PRAGUE: Norwegian director Bard Breien (The Art of Negative Thinking) will begin the shooting The Down’s Detective, a Norwegian-Czech-Danish-German coproduction, on 29 August 2012 in the Czech Republic. The film about a private detective with Down’s syndrome is set in Oslo.

PRAGUE: The Czech State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinema has selected 63 films to receive production and development grants in 2012. They include a number of high profile films which received a token 1 CZK as a promise of more funding when monies become available. Support went primarily to feature fiction films, as well as documentaries, short films and animated films.