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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 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
Kickoff for the third edition of SOFA!
Nikolaj Nikitin announces participants and lecturers at Karlovy Vary
Round 2! Kickoff for the 2nd edition of SOFA
Nikolaj Nikitin announces workshop participants and lecturers
So Far, So Good! First School of Film Agents (SOFA) successfully completed
Denn sie wissen, was sie tun: Erste School of Film Agents (SOFA) erfolgreich beendet
The Magnificent Ten: Nikolaj Nikitin and Dieter Kosslick announce SOFA participants and lecturers
Die glorreichen Zehn: Nikolaj Nikitin und Dieter Kosslick verkünden SOFA-Teilnehmer und Dozenten