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AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING – TERRY SANDERS

Terry Sanders (born New York, 1931) is a director, producer and writer, who has been granted the Academy Award® twice.
29-09-2009

A decade of a unique music festival in a documentary collage All Tomorrow’s Parties

While Europe follows the rhythm of a number of huge music festivals, Kaunas International Film Festival offers its viewers an opportunity to get acquainted with one of the most popular events, All Tomorrow's Parties, which takes place at a holiday camp by the sea in the UK and has been…
28-09-2009

DOC ALLIANCE FILMS - The New Deal for Feature Documentaries

Doc Alliance is a partnership which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of five key European documentary film festivals - CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISIONS DU REEL Nyon.
25-09-2009

Kaunas Film Festival introduces artists, musicians and filmmakers

The third Kaunas International Film Festival will begin on October 1 and will introduce to cineastes more guests than just filmmakers, who are the traditional visitors of film festivals. The festival will be visited by three film music composers and the world famous Lithuanian artist Stasys Eidrigevičius, who has significantly…
25-09-2009

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS WITH NEW CATEGORY FOR ANIMATION

The European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, take great pleasure in announcing the creation of a new award category for the European Film Awards:
25-09-2009

GORMITI, the Lords of Nature return

Global children's animation series set to air in the US, Europe and Middle East
16-09-2009

ITV STUDIOS SPAIN FORMAT "PASAPALABRA" ARRIVES IN TURKEY

Wednesday 16 September 2009, ITV Studios, Global Entertainment has licensed its hit entertainment format Pasapalabra to Turkey's Star TV, following on from the formats unrivalled success in Spain on Telecinco and September premiere on France 2.
16-09-2009

PROJECTS SELECTED TO THE 4TH EDITION OF SCRIPTEAST ANNOUNCED!

Every year more and more scriptwriters from Central and Eastern Europe submit their projects to ScripTeast and therefore selecting only 12 projects is getting more and more difficult. This year the Independent Film Foundation, organizer of ScripTeast, received a record number of projects, coming from all of the countries of…
15-09-2009

EFA HONOURS KEN LOACH

At the 22nd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will present an honorary award to Ken Loach
14-09-2009

Backing by MEDIA International for two new EFP projects in 2010

European Film Promotion (EFP) is pleased to announce the financial support by MEDIA International for two new events in 2010, taking place at the international film festivals in Toronto and Istanbul. The aim of the new MEDIA International programme is to structure and strengthen relations and networks between EU and…
10-09-2009

FSS supports record breaking number of films at TIFF 2009

55 European films to be backed by European Film Promotion's marketing tool Record breaking number of films to be supported by FSS at the Toronto International Film Festival
09-09-2009

MAIA WORKSHOPS in Modra (Bratislava) in October

Dear friends, MAIA Workshops is a training programme targeted to emerging European producers supported by the Media Programme since 2006. It is structured in 3 residential workshops that take place in April, June and October and deals with all aspects of development including creative, legal, financial, marketing and distribution issues.
09-09-2009

POLISH films at The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival

The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival is delighted to announce that this year's programme includes FOUR films from POLAND. This is part of a worldwide selection of over 190 feature films and over 110 shorts from more than 50 countries. The Festival runs from October 14 -October 29.
09-09-2009

CALL FOR ENTRIES!! Baltic Event Co-Production Market

29 November - 2 December 2009, Tallinn Entry deadline: September 15, 2009
08-09-2009

EUROPEAN ANIMATION HONOURS THIS YEAR'S PROTAGONISTS AT CARTOON TRIBUTES 2009

European animation professionals will select Broadcaster, Distributor/Investor and Producer of the Year. The tributes will be awarded at Cartoon Forum 2009, the European animation industry's annual meeting point.
07-09-2009

THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009

- THE SELECTION -
07-09-2009

Emir Kusturica at the first Romania International Film Festival

The Ro-IFF (September 26 to October 4, 2009) presents a special Focus program for acclaimed Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Kusturica and his Non Smoking Orchestra will also open the festival with a concert on Saturday, September 26.
27-08-2009

TALLINN 2011 & EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY

European Film Academy to meet with organisers of 2010 European film gala in Tallinn
25-08-2009

DOCBOAT - Warsaw Nonfiction e-fest

On July 24 the submissions for the first edition of the Internet documentary festival DOCBOAT/WARSAW NONFICTION E-FEST were closed. The festival starts in September (www.iplex.pl). We received a lot of movies from around the world. They are very enjoyable to watch, but we must also prepare ourselves for the difficult…
25-08-2009

Latvian Filmmakers Support the Independent Status of the National Film Centre of Latvia

On 12th of August, about 200 Latvian film professionals carried out a unique support action defending the independent legal status of the National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC). Latvian filmmakers insisted on film industry free from any political influence, thus protesting against the reform plan presented by Latvian State Chancellery…
19-08-2009