Tallinn welcomes 36 industry speakers

This year’s Industry@Tallinn programme (Nov 25-29) will welcome 36 industry speakers from a dozen countries.

The event will also include the signing of Memorandum of Mutual Interest between Estonian Film Institute and Korean Film Council (KOFIC).

The panelists on the Hollywood panel include Garrick Dion of Bold, Gloria Fan of Mosaic, Kyle Franke of XYZ and Jeff Barry of ICM. The future festivals/distribution panel will feature Jarod Neece of SXSW, Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse and Daniel Kim of Busan.

The Canadian panel includes Fantasia’s Stephanie Trepanier, Toronto’s Natalie Lue and filmmaker Malcolm Sutherland.

A South Korean panel will include producers Ellen Kim and Tae-joon Park and will be moderated by Screen’s Deputy Asia Editor Jean Noh.

There are also discussions devoted to Japanese co-production, film music, tarnsmedia and animation.

Meanwhile the festival kicked off Friday with director Louise Archambault and main actor Alexandre Landry presenting Canadian Oscar submission Gabrielle.

Festival director Tiina Lokk said: “This year’s festival presents an unprecedented number of premieres, high profile film and industry guests and an outstanding selection of films from North America over Europe to Asia. We start on full speed from day one with 40 films and will be showing 255 full length features during two weeks including many premieres and exotic gems.”

Special programmes this year include a Canadian focus, an Armenian spotlight and a Mexican Bronco programme. The Black Nights lifetime award 2013 will be given to István Szabó.

The festival runs through Dec 1.