TALLINN: The Nordic Video Library, a unique online and offline platform presenting Nordic films for educational purposes, was launched in Estonia on 25 March at Tallinn’s Baltic Film and Media School as part of the school's anniversary week.

FNE TV spoke to Lucie Gricci about the TIDE experiment, Day for Date releases and why the project is important for the future distribution of European film at the at Sofia International Film Festival 2013.

PRAGUE: The British debut drama Broken directed by Rufus Norris won the Grand Prix of the 20th Febiofest, which concluded on 22 March 2013.

FNE spoke to Timo Vuorensola director of Iron Sky about crowd-funding and how to do it at the at Sofia Meetings 2013. Click HERE to see the interview on FNE TV.

Youths in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Poland and Malta will participate in choosing the winner of the second edition of the EFA Young Audience Award on Young Audience Film Day, 5 May 2013.

Films from Slovakia, Georgia, and Austria are among 13 recipients of the March 2013 Eurimages meeting, which distributed 3.58 m EUR.

The Polish Film Institute (PISF) has awarded grants to 42 productions, including major production grants to 11 feature films.

FNE spoke to Claude-Eric Poiroux about the most important issues facing exhibitors today including digitalization and day for date releases. Claude-Eric declared the FNE series of publications of the latest results of day for date releases in the smaller countries of the EU to be very very important for the European film industry.

Krakow, 15th March 2013 – Dutch film director and animator Paul Driessen, nominated in 2000 for the Oscar for his short 3 Misses, will receive the Dragon of Dragons Award at the 53rd Krakow Film Festival (26May - 2 June 2013). 

FNE TV spoke to Commissioner Busuttil about how being a small country can be an advantage for film production and new developments in Malta’s tax incentives and local Maltese productions.