BRUXELLES: European Commission is launching a 1 m EUR hunt to find out how crowdsourcing or other innovative solutions can reduce the costs of obtaining subtitles and increase the exposure of European films in video on demand services available in the EU. The deadline is 25 September 2015 for projects to run in 2016.
CETATE: The 6th Divan Film Festival wrapped on 30 August 2015 after a 9 days full of movies, conferences and food. The festival focusing on the tasting of Balkan cinema and food was centered this year on the theme of Roads and Crossroads.
ZAGREB: Croatian Society of Film Workers selected The High Sun/Zvizdan by Dalibor Matanić to represent Croatia in the Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards.
WARSAW: A Polish court due to rule on a US request to extradite filmmaker Roman Polański will sit on 22 September 2015.
BUCHAREST: Costa Fam wrapped shooting for Brutus, the second part of his war trilogy Witnesses, with Alien Film providing services. The 90-minute trilogy will be released in 2016.
The ninth edition of DOKU.ARTS entitled Architectures in Motion will take place in the Zeughauskino of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin from 9 to 27 September 2015.
VALLETTA: An American blockbuster starring Dustin Hoffman could be shot in Malta later this year. Malta Film Commission has neither confirmed nor denied the information, but announces instead the shooting of Immediate Boarding, a French comedy by Philippe de Chauveron, for September 2015.
WARSAW: Submissions deadline for works-in-progress and completed films from Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine for the 11th CentEast Market is 4 September 2015.
BUCHAREST: The Duty / Datoria by Laurenţiu Gabriel Rusescu won the first edition of the script contest for original series, The First Episode, launched by HBO Romania on 17 February 2015.
ISTANBUL: Azize Tan, who has been the director of the Istanbul Film Festival for the last nine years, will be replaced by her assistant Kerem Ayan.
