For the second time now, the Karlovy Vary IFF will be holding the Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers To Follow programme, which is organised in cooperation with the European Film Promotion. This year too, based on the nominations of EFP member organisations, the festival has selected ten students of film schools from ten European countries whose work hitherto shows great potential. During two days of the festival, the young filmmakers will personally present their films to the general and professional public, and will have the opportunity to meet leading experts from the film industry. For beginning talents, Future Frames opens the door to the world of professional filmmaking and allows them to make important contacts for the preparation of their future projects. “The opening year of Future Frames was one of the most successful and most internationally visible events of last year’s KVIFF,” says festival artistic director Karel Och. “Following a world premiere in Karlovy Vary, rising star of domestic cinema Ondřej Hudeček visited a number of festivals with his baccalaureate film Peacock, including Toronto and Sundance, where the film won the award for best director. Filmacademy Vienna student Patrick Vollrath also achieved great success, with his film Everything Will Be Okay boasting an Oscar nomination and a Student Academy Award.” The Karlovy Vary IFF is one festival that devotes special attention to emerging talents, and the successes of participants from last year’s Future Frames show that this new KVIFF programme is becoming a significant platform for filmmakers at the start of their careers whose names would be good to remember.
