IDFA's Jan Vrijman Fund is now looking for proposals for creative documentaries and events that offer a platform for documentaries and filmmakers in and from developing countries. Application deadline: May 15, 2011.
The movie returns to Prague crowned with prizes
Prague, April 20, 2011 - Top Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko's Bathory was given WorldFest REMI Special Jury Award at Worldfest, the Houston-based international film festival that took place in April 8 - 17, 2011. This award is the highest prize awarded by the festival and is above Gold and Platinum awards. On top of this remarkable award, Bathory also won Gold REMI Award for Best Art Direction. An official festival press release called the movie one of the "Best of Show" in all features.
Despite the fact the movie had been completed three years ago, it keeps being highly awarded at internetional films festivals, keeps filling movie theatres and winning the hearts of audiences, be it a wide general public or professional jurors. This huge success is driven mainly by the artistic vision of world filmmaker Juraj Jakubisko and his ability to transform his visions on the screen in his special poetic way. Bathory's success also proves that a good movie is able to address viewers anywhere in the world, regardless of their culture, beliefs and living conditions.
WorldFest is one of the oldest festivals of the independent film in the world. It is radically different from the other film festivals by its monumental extent - it has had ten major categories and more than 3.500 movies took part in the competition this year. This makes an award to Bathory even more remarkable; the movie has already been over the main period of nominations but has still been one of the most successful movies of the Czech and Slovak cinema. Juraj Jakubisko, its director, whose movie language never gets old, has thus joined the group of important movie gurus awarded at this film festival, like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ang Lee, Brian de Palma, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, David Lynch, The Coen Brothers and others.
Currently, Juraj Jakubisko has started to work on a new project - The Slav Epic, the two-part mega-movie. Again, therefore, he turns to history, this time on a larger scale though. The movie will map the history and significance of hitherto relatively neglected group of nations - the Slavs, and the importance of the Slavonic ideas, Christianity and other history factors. Those who love historical films and the art of Juraj Jakubisko, founder of magical realism, Fellini of the East or, as his American admirers call him, Marquez of the Silver Screen can again start looking forward to a new piece of Jakubisko's art.
Further information: Robert Nerpas, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , phone +420 602 289 752
The most respected filmmaker in the history of Romanian cinema, director Lucian Pintilie, will be one of the guests of honour of the 10th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival.
The festival audience & guests will be able to watch the Romanian master's complete film works – consisting in 10 features and a medium length film – in an unprecedented & extensive retrospective. It is also the first and only time that Lucian Pintilie accepts to attend the screenings & meet the audience of a Romanian film festival.
Dear professional,
As you know the MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Bulgaria, Czeck Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia).
To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON MASTERS.
The next Cartoon FINANCE will be held in Viborg (Denmark) on 29th and 30th June 2011.
CARTOON will cover hotel and meals expenses and refund up to a maximum of 250 EUR for transportation.
For further information, please consult CARTOON's website www.cartoon-media.eu
and download the documents at the following address
http://www.cartoon-media.eu/MASTERS/scholar.php
The application deadline for CARTOON FINANCE (Viborg) is 20 May 2011.
Kind regards,
Yolanda ALONSO
Director
Cartoon Masters & Cartoon Connection
CARTOON
Avenue Huart Hamoir 105
1030 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel+ 32 2 242 93 53
http://www.cartoon-media.eu - http://www.facebook.com/CARTOON.eu
Dear professional,
As you know the MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Bulgaria, Czeck Republic, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia).
To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON MASTERS.
The next Cartoon FINANCE will be held in Viborg (Denmark) on 29th and 30th June 2011.
CARTOON will cover hotel and meals expenses and refund up to a maximum of 250 EUR for transportation.
For further information, please consult CARTOON's website www.cartoon-media.eu
and download the documents at the following address
http://www.cartoon-media.eu/MASTERS/scholar.php
The application deadline for CARTOON FINANCE (Viborg) is 20 May 2011.
Kind regards,
Yolanda ALONSO
Director
Cartoon Masters & Cartoon Connection
CARTOON
Avenue Huart Hamoir 105
1030 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel+ 32 2 242 93 53
http://www.cartoon-media.eu - http://www.facebook.com/CARTOON.eu
HBO Central Europe wins PromaxBDA Gold Award for Best Integrated Marketing Campaign
Press releases 21-04-2011Budapest, April 18, 2011
HBO Central Europe (HBO CE) has won the gold award for Best Integrated Marketing Campaign for the Cinemax Brand Recognition campaign at last week's 2011 PromaxBDA conference in Berlin, which awards a commitment to excellence in marketing and creativity.
PROMAX is the world's leading and most prestigious broadcast and design conference and award, with forty categories, five-six nominations in each category and more than two-thousand entries this year.
Entries from HBO CE's Creative Service were in the top five in four categories: the Best Image Campaign for the Cinemax Launch Attitude Campaign, the Best Sound Design for HBO's "El Orphanto" spot, the Best On-Air Identity for the Cinemax graphic package and the winning Cinemax Brand Recognition campaign.
"Winning the Promax Gold Award is undeniable proof of the enormous talent within the Creative Services department of HBO Central Europe," said Balázs Böjthe, Brand Manager of Cinemax. "We are honored by the industry's recognition of our work, which I know will inspire the team to continue to produce ever more creative campaigns in the future."
The winning Cinemax campaign, which ran in 2010 in Poland when HBO Central Europe re-branded the Cinemax channels, was produced by the Creative Services department of HBO Central Europe in full cooperation with the online team in Budapest and the marketing team in Warsaw.
"The Promax Gold Award is a first for HBO Central Europe, I am proud of the innovation and creativity of the team," added Gábor Varga, Head of Creative Services of HBO Central Europe.
On April 11, 2011, Gábor Varga has been invited to represent HBO Central Europe on the PromaxBDA advisory committee, creating an excellent opportunity to bring the central European region into the professional world of Promax.
HBO's Cinemax Brand Recognition campaign was selected by an expert panel of judges using a scoring system based on three separate criteria, overall creativity, production quality and achievement of stated or implied marketing objectives. The integrated campaign consisted of online communication, print materials and video spots for both TV and online. The objective of the campaign was to create a buzz around the Cinemax brand and associate the brand with movies. The campaign centered around a fun movie quiz with pictures and videos, heavily supported by a social media presence, creative banners on top sites, print media and video with the tagline "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MOVIES?", directing viewers to the Cinemax branded quiz site.
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Press contact
Gerry Buckland
HBO CE Corporate Communications
+336 1757 3478 / +44 7774 860011 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
HBO Central Europe - HBO Holding Llc. H-1117 Budapest, Irinyi J. u. 4-20. T.: +36 1 372 3700 F.: +36 1 209 7607 www.hbo-centraleurope.com
About HBO Central Europe
Home Box Office, America's leading premium television network, provides basic and premium pay television entertainment channels for cable TV, Direct-to-Home and MMDS platforms. HBO Central Europe - owned by Home Box Office Inc. - currently provides basic and premium channels to 14 countries in the region, including: Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia.
HBO CE offers five high quality movie channels (HBO, HBO2, HBO Comedy, Cinemax and Cinemax2) and a digital package (HBO HD, HBO2 HD, HBO Comedy HD, Cinemax HD, Cinemax2 HD, broadcasting HBO and Cinemax programming in high definition, HBO ON DEMAND, HBO's subscription video on demand service and HBO GO, HBO's broadband SVOD service) with unique programming and broad audience appeal.
The headquarters of HBO Central Europe is in Budapest, Hungary.
About PromaxBDA
PROMAX is the world's premier body for promotion and marketing professionals working in electronic and broadcast media. BDA is the world's leading association of broadcast and multimedia designers.
Every Promax/BDA annual conference brings together creative minds, exploring the future direction of our industry. Each occasion reflects the cultural identity of its location, showcasing the latest technology and developments that will impact on our work, and demonstrating the thinking that will guide us into the future.
Throughout the world the Promax/BDA awards, which are presented in each region, are regarded as the most prestigious awards for creative endeavor in this field. Their reach also extends into the academic community where they identify and nurture the future generation of promotion, marketing and design professionals.
The conferences taking place in Europe, Arabia, USA, Asia, Australia, Africa, New Zealand, Latin America and the UK, Promax/BDA is a truly international organization uniting the individuals who will pioneer tomorrow's electronic and broadcast media.
The Robert Bosch Stiftung awarded a total of 210,000 euros to three CEE films, including a Hungarian/German documentary, Roma Rally, and the Romanian/German short film Pepsi directed by Peter Kerek.
April 18, 2011 two new movie channels has started to broadcast in Spain on Starmax HD platform. Today FilmBox and FilmBox España can be watched by Spanish viewers. Kino Polska TV S.A. which is the producer of those two channels is also offering TV content for viewers in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Poland.
”Spain is another country, for which we are producing thematic channels from the popular TV family FilmBox”, said Piotr Reisch, C.E.O. of Kino Polska TV S.A. “In addition to the basic channel FilmBox, which is presenting the best movies from around the world, we propose to Spanish viewers a completely new channel FilmBox España. This new channel will be presenting European movies only, especially those produced in Spain”.
Following our activities on others markets FilmBox is treated by viewers as a entertainment in purest form. Every client of Starmax HD will find something interesting for himself, thanks to FilmBox’s rich programming offer. You can choose from comedies, romances, dramas, westerns, psychological thrillers, action movies, family propositions… – basically all genres of films here, are worthy to present.
Starmax HD is a modern satellite pay – TV platform in Spain which uses pre-paid way of subscription model with no contracts. The new operator has started in March, 29. Except good movies from the FilmBox offers you can also find other thematic channels, such as: Somos, XTRM, Cinematika, Natura, KidsCo, BBC Entertainment, Eurosport 2, Eurosport HD, MGM HD and Discovery World HD.
More information:
Agnieszka Lapinska
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Kino Polska TV S.A.
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All the time you can still put forward a films for the fifth edition of the Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES.
Programming Department led by Grazyna Torbicka is waiting for the productions of feature films, documentary, animation and experimental, which during the first week of August will be presented to the public under the section: World Under Canvas, In The Short Run, and as the proposals of the Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition.
The Main Prize is 3000 PLN. There would also be two Distinctions and Two Prizes of 1000 PLN.
Traditionally, the proposals in the Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition will be judge by Independent Jury, which in June will be composed of the spectators of the festival.
Deadline for registrations is 27th May. Rules and entry form is on the www.dwabrzegi.pl
See you in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula and Janowiec from 30th July to 7th August.
All the time you can still put forward a films for the fifth edition of the Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES.
Programming Department led by Grazyna Torbicka is waiting for the productions of feature films, documentary, animation and experimental, which during the first week of August will be presented to the public under the section: World Under Canvas, In The Short Run, and as the proposals of the Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition.
The Main Prize is 3000 PLN. There would also be two Distinctions and Two Prizes of 1000 PLN.
Traditionally, the proposals in the Independent School and Amateur Short Films Competition will be judge by Independent Jury, which in June will be composed of the spectators of the festival.
Deadline for registrations is 27th May. Rules and entry form is on the www.dwabrzegi.pl
See you in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula and Janowiec from 30th July to 7th August.
