectives and country focus. In 2011 it included a new networking and training event AnimaCampus Tallinn with applicants from five continents and more than 30 countries. The festival also plans to launch an online talent and project market in the first quarter of 2012. Just Film is the biggest children and youth film festival in the region. The festival includes a programme called streetCULTure, which consists of both fiction and documentary films that tackle the topics of modern subcultures among young people. The festival is truly designed for its young audiences -- the best films are selected by juries of local youngsters whilst the festival blog is created by young film critics who post their daily reviews of the films. The industry events bring important industry players to PÖFF, including producers, industry leaders and distributors from Europe, Asia and beyond. Black Market is the regional film market, focusing mainly on new films from neighbouring regions and smaller film industry countries from as Central and Eastern Europe, Nordics, CIS and Russia. Black Market is also home to sub-events, such as the literary rights market Books To Films that introduces an annual selection of books for film adaptation and has been growing in popularity. The seminar programme Industry Days recently focused on the changing economies of the film industry and how different countries are dealing with the seismic shifts in changes in funding and finance. The film and co-production gathering Baltic Event screens the newest feature films from the Baltic countries along with a co-production market open for projects from the Baltic countries, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Scandinavia. Events and panel discussions are also available on Black Market Online -- an online B2B environment for film industry that includes industry contacts, country profiles and statistics, co-production projects and an online screening room for buying and selling film rights in Baltic, Scandinavian, Central-Asian, Caucasian, and Russian territories.