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Content Budapest, wrap up: the CEE region has a good future
CONTENT BUDAPEST 2023 finished yesterday its three days of conferences, panels and networking. It was a pity the situation of two events in the same city in two weeks, because it stopped more people to take benefit of very good talks and networking that the CEE region really needs to surpass the current cross-roads of the war, local production and digitalization.CONTENT was a very well-organized event that could have had a double of attendance in another context. It had high-end ‘buyers’ as speakers at the panels, as it can be seen on the attached pictures.
We repeat the numbers we inferred yesterday: 450 registered people, including 200 buyers. On site, there were around 200 people total per day, the two first days. The content winners of the event? The pitch award of USD 20,000 went to "Rumbarumbamm", an Hungarian series written by Agota Benedek, narrating an abortion through the pandemic, a war and an economic crisis.
The special mention award was for "Chopin", a series of Balassa Films (Mexico) with the producers of "Amelie" and the director of "Homeland", which considers the famous compositor as the world's first rockstar.
Last day conferences? At 'State of the CEE Nation', Victoria Yarmoshchuk, CEO, Film UA Group (Ukraine) said: ‘Today it is easier to get co-productions for Ukraine from Western Europe than from Eastern Europe. It is key the union of production companies to achieve greater competitiveness’.
Dariusz Jablonski, CEO Apple Film (Poland): ‘The Polish productions are very creative and there is a large investment in streaming platforms in the country. So, Poland will be on top of the move for the upcoming years’.
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