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The Nights
are Black
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Enters Next Stage of Evolution
Again
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival has come of age since becoming a FIAPF (and a socalled A-category) festival in 2014. This year will see exciting upgrades in the festival’s programme and the launch of several new initiatives that are expected to spearhead a new era of cooperation and innovation in the audiovisual sector of the Baltic Sea region. By Hannes Aava
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arge film festivals like Cannes and Berlin reach headlines thanks to star-studded red carpets and big films. But their responsibility to cultivate the film industry goes much further than their fancy façade as they organise
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supportive film funds, talent camps and much more. By accepting the new statute for promoting world cinema, the head of BNFF, Tiina Lokk, has set a course for Tallinn to also switch gears and become a platform for our region’s creative industries.
Two major leaps that were taken were the launch of the first North European content and media tech incubator Storytek and establishing Creative Gate – an international platform that serves as a gateway for the regional film and audiovisual industries. The idea is to provide