European Genre Forum

The European Genre Forum (EGF) is a collaboration between the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn and Fantastic Zagreb. Established in 2014, the objective of the European Genre Forum is to provide comprehensive cross-sector and film life cycle training for professionals working in European genre and fantastic film – a rapidly growing pan-European industry that is still distinctively different from the general film industry.

Its unique requirements for creative and financial development, production characteristics and distribution and monetizing networks have created a dedicated infrastructure of markets, festivals and training. The EGF has a fruitful collaboration with the BIF Market (part of the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival), and projects from previous editions enjoy successful festival runs both in Europe and the US.

The EGF Call for Submissions is opened every February.

EUROPEAN GENRE FORUM 2024

For its 10th edition, EGF will run three Talent Labs from July to November 2024: a Directing Lab in July (during Fantastic Zagreb, Croatia), a Producing Lab in October/November (during Imagine in Amsterdam), and a Sales & Packaging Lab in November (during Black Nights in Tallinn, Estonia).

The projects of 2024

Eight projects from eight different countries have been selected. This is the selection.

• Elle – Maya Korn (producer), Adva Reichman (director) – Germany
• Godling – Ashley Horner (director) – UK
• Monstro – Laura Doval (producer) – Spain
• Inheritance – Stanislav Bytiutskyi (director, writer), Inna Lastochkina (producer) – Ukraine, Ireland
• Neighbour – Oskar Lehemaa (director, writer), Evelin Penttilä (producer) – Estonia
• The Dark Architect – Ilkka Matila (producer), Risto Tuominen (director, writer) – Finland, Estonia
• The Kids Are Feral – Ben Thompson (director), Matthias Pachner (producr) – UK
• Vrykolax – Achilleas Gatsopoulos (director, co-writer), Geoff Dupuy Holder (writer) – Greece

Programme during Imagine

On Day 1 of their Imagine programme, the European Genre Forum participants will be visiting Virtual Production company ReadySet Studios. Financier Patrick Fischer will be telling them about producing and financing models. Day 2 is focused on AI, with a talk by Charlotte Paoli about legal matters as well as an AI storyboarding demo. We will close off Day 2 with a session with Sales Agent Ramona Sehr and the Fantastic Mixer, which offers participants the opportunity to meet other festival guests and professionals.

Details of each project can be found on the EGF website: europeangenreforum.com.