MALTA: Michael Haneke’s Amour swept the EFA awards winning best film, best director and best actor and actress awards leaving other contenders with little to divide between the remaining films.
MALTA: Malta will host the 25th anniversary edition of the European Film Awards 1 December at the island’s Mediterranean Conference Centre, a spectacular venue built in 1574.
TALLINN: The Baltic Event CoProduction Market, 25-28 November 2012 (be.poff.ee) gave its top prize of 5000 EUR in post production services at the new Estonian Digital Centre, to Lithuanian producer Rasa Miskinyte, head of Vilnius based Era Film (www.erafilm.lt) who presented the project Escaping Sunshine.
TALLINN: The grand prix of the 16th Black Nights Film Festival (www.poff.ee) was awarded to the Ukrainian film House with a Turret, the Tridens Herring competition prize was awarded to Everybody's Gone directed by Georgi Paradzhanov.
FNE at Europa Cinemas: FNE offers you its Cinema of the Month print version, published in honour of the Europa Cinemas conference which kicks of in Paris today, 23 November 2012.
VILNIUS: Estonian director Ivan Pavljutskov won the Best Baltic Short prize for his film White Square as the Scanorama Film Festival (8-18 November 2012, www.scanorama.lt/en) wrapped up its 10 days in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius before rolling on to screenings in other cities around the country until 25 November.
FNE asks Nik Powell about the future of Creative Europe and how producers in small and large countries can build effective partnerships.
MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex has announced that it is already fully booked until the end of 2012. The strong uptake from film and TV productions in just four months reflects the strong growth in the Russian audiovisual production sector.
PRAGUE: Despite a veto by Czech President Vaclav Klaus earlier this week of a new law redefining support for audiovisual production and cinematography Czech industry professionals have assured partners that incentives will continue in 2013.
FNE Interview with Pavel Strand Former Chairman of Czech Audiovisual Prodcuers Association
Czech Republic 10-02-2010
FNE spoke with Pavel Strnad, chairman of the Czech Audiovisual Producers' Association about the current state of the Czech film industry
