CLUJ-NAPOCA: Twelve first and sophomore features by directors from around the world have been selected for the main competition of the 19th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival. The festival was postponed from its initial dates to 31 July - 9 August 2020 and will take place exclusively in the open-air.
BUCHAREST: The DoP/producer/director Liviu Mărghidan is currently in production with his third feature film as a director. Refuge (working title) is an adventure drama whose shooting entails a high degree of risk but which is a balance of his passion for cinema with a passion for climbing. The shooting takes place at an altitude ranging from 1,600 to 2,000 meters with two children in the cast.
11th UnderhillFest held in Podgorica - Citizens of the world in Njegos park
Press releases 17-06-2020Since 2010 International festival of feature documentary film UnderhillFest represents a cross-section of very significant and artistically acclaimed documentaries. Respecting all the measures by the National coordination body for infectious diseases – from 16th to 23rd June 2020, audience in Podgorica had the opportunity to watch 19 films, different documentary stories, at the BC Buducnost in Njegos park as well as in the National library “Radosav Ljumović”.
Understanding Documentary Film Audiences in Europe Findings from the Moving Docs Survey 2020
Press releases 16-07-2020MAKEDOX 17.08.2018 Over the Limit Moving Docs Screeing
In 2019, Moving Docs – a European partnership for the joint distribution of documentaries across Europe - ran an online survey of documentary audiences across Europe with the support of Creative Europe.
Written by Dr Huw D Jones (University of Southampton, UK) and published in July 2020, the survey seeks to find out who watches documentaries and where, what kind of impact do they have, and how can we encourage people to watch more documentaries?
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WARSAW: The 45th edition of the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia will take place from November 9-14, 2020. Film screenings will take place without the participation of the audience.
"In order to meet the expectations of the film industry, the Organizing Committee of the Polish Film Festival unanimously decided to organize the 45th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia this year. The event will take place from November 9-14, 2020 in a hybrid form" the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) informed the media.
According to the new, preliminary concept, the competition films will be shown with the participation of journalists, but without the participation of the audience. The press conferences accompanying the projections with the participation of the creators will be broadcast online. The event was originally scheduled for September 2020, but the coronavirus pandemic forced the organizers to reschedule. Initially, the decision was made to move the festival to 2021, in June it was agreed that the 45th edition of the FPFF will take place in 2020.
On 1 May 2020, it was announced that Tomasz Kolankiewicz won the competition for the Artistic Director of the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. This position was restored as part of the organizational reform of the festival, carried out as a result of extensive consultations with the Polish filmmakers community.
Feature film productions supported by the Polish Film Insitute in the 2nd session of 2020.
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov starts preparations to his new film, a crime drama Rhinoceros. The film will be made in co-production of Ukraine, Poland and Germany.
Rhinoceros is a crime drama that unfolds in the 90s in Ukraine, the times that have changed us all: it was the transition from the Soviet Union to our modern days, but all those challenges are still relevant to our society. "We have seen a lot of films about criminals but I am interested mostly in an average person: what a person feels, why they act this way, whether such a person can change... After all, there are no bad people, there are people who do bad things," director and screenwriter Oleg Sentsov says.
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CICAE General Assembly – 10 September 2020 via zoom
Considering the context of the pandemic, CICAE will organize its annual General Assembly via Zoom on September 10, 2020, starting at 15:00 (GMT+2).
All members of the association are invited to participate. A French-English translation will be provided.
We will send all members the agenda of the meeting and the registration form in the first half of August
Romanian Film Awards during coronavirus pandemic Gopo Awards adapts big scale ceremony to outdoor format
Press releases 04-07-2020With cinemas being still closed and international film festivals postponed or canceled, the Gopo AwardsWith cinemas being still closed and international film festivals postponed or canceled, the Gopo Awards - the Romanian national film awards offer a good practice example about how a similar event couldhappen under strong safety and health measures taken during coronavirus pandemic.
Recognitions to Stitches and God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija at Sofia IFF
Press releases 14-07-2020Fiction feature Stitches, a Croatian minority co-production directed by Miroslav Terzić, received the Balkan Competition jury special mention, while God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, also a Croatian minority co-production, won the Bulgarian Film Critics Guild Award.
This year’s edition of Sofia International Film Festival is divided into two instalments – the summer and autumn edition. The summer edition was launched on 25th June, while screenings of films from different programmes will continue until 19th July. The awards ceremony took place on Monday, 6th July. During its summer edition, Sofia IFF will screen 111 films from 48 countries. A portion of the films were shown at the Cinema House film theatre in Sofia, while others were screened online.
