www.babylon-film.eu

Europe is a continent of ethnic and cultural pluralism, but filmmakers of Europe's varied minorities rarely have the chance to communicate across national boundaries.

BABYLON is a new audiovisual programme designed to fill this gap, a European space in which minority filmmakers can speak to each other and to the widest international audience, providing access and inclusion.

Through a discovery of shared experience BABYLON celebrates Europe's cultural diversity, a motor for European integration, an affirmation of solidarity between filmmakers across the Continent.

Project development, network building, co-production and distribution opportunities feature in a rolling programme which was launched at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2006, and continued with the first project development programme, an intensive 3-day workshop coinciding with the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2007.

Now the initiator of BABYLON, Gareth Jones from London, and Sülbiye Günar, filmmaker and participant of the first workshop in Rotterdam, are in Vienna to inform about the opportunitys given by this project.

Presented by the Vienna Film Fund.