Yona Rozenkier starting his residency in Athens!
Our network of film industry hosts enables us to prepare a residency literally anywhere in the world. That’s why we are called the Pop Up Film Residency! Thanks to our amazing hosts - producers Konstantinos Kontovrakis and Yorgos Karnavas, co-founders of Heretic and...
A year in the life of the Pop Up Film Residency
It all started in 2018 when the first Pop Up Film Residency took place in Bratislava, Slovakia, as a pilot edition. Our ‘guinea pig’ resident, Greek director Jacqueline Lentzou, was developing her first feature Selene66 Questions, receiving advice from generous...
Kaleena Kiff, the first producer to benefit from the Pop Up Film Residency!
The Pop Up Film Residency will have the pleasure to welcome the fresh EAVE Producer's Workshop graduate Kaleena Kiff from Curiosity Pictures, as the first producer to benefit from a three-week long residency in Bratislava! Kaleena will come to Slovakia at the...
Carlos Lechuga gains a Pop Up Award at BrLab
Dear BrLab, thank you for letting us discover so many beautiful projects! We are delighted to welcome Cuban-Columbian "Vicenta B." on the Pop Up board. This will be the 3rd feature film by director Carlos Lechuga. Vicenta B. is a Cuban-Colombian project, the 3rd...
Anita Doron receives a Pop Up Award at Warsaw Kids Film Forum
Amazing news coming from Warsaw Kids Film Forum. The Pop Up Film Residency Award goes to the project Napoleon, written by Anita Doron and to be directed by Adam Elliot! We are thrilled to welcome in Bratislava Anita Doron, a Hungarian-Canadian film director and...
Full Circle Lab Upper Rhine on Pop Up board!
One more Pop Up Film Residency opportunity in 2020! The Pop Up Film Residency decided to partner with Full Circle Lab Upper Rhine, a newly created European development program targeting feature film projects connected to the Upper Rhine region (France, Germany, and...
Four projects selected for the first Slovak Pop Up
photo: a reference picture for The Nightsiren A bunch of wonderful and diverse projects have been submitted to our new initiative designed for Slovak participants. Let us introduce you four Slovak projects picked for the first edition of Slovak Pop Up! The Nightsiren...
Marija Kavtaradże has received the Wild Card!
Breaking News: the ’Wild Card’ residency program This summer we decided to exceptionally offer a residency to a talent, who recently completed a film that strongly caught our attention. The ‘Wild Card’ program enables a filmmaker we believe in to start writing her/his...
CALL FOR SLOVAK PROJECTS – SLOVAK POP UP
Thanks to a financial support of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund & the Bratislava Region, the Pop Up Film Residency comes up with a new initiative designed for Slovak filmmakers. ABOUT SLOVAK POP UP The Slovak Pop Up is organized within a framework of the Pop Up Film...
Sona Balazova appointed Pop Up Program Manager
The Pop Up Film Residency is super excited to enlarge its team with Sona Balazova as new program manager! Sona is a writer, short film lover and enthusiastic project manager. She studied scriptwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and spent several...