The 15th edition of the Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, that will be taking place 100% online, is screening 22 feature films and 16 short films. The festival launches a new programme – the Estonian Genre Competition.
EUFCN Issues Common Production Safety Guidelines As Europe Starts To Come Out of Lockdown
Region 07-05-2020BRUSSELS: The European Film Commissions Network and the European Institute for Health and Safety in Film Industry have issued common safety guidelines for filming as countries in Europe start to come out of lockdown. The guidelines provide a roadmap of best practice on film sets for film production in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
BATUMI: The 15th edition of Georgia’s Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF) has announced that it will add a special section “COVIDEO” to the 2020 festival taking place 13 – 20 September 2020.
ZAGREB: The eighth edition of the TV market NEM Dubrovnik, originally scheduled to take place in June, has postponed its event and will instead join forces with its sister event NEM Zagreb to hold a joint market in Zagreb running 9 – 11 December 2020, under the title NEM Dubrovnik Meets Zagreb.
BRATISLAVA: Fest Anča, the Slovak festival of animated films, has announced the complete line-up of films selected for its 13th edition, re-scheduled to take place 27 – 30 August 2020 in the city of Žilina, located in north-western Slovakia.
BRATISLAVA: Four new projects have been selected for the 9th edition of MIDPOINT Intensive Sk, which will take place online from 18 to 21 May 2020. The rescheduled module for Slovak filmmakers is organised in collaboration with the CHARACTER – Film Development Association and the Slovak Film Institute. MIDPOINT is supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
PRAGUE: The Czech government has announced the re-opening of cinemas on 11 May 2020, earlier than originally planned.
WARSAW: Poland’s Kino Pod Baranami has announced that it launched the first e-kino in Poland on 12 April 2020.
The Agora Doc Market was successfully completed online for the first time in its history, after the postponement of the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, due to the coronavirus.
UNIC Statement: Circumstances around Trolls World Tour do not justify wholesale changes to the business model - 29 April 2020
Press releases 30-04-2020Brussels: 29 April 2020 – The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the body representing European cinema trade associations and operators, has today issued the following statement:
The performance of Trolls Word Tour should be viewed – and only viewed – in the context of the exceptional circumstances surrounding its release and the unprecedented times we are living through. When a third of the global population is currently on some form of a Coronavirus lockdown and only 4 per cent of cinema screens around the World are open, it is hardly surprising that many have turned to VOD and similar other services.
