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2018 ODESA IFF SCRIPTEAST SERIES PITCHING AWARD GOES TO “FAMILY ARCHIVES” FROM CROATIA. SPECIAL AWARD FOR MAŁGORZATA PIŁACIŃSKA FROM POLAND

The second edition of the Odesa IFF ScripTeast Series Pitching took place in Odesa on 17. - 20. July. It is a drama series competition organized by the Odesa International Film Festival Film Industry Office Team, powered by ScripTeast - a master training program for the best Eastern European scriptwriters,…
23-07-2018

ANIMARKT Pitching 2018 – submit a project of your stop motion short

Projects of animated shorts and TV special episodes made with the use of puppet technique can take part in the pitching organized for the second time during ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. The deadline for submissions is July 31st.
20-07-2018

Four Croatian films at Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico

The 21st Guanajuato International Film Festival will include the screenings of four Croatian films. Cyclists by Veljko Popović and ‘The Stranger’ In My Head by Petra Balekić will screen in competition, while Into the Blue by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović and The Lovetts by Igor Bezinović will screen out of competition.…
17-07-2018

Lithuanian Cinema and Documentary Thrive in First Half of 2018

Over the first six months of this year, national cinema in Lithuania has seen a significant rise in attendance, as evidenced by box office returns: ticket sales of Lithuanian films have almost reached 60% of last year’s total (€2.6 million, compared to €4.5 million in 2017), attracting 500,000 viewers (compared…
13-07-2018

MIDPOINT's success stories in Karlovy Vary

This year's MIDPOINT Feature Launch program had its final showcase during the Karlovy Vary IFF, helping to launch the career of 9 promising projects and their talented participants. Here are the highlights of the third module, Works in Development – Feature Launch.
12-07-2018

THIS SUMMER SWIMMING IN THE SEA OF DOCUMENTARIES – DIVE INTO FACTUM’S ONLINE VIDEO STORE!

One of the most important Croatian documentary film production companies has launched a new project: Factum Online, bringing the broad spectrum of Factum’s documentaries to your home – from the recent ones to the rarely seen!
12-07-2018

STORIES IN MOVEMENT

Dance Film Development Lab - 3 - 9 sept 2018, Bucharest
10-07-2018

Borys Lankosz, a renowned Polish filmmaker to tutor a screenwriting group at Slawomir Idziak's Film Spring Workshop

Borys Lankosz, a renowned Polish filmmaker is to tutor the screenwriting group at the annual Film Spring Workshop in Krakow, Poland, 17-26 October 2018.
10-07-2018

Participants selected for Talents Sarajevo 2018

The 12th annual Talents Sarajevo, to be held in parallel with the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival, will host 61 prospective actors, cinematographers, directors, editors, film critics, producers and screenwriters from South Eastern Europe and South Caucasus. Among them are four Croatian professionals: Hrvojka Begović (actress), Hani Domazet (director), Katarina Prpić…
09-07-2018

European authors call on MEPs to maintain strong support on authors' rights / copyright directive

In light of the recent vote in the European Parliament to postpone the vote on its position on the Copyright Directive, European authors call upon MEPs to maintain their strong support on authors’ rights.
05-07-2018

Warsaw Kids Film Forum 2018 selection announced

Warsaw Kids Film Forum is delighted to announce the full selection of projects to be presented during the Forum in September. This year we were overwhelmed with 75 applications from 22 different countries from which the 36 projects were chosen to be part of Pitching and Script Exchange sessions. Filmmakers…
05-07-2018

Macedonia Announces First Call for Support for International Promotion and Distribution of Domestic Films and Minority Co-productions

Macedonian Film Agency announced public Call for support for international promotion and promotion and distribution of domestic films and minority co-productions for the first time since its founding as a film fund in 2008. The support is given for participation on festivals and events and promotion and distribution of the…
05-07-2018

OPEN CALL: Montenegro announces Public call for co-financing of the minority co-productions

Film Centre of Montenegro announced Public call for co-financing of the minority co-productions.
03-07-2018

EFP FUTURE FRAMES at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018 Welcome to Young Filmmakers on the Rise

For the fourth year running European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) present ten of the most promising new European directors and their films in the framework of EFP FUTURE FRAMES during KVIFF. The programme is supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of…
03-07-2018

Free Oleg Sentsov

Altogether, as the representatives of the Czech documentary film community, we demand an immediate release of our colleague, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on 10 May 2014 and brought to Moscow to face what Amnesty International described as “an…
01-07-2018

MASTER CLASS FOR EFP FUTURE FRAMES 2018 ANNOUNCED

Award-Winning Writer and Director Jasmila Zbanic (GRBAVICA) to be Mentor for the EFP FUTURE FRAMES 2018 Participants
26-06-2018

Europa Distribution's Workshop on Script Analysis Karlovy Vary International Film Festival July 1 - 5 2018

Due to the high competitiveness of the film market, over the years the practice of buying films on script has become more and more common even for independent films. Today, in the distribution sector, the ability to evaluate the potential of a film from its script is a key aspect…
26-06-2018

OPEN CALL for the Film Spring Workshop

Open Call for the Film Spring Workshop started on the 12th of June 2018. The Film Spring Workshop is a 10-day international, interdisciplinary training focused on comprehensive and future-oriented audiovisual education (ca. 350 participants in 2017). The workshop will take place in Krakow, Poland, 17-26 October 2018. Building on proven…
25-06-2018

History of Love by the screenwriter and director Sonja Prosenc in the official competition programme of this year's festival in Karlovy Vary

At this year's international 53rd film festival in Karlovy Vary, which is to take place between 29 June and 7 July, the feature film History of Love by the screenwriter and director Sonja Prosenc will be featured in the official competition program. This will also be the film's world premiere.…
21-06-2018