PRODUCTION: Posthumous Post-production for Nemec’s Final Film

PRAGUE: Acclaimed Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Němec, the writer and director of the upcoming film The Wolf from the Royal Vineyard Street, died in March this year shortly before…
05-05-2016

PRODUCTION: Jan Hrebejk preps Three-part Garden Store

PRAGUE: Jan Hřebejk, one of the most successful and active contemporary Czech filmmakers, has completed work on his Slovak/Czech coproduction The Teacher / Učitelka and is preparing a trilogy under…
04-05-2016

FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Tutors Announced

Seven tutors have been announced for the first Ex Oriente 2016 workshop session.
29-04-2016

Czech TV Preps Strong Line-up of Local Productions

PRAGUE: Czech Television is currently preparing a total of 406 projects greenlit last year. They include eight new drama series, 200 documentary films and programmes, 28 children’s programmes and 86…
28-04-2016

Czech Law to Pump More Money into Czech Film

PRAGUE: The State Cinematography Fund will regularly receive money from the state budget. The sum of approximately 180 to 200 m CZK will be granted to the Fund on annual…
22-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen 2016: Family Film Wins Finale Plzen

PLZEN: Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film won the Golden Kingfisher main prize at the 29th Finale Plzen film festival’s closing ceremony on 21 April 2016.
22-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: Interview with Matthieu Darras of the TorinoFilmLab

PLZEN: Matthieu Darras of TorinoFilmLab was in Plzen to participate in the Finale Plzen’s industry section. FNE asked Darras about the position of CEE filmmakers at the TorinoFilmLab.
22-04-2016

CME Refinances Ahead of Quarterly Announcement

PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises has completed a refinancing transaction to extend a credit facility agreement and a term loan, with the intention of decreasing the company’s financial leverage.
22-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: The Little Man

PLZEN: Radek Beran’s animated film The Little Man / Malý Pán, a Czech/Slovak coproduction, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
22-04-2016

FNE IDF DocBloc: Docu Talents from the East Call for Entries

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival announces that submissions to the Docu Talents from the East 2016, a presentation of the finest Central and Eastern European creative documentary projects in the…
22-04-2016

Expansion and Transition for MIDPOINT

PLZEN: The MIDPOINT script development programme is expanding and rebranding during its sixth year in operation. The addition of a TV series development programme saw a tripling of applications in…
21-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: David

PLZEN: David, the debut feature of Jan Těšitel, which had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary IFF, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
21-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: Czechs Present a Reduced Pitching Forum at Plzen

PLZEN: Five Czech projects and three foreign projects were presented in a revamped version of the annual pitching forum at the Finale Plzen festival running through 21 April 2016.
20-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: Gangster Ka: African

PLZEN: Gangster Ka: African, the second film of the two-part Gangster Ka project by Jan Pachl, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
20-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: The Greedy Tiffany

PLZEN: Andy Fehu‘s horror The Greedy Tiffany, which had its world premiere in 2015 at the Karlovy Vary IFF, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
20-04-2016

PRODUCTION: Third Season of The Therapy Series Started Shooting

PRAGUE: HBO Europe started shooting the third and last season of The Therapy, the successful TV series based on the Israeli format BeTipul. Shooting will wrap in June 2016.
19-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: Chasing 50

PLZEN: Chasing 50 / Padesátka, a comedy made by the popular Czech actor/director Vojtěch Kotek, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
19-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen 2016: Family Film

PLZEN: The Czech/German/French/Slovenian/Slovak coproduction Family Film / Rodinný Film by Prague-based Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
19-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: The Snake Brothers

PLZEN: Jan Prušinovský’s The Snake Brothers, winner of six Czech Lions in 2016, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
18-04-2016

FNE at Finale Plzen: Lost in Munich

PLZEN: Lost in Munich by Petr Zelenka, the winner of Czech Critics’ Awards in 2016, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
15-04-2016