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MALTA: The recent European Film Academy Awards have shown a spotlight on the Malta Film Commission (www.mfc.com.mt) and new developments in the film industry in Malta.

MALTA: Film Corporation (www.filmok.org) has become one of the leaders in European production services during its five short years of operation in Malta with over a dozen international productions serviced from Germany, Russia, Japan, France and the UK.

TALLINN: A new, young generation of Kazakh filmmakers have opened the doors to European producers and coproducers in Kazakhstan.

FNE TV spoke to European Film Academy Board members Krzysztof Zanussi (Click Here) who helms Poland’s Tor Studios and Hungarian producer Laszlo Kantor (Click Here) responsible for Central and Eastern Europe at the EFA about what are the most important issues facing the European film industry today.

MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex is already looking at a busy start to 2013 after finishing up its first year of operation with nearly full capacity bookings. 

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.