P.O.B 14581
Tel Aviv 61143
Israel
- Media
• To foster dialogue between Israeli filmmakers and foreign counterparts
• To offer international audiences new and interesting insight into the Israeli actuality and social complexities
• To promote and nurture young talented Israeli Arab and Jewish filmmakers
• To raise funds for Israeli-foreign co-productions
CoPro’s Agenda includes the following principles:
Promoting multiple services –providing resources, information and avenues of communication for independent filmmakers, industry professionals and film enthusiasts, Assuming that independently made films are important as a powerful means of expression for all walks of our society.
Supporting independent creative filmmaking
when the rip between rich and poor is ever growing, privatization is the order of the day, media organizations are struggling to survive and public broadcasting is collapsing. . CoPro feels responsible and is committed to supporting and maintaining quality documentary filmmaking in Israel.
Equal opportunities – CoPro provides independent filmmakers with various levels of experience and expertise, assisting them in expressing their own exclusive viewpoints, and facilitating interaction between the creative and the business communities.
Professional training – Today’s media demand expert, competent and skilled personnel, well versed in the media market rules. It requires social competence, cultural tolerance and flexibility, and humanitarian commitment – all being crucial in this highly sensitive intercultural industry. CoPro Documentary Marketing Foundation offers and advances such suitable training.
The Israel International Co-Productions Market
For the 14th time in a row, in May 2012, the Co-Productions Market will take place in Tel Aviv and will be attended by 40 foreign representatives from of the most important TV networks around the world.
The event combines different activities, which take place concurrently:
Pitching Sessions - The chief event of the Co-Productions Market is a two-day pitching Forum. During these days, 24 Israeli filmmakers will be given the opportunity to present their scripts and films-in-progress to the visiting television and Film Foundations executives. The pitching sessions are moderated by Pat Ferns, a leading producer in Canada.
As part of the activities of 2012 French Delegation, 6 French producers will also pitch their projects to an Israeli panel of media representatives and to an audience of Israeli filmmakers.
One-on-One Meetings- The pitching is followed by one-on-one meetings. After the presentation, television executives shall meet with the filmmakers whose scripts interested them the most.
Close Encounters - launched in 2007, aims to foster collaboration with producers from countries Israel has relations and film treaties with.
The guests receive a catalogue of the Israeli documentaries on-offer for co-production, already partially funded locally. CoPro facilitates private meetings of interested parties within the Co Production market.
DocuShuk – The Israeli Documentaries Market- a stimulating platform for the marketing of Israeli documentaries in which representatives of local and foreign networks enjoy as many as 200 documentaries, screened in private viewing-booths. The English – French catalogue is categorized by themes and includes some of the most prominent Israeli filmmakers.
CoPro Retrospetive- every year CoPro holds a tribute to one foreign TV network.
Master classes during the market
CoPro also publishes a biannual book- CoPro Guide - written and edited by Yoram Schaffer. The guide contains comprehensive information on international film foundations and festivals across the world, and various international treaties and accords.