PRAGUE: Twelve films are competing in the East of the West competition at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF.
Petr Horky won the 2018 Pavel Kotecky Award.
FNE at Zlin IFF: International Coproduction Winter Flies Wraps Post-production
Czech Republic 31-05-2018ZLIN: Winter Flies, a new film from Olmo Omerzu, coproduced by the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, France and Poland, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
FNE AT ZLIN IFF: Czech State Cinematography Fund Aims to Increase Youth Film Audiences
Czech Republic 31-05-2018ZLIN: Building teen attendance in cinemas is one of the goals of the New Cinema 2018-2019 project, designed to educate cinema operators on improving youth film audience numbers, presented at a special seminar during 58th Zlin IFF, running through 3 June 2018.
Czech Feature Film Grants, May 2018
CINEDAYS Festival of European Film was recently recognized as “Competitive film festival specialized in European first and second feature films” by the General Assembly of FIAPF held in February 2018.
FNE at Zlin IFF: Michal Hogenauer in Postproduction with Certain Kind of Silence
Czech Republic 30-05-2018ZLIN: Certain Kind of Silence, a coproduction between the Czech Republic, Latvia and The Netherlands, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
FNE at Zlin IFF: Slovak Music Film BACKSTAGE Set to Premiere in Czech Republic
Czech Republic 30-05-2018ZLIN: BACKSTAGE, a music film coproducion between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, directed by Andrea Sedláčková, will open in Czech cinemas on 7 June 2018 distributed by Bontonfilm. The film is screening in the Main Competition of the 58th Zlin IFF.
PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF announced the 12 films that will screen in the main competition. Ten of the films will be world premieres. The festival will take place 29 June – 7 July 2018.
ZLIN: The celebratory zero clapperboard at 58th Zlin IFF launched the production of Crime Story 5.C, an upcoming Czech/Slovak coproduction for children directed by Juraj Nvota.
