Party and Event Alert

BRATISLAVA: Slovak director/producer Katarina Kerekesova is working on The Websters, a 13-part animated TV series about a family of spiders for children and parents.

ZAGREB: The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the open call for the My First Script workshop taking place during the Festival which takes place 14-22 November 2015.  

Wednesday 13 May

SOFIA: Award-winning Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov will go into production with his second film in July 2015, I Want to Be Like You, a Danish/UK/Belgian/Bulgarian coproduction which features an international cast that includes Klaus Maria Brandauer.

TREBON: Spanish director Sam Conflictivos won the Anifilm Grand Jury Prize in the competition of animated films for adults for his claymation film Possessed and the special recognition went to Signe Baumane for Latvian/US film Rocks in My Pockets at the closing ceremony on 9 May 2015.

TREBON: Speaking at a panel consisting of TV broadcaster from across the CEE region, representatives from the public broadcasting channels in Slovakia and Slovenia said that recent new sources of funding for animation have resulted in the return of domestic content to their screens.

PLZEN: Czech and Slovak films shared the documentary prizes handed out in Plzen.

TREBON, Czech Republic: Central Europe’s animation pitching forum, the Visegrad Animation Forum (VAF), will send the winners of its TV series pitches to Cartoon Forum in September.