Filmby Århus
Filmby Århus (FA) is running a corporate centre for AV businesses (mission to develop the av sector in the West Danish Region), also serving as secretariat for The West Danish film Fund. FA´s interest in First Motion is to gather new knowledge on cross media production and distribution and make this available and operational for a larger circle of entrepreneurs and SMEs in an agency concept, which can serve as a model for other regional growth incentive schemes around Europe. The new knowledge and best practices shall be related to the needs and mechanisms relevant for economical and cultural development in regions. FA is co-managing partner for WP4 and WP5.

 

The Alexandra Institute (AI) is an “Approved Technological Service Institute” building bridges between research, business community, public institutions and citizens. AI develops IT based products & services that create social value and contribute to financial growth by means of research-based innovation. In First Motion AI contributes with different competencies such as business understanding that focuses on knowledge about innovation management, commercial modelling and effect measurement, which can root down technological innovation and provide the optimal framework for a successful innovation process. Creative and artistic processes that use and examine the potential that lies in digital art and digital experiences when it comes to qualitative content and business opportunities.

 

 

 The Tallinn University Baltic Film and Media School (BFM) is the only university in Northern Europe teaching programs in television, cinema, media, and communication in English. BFM offers an international education with a variety of curricular options leading to careers or graduate studies in film and television production, broadcast journalism, new media, advertising and public relations. In First Motion the BFM will be managing partner for WP 6, using the input from the partners and the other WPs to develop a new Master curriculum for new av cross-media. First Motion provides the BFM with valuable input necessary to develop a meaningful, practical and usable curriculum that fits its target group, students wanting to work in the BSR av-SMEs. In return the BFM provides its expertise in matters of transnational education and training.

 

 The Estonian Film Foundation (EFF) is the main financier of the national film production. It has the necessary knowledge for launching new ideas and serving as link between Estonian filmmakers, distributors and other players in the audiovisual field. It will have the role of the locally responsible coordinator of the project, linking to the other players, disseminating information about the project and assuring its visibility in Estonia. The benefit for EFF is to test in an innovative environment new ways of financing, production and distribution of audiovisual products, making at the same time audiovisual content - both cultural heritage content as well as present new cross-media av-content - of the region available for a large audience interested in the BSR.

 

 

 

 The Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein ( FFHSH) is a service provider, facilitator and financer for the regional av-industry. The FFHSH will manage and lead with the Kommune Kristiansand Filmby Aarhus the activities in WP 4, where its core competencies are. As Lead Beneficiary it will also be responsible for the WPs 1 & 2. First Motion provides the FFHSH with an opportunity to gain knowledge in important future markets for its clients and in developing appropriate new policies and structures also though the partner’s results.

 

 

 

 The National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC) was established as a state institution under the Ministry of Culture. Its main objectives are: to administer the Government’s financial support to Latvian films, to prepare legal acts and Governmental documents securing the functioning of filmmaking in Latvia, to preserve the national AV-heritage, to promote Latvian films abroad, to co-operate with international and national organisations, to issue video distribution licences in Latvia and to form a data-base of Latvian films and filmmakers.

 

 

 

 The University of Agder is an ECTS and DS label institute. It is its strategic ambition of contributing significantly to the development of the region, with study programmes and research that is relevant to business and commercial development. In committed cooperation with the region, Agder University College will further develop commercially relevant focus areas. Within this project UiA will bring in its competence from its Media and economic faculties.

 

 

 

 HTA is a business entity connecting science and market in innovative areas like AV. HTA aims at helping the Media Cluster that started in Lodz in 2007. It is responsible for WP5 together with Filmby Aarhus as well as engaged in WP6, transferring experiences to develop curricula for SME/start-ups. It is also strongly engaged in Wp4 and participates in WP3. The main interest of HTA in this project is to gather new knowledge & experience on media cluster management and business development services based on best practices from leading regions, to make this available and operational for creative clusters, serving as a model for regional growth incentive schemes around the EU.

 

 As the local authority Lodz City Council is the responsible promoter for the economic and cultural development of Lodz. Special emphasis is put on the creative sector. Following its regional development strategy LCC focuses locally on the media industry and does so by cooperation with HTA, Lodz Media Cluster and the Lodz Film School. As the av-markets are glocal (global AND local) a regional development for the AV-industry approach must be transnational. First Motion provides LCC with this approach and enables it to provide improvements of impact. LCC will be responsible for IPR research and ICT tool development tailored for European needs, facilitating film productions

 

 

 

 BHbg is an initiative based in Helsingborg that nurtures exceptional emerging talent within the moving image industry in Skåne. A pioneering program that aims to develop new storytelling techniques in close cooperation with the various branches, industry professionals and rising trends. Its task is to support, develop and strengthen a chosen talent’s abilities with their self-initiated projects. BHbg is not a continuing education program. It is an initiative to empower budding talent. FM enables BHbg to broaden its work into an international pan-Baltic structure, providing the project with already gathered experiences and benfiting through the transnationality of the projects activities