The following grants were announced at the second session in 2016, on 12 December 2016.
Jan Naszewski’s Polish sales outlet New Europe Film Sales announced that the popular programmer Marcin Łuczaj has joined the team of the Warsaw-based company as Acquisitons Executive and Head of Short Film Sales. He will represent New Europe at co-production markets and short film markets and coordinate the company’s acquisition efforts.
LOS ANGELES: German/Austrian/Romanian coproduction Toni Erdmann, directed by Maren Ade, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the Foreign Language Film category.
NICOSIA: Life Routes: Cyprus, a research project by five young people from Cyprus exploring spaces of everyday life, division and co-existence in their country, premiered in Nicosia on 12 December 2016.
FILMFÖRDERUNGSANSTALT (FFA) IS THE NEW PARTNER OF THE POLISH-GERMAN FILM FUND
Press releases 11-12-2016On 9 December 2016, representatives of the institutions participating in the Polish-German
Film Fund: Magdalena Sroka, head of the Polish Film Institute; Peter Dinges, head of
Filmförderungsanstalt; Kirsten Niehuus, head of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and Claas
Danielsen, head of Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, signed an agreement on cooperation
within the framework of the Polish-German Film Fund, which added the FFA Federal Film Fund
(Filmförderungsanstalt) as a new partner of this initiative. Magdalena Sroka, head of the Polish
Film Institute, announced that the Polish financial contribution to the Polish-German Film
Fund will be increased to 150,000 euros. With FFA as the new partner, the annual budget of
the Polish-German Film Fund will increase from 300,000 euros to 500,000 euros.
The latest round of grants for 2016 was announced by Film Center Serbia on 7 December 2016.
PRAGUE: Film Europe Media Company launched two more channels, Československo HD and Festival Channel HD in November 2016, in addition to Film Europe Channel HD. Both channels are broadcasting in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
PIATRA NEAMȚ: Cinema City opens in the town of Piatra Neamţ its third multiplex in 2016 and wraps the year with a total investment of 21 m USD / approx. 19,735,000 EUR. Cinema City is the biggest cinema operator in Romania.
FNE IDF DocBloc: A Funny Probe Into the Absurd World of Soviet Commercials
Czech Republic 09-12-2016Click HERE for an interview with Estonian filmmakers Kiur Aarma and Hardi Volmer about their documentary Gold Spinner, supported by the Institute of Documentary Film.
