The Independent Cinema Office (ICO - the UK’s national organisation for the development and support of independent film exhibition) is excited to announce details of speakers for Developing Your Film Festival, its flagship course this summer.
20th International Festival of Local Television, Kosice, Slovakia
Jury Awards:
- Golden Beggar for the best local television program
Sower (Poland /Belsat), directed by: Jerzy Kalina, chosen for the way it skilfully uses the rhythm of sowing and harvesting as a metaphor for life.
- Golden Beggar for the best production company film
La Parada (Spain), directed by: Lino Varela Cerviño, chosen for the quietly intense way in which it told a national drama through one person.
- Golden Beggar for the best young author’s film
Electric Indigo (Belgium), directed by: Jean–Julien Collette, chosen for the originality of its story and the smartness of its execution.
- Prize of the Journalists Association of Serbia “Zora”
Goran (Serbia), directed by: Roberto Santaguida, chosen for the technique it developed to permit a man with disabilities to tell his own story.
- Prize of the Slovak Council for Broadcasting and Transmission for the Best Slovak Film
Sledge Hockey (Slovakia), directed by: Matej Ligač, chosen for the sympathetic yet direct way in which It tells the story of a young man who transforms a handicap.
- Prize of the TV Festival Vitez
Battiti (Italy), directed by: Simeone Latini, chosen for the elegant simplicity with which it tells the story of an unexpected pregnancy.
- Prize of the Fogelsong Family Foundation of the USA
Destino (France), directed by: Zangro, Sylvain de Zagroniz, chosen for the wonderfully animated way in which it tells a love story.
- Honorable mentions of the jury
Historias de Balcones (Cuba/Denmark) Directed by: Helle Windeløv-Lindzélius
Not Alone (Belarus) Directed by: Volha Dashuk
I and Lucia (Slovakia) Directed by: Peter Komár
Echoes (Spain) Directed by: Sergio Martinez Alberto
The Fugue (France) Directed by: Xavier Bonnin
Faces (Italy) Directed by: Antonio de Palo
Ten European directors present their films at Karlovy Vary
DIE HEIMATLOSEN receives FFA Funding
7th INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL FEST ANCA (June 18 – 26, 2014) / Zilina, Slovakia
TRENSIANSKE TEPLICE: Slovakia will have a domestic fairytale in cinemas in October 2014 with the premiere of Laska na Vlasku, a 15th century romance directed by Mariana Cengel Solcanska, and the first Slovak fairytale made in almost 15 years.
This year for the first time FNE together with FIPRESCI will offer the ratings of all films in the main competition and the East of the West competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.
Deadline for submitting your new documentary films to East Silver market is approaching: only two weeks left! Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe.
RIGA: The Latvian Film Centre will finance seven projects under its newly introduced debut film tender.
WARSAW: Poland’s public broadcaster Polish TV has expanded its digital coverage to 99.5 percent of the population, according to the Ministry of Administration and Digitalisation.
