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Tallinn Industry Confab Widens Program to Highlight Next Gen of Storytellers: Head Marge Liiske Discusses This Year’s Program
Marge Liiske joins us to discuss this year's Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event program, its new initiatives and cinema's societal responsibility.
As Liiske points out, several titles selected for this year’s festival are past industry presentations, such as last year’s industry winners “Mamifera” by Spain’s Liliana Torres, which bowed earlier in San Sebastian and SXSW and screens at Tallinn’s Best of Fests; Lithuanian “Southern Chronicles” by Ignas Miškinis; and “Two of Me” by Estonian twin brothers Raul and Romet Esko, due to screen respectively at Tallinn’s Baltic and First Film competitions. Commenting on her 2024 market lineup, Liiske, who has led Tallinn & Industry @ Baltic Event for the past 11 years, says the heavy Eurimages film and series awards have “definitely weighed in” on attracting top-end projects. Having Germany as the country Focus, a major European territory that has cut down its co-productions with the Baltics in recent years, will be an opportunity, says Liiske, to ask “why?” It will also give attendees a clearer picture of the current national and regional funding landscape and 2025 reforms to the German Federal Film Board (FFA), to be explained on stage Nov. 21 by Bérénice Honold, advisor to the CEO for international and European affairs at the FFA.
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