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LAST REMINDER: Submit your project to Ex Oriente Film until MAY 4!

Do Not Forget To Submit Your Project to EX ORIENTE FILM 2016! Apply HERE. Deadline: Wednesday May 4th, 2016!
03-05-2016

The first exceptional participation in years for Czech films at the Cannes Film Festival

Prague, 3 May 2016 – For the first time in years Czech films are visibly represented in this year’s official programme and other important sections of the Cannes Film Festival (11 – 22 May 2016). Czech films and minority co-productions are part of the most important sections. Four Czech films…
03-05-2016

Slovenian Society of Cinematographers: IRIS awards 2016

Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenian Cinematheque, 26th April 2016 Slovenian Society of Cinematographers (ZFS) is committed to the progress and development of professional cinematography, it advocates respect of moral and ethical principles of the profession and stands for continuous development and quality of Slovenian cinema. For the first time Slovenian Society of…
28-04-2016

PUSTNIK Screenwriters Residency is looking for 7 European young and emerging writers/directors

TETA Association launches the second edition of PUSTNIK - the European Screenwriters Residency.
25-04-2016

Exclusive showcase of Lithuanian productions at the leading Swiss documentary film festival

Special focus will be given to Lithuania at the biggest Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel that will take place on April 15–23. The festival will present a retrospective of films by Audrius Stonys, hold a world premiere of the film I’m Not from Here by Giedrė Žickytė and…
18-04-2016

DOCU TALENTS FROM THE EAST 2016 - CALL OPEN

Deadline for applications is April 30, 2016
13-04-2016

TIES THAT BIND announces its selection for 2016

We proudly announce the selection for the eighth edition of TIES THAT BIND! Out of over 40 applications from Europe and Asia, 10 producers with feature films in development have been selected to participate together with 5 additional European professionals wanting to extend their knowledge and network towards Asia.
11-04-2016

Apply for EX ORIENTE FILM 2016 – deadline May 4, 2016

Dear Friends, Institute of Documentary Film is looking for creative documentary projects in development and early production for the new edition of the renowned international workshop EX ORIENTE FILM. Ex Oriente Film DEADLINE: May 4, 20016 Online application and guidelines available HERE. The Ex Oriente Film workshop focuses on the…
11-04-2016

Visegrad Film Forum takes it seriously

The 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) with a five-day programme full of master classes with renowned experts, runs from April 5 – 9 with the leading topic audience development and film literacy. Among the guests you find names such as Bartosz Konopka, one of the most awarded young Polish filmmakers;…
07-04-2016

Crossing Borders 2016: Final Call for Projects

Documentary Campus, EDN and BCPF - The Broadcasting Content Promotion Foundation - are calling filmmakers to submit their documentary projects (series, one-offs and cross-platform) for the 2016 edition of the Crossing Borders programme. The submission deadline is 15 April 2016.
06-04-2016

Visegrad Film Forum 2016

The 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) – international networking and educational platform for upcoming filmmakers – was held at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava between April 5-9, 2016. This year was attended by 406 accredited participants from 17 countries – mostly from Europe. We had also the participants…
05-04-2016

Visegrad Film Forum takes it seriously

The 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) with a five-day programme full of master classes with renowned experts, runs from April 5 – 9 with the leading topic audience development and film literacy.
04-04-2016

HISTORIC FIRST IN ROMANIAN ANIMATION: “Mercy Street” is the first 3D animation feature film, made with a 100% Romanian technique

After four years of big investments and hard work, Opal Production studio completed “Mercy Street” movie, the first 3D animationfeature made in Romania with astereoscopic animation technique, 100% autochthonous, developed by Ştefan andAlexandru (Ducu) Buzea, the film director and respectively the character designer and animator.
01-04-2016

Film? We take it seriously! Visegrad Film Forum starts in a less than a week!

The 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) is less than a week away. Five days full of master classes with renowned experts as one of the most awarded young Polish filmmaker Bartosz Konopka, a cult film director and producer from Iceland Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, whose second feature film Children of Nature…
31-03-2016

SUBMISSIONS FOR EMERGING PRODUCERS 2017 CLOSING SOON

Submissions close Thursday, March 31, 2016
22-03-2016

THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CINEMAS (UNIC) SETS OUT POSITION ON ‘THE SCREENING ROOM’ PROPOSAL

Brussels, 18 March 2016: the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the European trade body representing cinema associations and key operators from across 36 territories, has today set out its position regarding media reports around the proposed ‘Screening Room’ initiative.
20-03-2016

Collaboration between Polish Film Institute and EAVE yields new scholarships for Polish producers

Polish Film Institute and European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, EAVE, a professional training, project development and networking organization for audiovisual producers, launched the partnership that will offer a new scholarship for one Polish producer and project for the EAVE 2017 Producers Workshop.
18-03-2016

Sofia Innovation Lab 2016

Europa Cinemas Audience Development & Innovation Lab "Creating active and diverse relationships with our communities” Sofia – Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th March, 2016
17-03-2016

Eurimages supports 16 co-productions

Strasbourg, 15.03.2016 - At its 142nd meetingheld from 8 to 11 March 2016 in Tirana, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 13 fiction, and 3 documentary feature film projects for a total amount of 4 485 494Euros.
15-03-2016

EUROPA DISTRIBUTION WORKSHOP Sofia International Film Festival - Sofia Meetings March 17-20 2016

For the sixth year in a row, Europa Distribution is hosting a distribution workshop in the scope of the Sofia Meetings of the Sofia International Film Festival. About 20 independent distributors members of the network will participate to this workshop and the Sofia Meetings activities.
14-03-2016