Calling on the experienced women filmmakers!! With the support of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund, Pop Up Film Residency launches a very special residency only for you!! We designed this special POP UP FILM RESIDENCY to support diversity and fair chances in the...

Pop Up Film Residency supports diversity and fair chances in the film industry. Looking at the landscapes of the film industry, we could not overlook the scarcity of support for filmmakers that are preparing their third or later film. This is more urgent when we speak...

The Vilnius Pop Up Film Residency hosted by Lithuanian film producer, founder of the production company M-Film Marija Razgutė welcomes the first resident in August 2021. Marija receives the Kazakh filmmaker, director and producer Zhannat Alshanova developing her...

Out of six projects presented at the 3rd Focus COPRO' of the Cannes Short Film Corner, only one could have been selected for a 3-week Pop Up Film Residency in the Faroe Islands with the wonderful Jón Hammer as the host. The decision wasn't easy at all. Yet, we are...

A new residency program is on! MUNICH FILM UP! was launched on Monday, 12 July 2021, at the Marché du Film Short Film Corner by its co-directors Elena Diesbach, head of international office at the University of Film and Television (HFF Munich), and the director of Pop...

Pop Up Film Residency starts the summer holidays of 2021 with a new partner, the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB)'s  NEXT WAVE. This not only means a new residency but also new aspects of filmmaking to dive into. The programme’s goal is to train...

We welcome new members of the Pop Up Hosts network. This time, we go south, to Paraguay. Please, meet Paraguayan film director Marcelo Martinessi and producer and film director Sebastian Peña Escobar. Their first collaboration, Las Herederas (2018) directed by M....

Aiming to encourage artistic collaborations in the Visegrad region (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), Pop Up Film Residency breaks its rule of one residency at a time. A special program Pop Up Film Residency Visegrad will bring together three feature...

Since 2012, the Eurimages Fund directly addresses the issue of gender equality & of under-representation of women in cinema and in particular to supporting female-driven projects. One of the implementation tools is the Gender Equality Sponsorship aiming to...

In April, we resume our activities and welcome young Portuguese filmmaker Duarte Coimbra to Bratislava. That also means Pop Up Film Residency will accommodate one Slovak "buddy" project. We are happy to announce that the 1st Slovak Pop Up participant of 2021 is Gregor...