MUNICH: Beta Cinema will handle world sales for Scarred Hearts directed by Radu Jude. The film is in production.
PRAGUE: Andrea Sedláčková’s third feature film Fair Play screens in the main competition of the Cottbus Film Festival which runs through 8 November 2015.
The following grants have been announced by the Georgian National Film Fund on 30 October 2015.
JIHLAVA: Slovenian producer Danijel Hocevar of Vertigo and debuting documentary feature director Marija Zidar pitched their doc project Avenge during the Balkan Documentary Center panel during the 19th Jihlava IDFF.
LONDON: Hervé Payan, currently CEO of HBO Nordic, will become CEO of HBO Europe as of 1 January 2016, replacing current CEO Linda Jensen who announced her departure at the end of 2015. Along with the appointment, HBO is consolidating HBO Nordic, HBO Netherlands and HBO Europe under one umbrella organization.
FNE at Jihlava IDFF: Under the Sun Wins CEE Competition, No Prize in Czech Competition
Czech Republic 02-11-2015JIHLAVA: Vitaly Mansky’s documentary about life in South Korea seen through the life of a Korean family and their young daughter, Under the Sun, won the best film in the Between the Seas competition of films from Central and Eastern Europe at the 19th Jihlava IDFF’s closing ceremony on 31 October 2015.
JIHLAVA: The decision by the jury of the Czech national documentary competition Czech Joy at the 19th Jihlava IDFF which concluded on 1 November 2015 echoed hints of a problem in Czech documentary production.
VIENNA: Austria is considering a bilateral coproduction agreement with Cyprus.
Thirteen debut or second films competing for the Golden Pram ▪ Competition includes films from all over the world, from Scandinavia to Oceania ▪ Czech Republic and Iceland appear with black humour dramas about families in crises, and Latin America is represented by powerful Venice Film Festival winners From Afar and Neon Bull ▪ Checkers celebrate their 10th birthday ▪ Industry program focuses on short films and inter-festival collaboration
JIHLAVA: Slovak documentary director and producer Peter Kerekes is in development and production with a slate of three documentaries, all of which will be international coproductions, on the heels of the world premiere of Jan Gogola’s Excursions (Peter Kerekes) in the Czech Joy competition at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival on 28 October 2015.
