November is really festival-busy-month and we are truly delighted that “the cold November rain” warmed up for Slovak films and prepared for them swish premieres!
The first awards at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event have been presented – the Works in Progress awards. We are also happy to announce the honorary award that Eye on Films has presented at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
STRASBOURG: European screenwriters and directors have called on the European Parliament to ensure the EU copyright reform proposals ensure that authors are fairly remunerated for their work and that there is better support for the circulation and promotion of European audiovisual works.
BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Audiovisual Fund has approved opening its call for animation projects in 2017 to include TV projects, especially series, for both majority and minority Slovak coproductions.
WARSAW: EFADs the European Film Agency Directors organisation has voiced its concerns over the EU’s Sat Cab Regulation, which would introduce a Country of Origin principle for broadcasters’ ancillary online services such as catch-up TV.
Screenwriters and directors call on European Parliament to put authors at heart of copyright reform
Press releases 23-11-2016A delegation of audiovisual authors and their collective management organisations (CMOs) from across Europe met Members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg to discuss copyright package ahead of the announcement of the winner of the European Parliament’s LUX Film Prize.
Country of Origin principle for catch-up TV endangers cultural diversity: Europe’s film agencies call for a change of approach
Press releases 23-11-2016The European Film Agency Director’s (EFADs) position paper on the so called “Sat Cab Regulation”, published today, outlines the EFADs’ concerns about the introduction of a Country of Origin principle for broadcasters’ ancillary online services such as catch-up TV. Whilst the EFADs share the European Commission’s ambitions to support the audiovisual sector’s adaptation to new digital technologies, the film agencies fear this Regulation would undermine the principle of territoriality. This could have a devastating impact on the sustainability of the audiovisual sector and cultural diversity in Europe.
Why the EFADs strongly opposes Article 2 in the Proposal for a Regulation on certain online transmissions of broadcasting organisations and retransmissions of television and radio programmes
WARSAW: Polish sound designer Radoslaw Ochnio will be honoured with the EFA award for Best Sound Designer for Jerzy Skolimowski’s 11 Minutes.
TALLINN: Two short Croatian coproductions took home awards at the 2016 edition of the Estonian film festival Animated Dreams, which concluded on 20 November.
