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Latest press releases:  

2020-08 PM #2 More than 16 Mentors and Experts take a seat on SOFA – Successful start of SOFA’s 8th edition (ENG)

2020-08 PM #1 SOFA reveals the Participants of the 8th Edition (ENG) & (DE)

2020-06 PM #3 Six Participants Pitch Projects at “eVilnius”

2020-05 PM #2 Cultural Entrepreneurs Watch Out! – Call for Proposals (ENG) & (DE)

2020-04 PM #1 Tbilisi Workshop Goes Digital

2019-09 PM#3 Second edition in Vilnius

2019-07 PM#2 New SOFA Line-Up and name!

2019-04 PM#1 SOFA goes Tbilisi: Up, Up, Up for the Third Year / Proposal Call

Latest news picks:  

2020-06 Cineuropa REPORT: SOFA Success Stories 2019/2020

2020-06 Lithuanian Film Centre: Šeši dalyviai pristatė savo projektus „eVilnius“ (Lithuanian)

2020-06 Vilnius Film Office: Šeši dalyviai pristatė savo projektus „eVilnius“ (Lithuanian)

2020-04 Blickpunkt Film: SOFA goes Digital (German)

2020-04 Imdb: Sofa Tbilisi workshop goes online – Industry / Market – Georgia

2020-04 Cineuropa: SOFA Tbilisi workshop goes online

2020-04 Filmneweurope: SOFA 2020 Tbilisi workshop will be held online from 25 to 30 April

2020-02 Variety: Berlinale’s Female Filmmakers Demand Funding Overhaul

2020-02 Variety-VIDEO: Panel discussion with SOFA participant Nino Chichua

2020-02 Hollywood Reporter: ‚Servants‘ (‚Sluzobnici‘), produced by SOFA participant Katarína Tomková

2020-02 Screen Daily: ‚Servants‘ (‚Sluzobnici‘), produced by SOFA participant Katarína Tomková

2020-02 Variety: ‚Kill It And Leave This Town‘ Review, produced by SOFA tutor Ewa Puszczyńska

2019-09 Cineuropa: SOFA selects participants for its Vilnius workshop

2019-09 FilmNewEurope: SOFA Workshop in Vilnius

2019-07 Variety: School of Film Advancement Reveals Latest Projects

2019-07 Blickpunkt:Film: Teilnehmer der 7. SOFA-Workshop-Reihe angekündigt (German)

2019-07 FilmNewEurope: SOFA – SCHOOL OF FILM ADVANCEMENT Reveals the New Line-Up

2019-07 IMDb: School of Film Advancement Reveals Latest Projects

2019-07 Projekat “Snovi na platnu” Drite Llolle selektovan za sedmo izdanje programa SOFA (Montenegrin)

2019-07 ina-online: Projekti “Andrra n`beze” i Drita Llollës përzgjidhet për edicionin e shtatë të programit SOFA

2019-07 Filmportal: SOFA – School Of Film Advancement gibt die Teilnehmer der siebten Workshopreihe bekannt (German)

2019-04 Cineuropa: SOFA goes to Tbilisi and announces call for projects

2019-04 Sputnik Georgia: SOFA announces call for projects

2019-03 Novinky.cz: How to make rain? A visit to the NaFilm Museum (Czech)

2019-02 Vltava: The playful National Film Museum has gained new premises (Czech)

2019-01 FilmNewEurope: National Film Museum Opens in Prague 

2019-01 Expats.cz: NaFilM National Film Museum opens tomorrow in Prague

2018-10 LRT: Lithuanian TV-Interview with Kestutis Drazdauskas

2018-09 Cineuropa: SOFA continues to train up “cultural agents”

2018-08 Vilnius Film Office: SOFA launches pilot workshop

2018-08 SOFA – School of Film Agents launches pilot workshop in Vilnius

2018-08 Sydneysbuzz:  Sofa — School of Film Agents 2018 line-up revealed

2018-08 FNE Speaks to SOFA Director Nikolaj Nikitin

2018-07 VARIETY EXCLUSIVE: SOFA Unveils Participants, Experts for Sixth Edition

2018-07 ScreenDaily: SOFA 2018 workshop programme to feature six projects

2018-07 FilmNewEurope: SOFA School of Film Agents 2018 Announces Participants

2018-07 Cineuropa: SOFA reveals six participants for its sixth edition

2018-07 Blickpunkt:Film: Programm für sechsten SOFA-Workshop steht (German)

2018-05 Participant  Kestutis Drazdauskas opened his first SOFA project cinema (Lithuanian)

2018-04 Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission reports on current and upcoming SOFA events (Polish)

2018-04 Georgian business news network bm.ge with Tamara Tatishvilli on SOFA (Georgian)

2018-04 kvira.ge knows SOFAs schedule (Georgian)

2018-04 Georgian News-Website Events.ge on SOFA workshop Tbilisi (Georgian)

2018-04 Georgian TV „Rustavi 2“ interview with SOFA mentor Tamara Tatishvilli and our Georgian participant (Georgian)

2018-04 FilmNewEurope on the second workshop in Georgia

2017-08 Polish newspaper RZECZPOSPOLITEJ on SOFA (Polish)

2017-08 FilmNewEurope: SOFA announces its mentors 

2017-08 German media industry news magazine Blickpunkt:Film on SOFA (German)

2017-07 Film & TV Kamera Poland presents the SOFA class of 2017/18 (Polish)

2017-07 TVP Kultura introduces our seven participants (Polish)

2017-07 Polish Film Institute covers our latest press release #3 (Polish)

2017-07 „The 5th SOFA Edition Announces Selection“ – FilmNewEurope

2017-07 Polish Filmmaker Association covering our latest press release #3 (Polish)

2017-07 Cineuropa presents our new generation of film agents

2017-07 Nikolaj Nikitin presents SOFA at the 24th European Film Festival Palić (Video)

2017-07 SOFA to announce it’s participants for the 5th edition (Serbian)

2017-07 VARIETY Interview with SOFAs Nikolaj Nikitin

2017-05 TV-Newsreport on SOFA including interviews (Georgian/English)

2017-05 Georgian Ministry of Culture on SOFA (Georgian)

2017-05 Jako radio reports on SOFAs visit to the Georian Ministry of Culture (Georgian)

2017-05 Sputnik Georgia visits the SOFA workshop (Georgian)

2017-05 Artnews reports on the Georgian workshop (Georgian)

2017-04 The Polish Film Institute spreads our proposal call

2017-04 FilmNewEurope covering our call for proposals

2017-03 Interview with SOFA participant Jan Naszewski on Cineuropa

2017-02 Watch Dumitru Marians Interviews with the SOFA tutors on Vimeo  

2016-12 FilmNewEurope on the SOFA project Baltic View 

2016-11 Afisha tut.by on Lizaveta Bobrykavas project Bel:Cinema (Russian)

2016-11 Older ARTE report on Iris Elezi’s project (French / English subtitles)

2016-11 Big german news article on the SOFA project (German)

2016-10 ABC News Albania Interview with Iris Elezi (Video)

2016-10 News Interview with Magdalena Puzmujźniak (Video)

2016-09 moldovenii.md on Dumitru Marians project (Moldova)

2016-09 diez  on Dumitru Marians project (Moldova)

2016-09 Wyborcza Poznan on Magdalena Puzmujźniaks project (Polish)

2016-08 noi.md on Dumitru Marians project (Moldova)

2016-08 Unimedia on Dumitru Marians project

2016-07 Website of the Wroclaw Film Commission (polish)

2016-07 The Polish Film Institute covering SOFA kickoff (polish)

2016-07 Georgian National Film Center on the kickoff (georgian)

2016-07 Screendaily article

2016-07  Wrocław 2016 and FilmNewEurope covering 2016 kickoff 

2016-03 SOFA participant Cristian Hordila on his workshop experience [Video]

2016-03 SOFA-Interview with Dieter Kosslick [Video]

2016-03 Variety exclusive –  SOFA Training Program Adds Georgia Workshop