FNE TV: Berlinale Delegate for Eastern Europe and CEE film Expert: Nikolai Nikitin
Region 18-03-2014FNE spoke to Nikolai Nikitin about how more films from CEE can cross borders and find a larger audience
SOFIA: Film producer Georgy Cholakov has been named Executive Director of the Bulgarian National Film Center, replacing documentary film director and academic Marin Martschewski who has been in the post since the end of 2012.
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FNE spoke to Nana Janelidze about her first year as director of the Georgian National Film Centre and what she sees as the priority directions for the development of the film industry in Georgia.
The 54 Krakow Film Festival has opened online voting through 10 April 2014 for its new movie trailer competition.
The Institute of Documentary Film’s most important activity and the largest documentary industry event in the region, the East Doc Platform, drew over 300 film professionals to Prague to network, pitch, consult and offer upcoming documentary projects to international decision makers.
Febiofest 2014 will support Ukraine. It will present the world premiere of a Maidan film!
Festivals 12-03-2014IFF Prague – Febiofest has expanded the program of the opening ceremony to support Ukrainian democracy during current turbulent events. The special screening of The Voice of the Young Ukraine will be free and available to the general public. The Ukrainian filmmakers, led by the respected Michail Ilyenko, will personally introduce it. Febiofest, together with 5 other Central and Eastern European festivals, are also initiating support for colleagues from the festivals in Kiev and Odessa.
FNE spoke to Cypriot director Yannis Economides about being a filmmaker in one of the EU’s smallest countries and his new film Stratos that was in competition in Berlinale 2014
PRAGUE: Five training sessions are scheduled for the 2014 edition of the 3D animation workshop Anomalia taking place 14 July through 19 September 2014.
SOFIA: Eight fiction and four documentary works-in-progress will be presented at the Sofia Meetings, running 13-16 March 2014.
