German and Norwegian Productions Joins Slate of International TV Projects Shooting on Czech Locations

PRAGUE: Historical TV productions are energizing the Czech international film service industry, with two TV projects for Germany’s SAT 1 and Norwegian TV scheduled to production within the next month,…
23-09-2013

FESTIVALS: Jihlava Selects 19 Emerging Producers

PRAGUE: The second edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival’s Emerging Producers project has named 19 European participants. Central European participants come from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (with…
19-09-2013

CME Names New Bosses

PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises, the web of TV networks covering six nations in the region, has announced that Christoph Mainusch and Michael Del Nin will take immediately the reigns…
16-09-2013

Czech Documentarians Chronicle Moravian Emigre

NEW PHILADELPHIA: Filmmakers for Czech TV recounting the life of Moravian missionary David Zeisberger for Vistafilm are exploring Tuscarawas County, Pennsylvania currently, shooting in places connected with his life, including…
10-09-2013

Screenplay on Husák’s Wife Wins Main Award in International MIDPOINT Programme

Prague: MIDPOINT, an international educational project aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school this weekend with honors for best projects.
06-09-2013

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Riding the Freeway Blues

Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma…
06-09-2013

Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund

PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
06-09-2013

PRODUCTION: Korean TV Crews Wrap in Ostrava

PRAGUE: A 160 member film crew from South Korea's capital Soul has wrapped their 8-day shoot in Ostrava and Prague. The project, with working title International Market, is produced by…
03-09-2013

Czech Parliament Puts Delayed Incentives Back on Track

The Czech government has ended months of delay in implementing this year's round of cash back film production incentives, a systemic snag caused by the collapse of the administration of…
30-08-2013

Czech Lions Founder Examining Cosmic Questions Via Documentary

PRAGUE: Petr Vachler, founder of the Czech Lions awards, has begun shooting his second film – feature length documentary The Meaning and Mystery of Life (Tajemství a smysl života), in…
30-08-2013

FNE TV AVP Live ! : Helena Frankova, Director Czech Cinematography Fund

The Czech Republic recently approved a new law for cinematography. FNE spoke with Helena Frankova earlier this year as the Czechs prepared to begin the process of the implementation of…
23-08-2013

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Beetles and Presidents Offer Lessons

PRAGUE: Armed with no end of ironic analysis, director Hana Novakova takes on modern Czech politics with the help of the south Bohemian bark beetle and several offbeat personalities in…
23-08-2013

FNE TV: Michal Bregant, Director of the Czech National Film Archives

FNE asked PhDr Michal Bregant, the Director of the Czech National Film Archives about the recent re-organisation of the NFA and the new and more important role it will be…
20-08-2013

FNE-IDF DocBloc: An Eye-Witness to History

Czechoslovakia - The Destiny of a Canadian, by award-winning filmmaker Lukáš Přibyl, is slated for release in October, according to the Institute of Documentary Film.
16-08-2013

Prague Hosts Third 48 Hour Film Project

Fall will see indie film crews scrambling in the city streets as the Czech capital commences its third edition of the 48 Hour Film Project 4-6 October. The event, billed…
15-08-2013

History TV Series Bring Summer Business to Prague

The first of three multi-episode international dramas for broadcast has wrapped with the completion of location shoots on 1864, the Czech/Danish/German co-production shot at Barrandov through Sirena Film, with epic…
15-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Svěrák Music Fairy Tale Three Brothers Shooting

PRAGUE: Czech Oscar winner Jan Svěrák is in production on the music fairy tale Tři bratři (Three Brothers), based on the script by his father, Zdeněk, who has incorporated music…
09-08-2013

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Mark the Fall of the Wall with Rabbits at Prague's Světozor

PRAGUE: The disarming, award-winning Polish documentary Rabbit a la Berlin screens at Kino Světozor (www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/‎) in a celebration of the end of the Berlin Wall, which ironically gave the bunnies…
09-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Czech Village Tale Nowhere Shooting in Hills

Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape…
09-08-2013

EU Approval Unblocks Czech Film Grants Process

Czech producers, distributors, cinemas and festivals are rushing to apply for grants from the newest iteration of the state Cinematography Fund following a European Commission ruling Tuesday approving the system's…
07-08-2013