INTERREG SOUTH BALTIC PROGRAMME

SB MNM - SOUTH BALTIC NEW CINEMA NETWORK

Project under the Cross Border Cooperation Programme INTERREG V-A South Baltic 2014-2020,

Priority V:"Increasing the efficiency of cooperation of local actors in the South Baltic to the" blue "and" green "growth"

Submitted: December 16, 2016

Background

Participating organisations are aware of the fact that there are many cross-border initiatives in the south Baltic area. Some of the participating are cooperating to each other but this is limited, at best, short visits which are not leading to local development or a sense of a common South Baltic identity. It is safe to say that few local actors are participating in cross-border projects and initiatives in order to develop the qualities of services provided. The local actors such as local cinemas, institutions, businesses and local service providers in participating regions have found it difficult to engage in projects that contain transnational cooperation. Project addresses low participation of local actors in the South Baltic Programme and their need for capacity building. By bringing together new-comer local actors, in cooperation by creating specific cluster focusing centres, which operate non-commercial cinemas, and in particular cinemas that are not multiplexes cinema institutions. The project aims at showing the benefits of soft cross-border cooperation in regard of solving common problems in the field of promoting cultural cooperation, cultural and natural heritage and a common identification of the Baltic Sea. The project will be managed by a joint project team comprising staff of all partners. The team will cooperate with specialists and experts responsible for conducting workshops to prepare all partner organizations for carried out the project activities. It will prepare the participants to allocate resources to increase their presence in the cross-border cooperation and implement thematic courses, workshops developing the participants’ international expertise, innovation capacity and established networks. The target group: organisations and institutions interested in joint initiatives. As part of the project we plan to organize different activities with the ultimate goal to strengthen collaboration, exchange experiences and transfer good practices.

Main Partners:

  1. POLAND: CSE Światowid, Elblag (Lead Partner)
  2. POLAND: Association of polish communes Euroregion Baltic
  3. Ducal Castle & Association OFFicyna, Szczecin
  4. SWEDEN: Reactor Sydost, Vaxjo
  5. LITHUANIA: Cinema "Minija" Garzdai
  6. GERMANY: Institute for New Media, Rostock

Strategical Aims:

- Preparing the participants to allocate resources to increase its engagement in cross-border networks. In short, exchange experiences about how to structure and integrate international cooperation in local policy development and/or organisational development.

- Discuss heritage, common identity and culture with participants in order to raise awareness and interest for our common identity. With a greater feeling of common identity and knowledge of common challenges, project development to meet these challenges should be more interesting.

- Discuss how the project’s participants and joint cinema network can influence decisions and/or policies (regional-, national- and EU-level) that are affecting the local actors and their development.

Project activities:

  • Conferences- Planned are 5 conference in each of the partner cities (on average every 5 months). At conferences always will be present all the project partners and invited by the organizer of local organizations / entities (eg. From Szczecin and the West Pomeranian Province) working in the field of film and new media. The conference will present initiatives specific to the region (eg. ZFF "Pomerania Film"), together with a discussion of the scope and specifics of their activities. There will also be "cross-linking", ie the inclusion of local partners for the Baltic Network New Media. Conferences will be open. In addition, each will also be a closed meeting of a working (evaluation of existing activities and the implementation of the following) exclusively for the project partners.
  • Internet platform - Common to all project partners and institutions entering the Baltic Network New Media. In addition to the database of actors and artists from the area of ​​new media with Polish, Sweden, Lithuania and Germany on the platform will also be made a summary of current activities in the form of film, video, relationships, images, downloadable materials and links to important projects in the field of new media (N.M.)
  • Film Clubs (Poland, Lithuania) - Significant for the program is to strengthen the capacity of networking and cooperation between local actors. For this purpose, it is essential that each partner had a similar potential is not so much material as "creative". The ideal dimensions of the daily long-term cooperation is the network of Baltic network of film clubs. Therefore, it is planned to assume professional film clubs with partners who have such active projects do not yet have (Poland, Lithuania). Guide for "newbies" are very experienced in this matter partners from Sweden and Germany, who will help build projects from scratch in local conditions. The newly established clubs are members of the Baltic networks.
  • Workshops - International workshop in the area N.M. referring to the "common Baltic identity" in which professionals and amateurs will create the so-called "Seaside Stories" (Stories from the Sea / Baltic story). Lecturers and participants will come from Polish, Sweden, Lithuania and Germany. The workshops will each have an original character, that each partner will choose its own "local" purpose, methodology of activities, tools. May be the result of "Baltic Stories" - films publicly available on the Internet platform.
  • Job shadowing - an important part of the program is to strengthen the capacity of networking and collaboration between local entities and the so-called. Capacity building, or improving the skills and training development. One of the key tasks of the project is therefore the exchange of knowledge and experiences between the project partners. Job shadowing is a modern professional program like a practice or internship. Each of the partners in the project will be hosted in your organization employees (each 1 person) from all countries and for a period of 5-14 days will be his guide in the workplace to allow familiarization with all levels of work. In this way, the project partners will know characteristic for each country and region of the methodology of work, the conditions of cultural, historical and social.
  • Tour - The main goal of the program is to build a "common Baltic identity", which is why the project involves the implementation of activities in each of the partners of a workshop, this time open to the public. The meetings will be presented films makers about regional identity, national usage, but also the everyday challenges and problems of the inhabitants of the country. The meetings will be attended by the authors of films and curators who will confront their vision of a film with four different nationalities. The result will be both a working knowledge of everyday life neighbors (Baltic countries), on the other mutual confrontation of ideas about yourself, both good and bad.