BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Development Association (ADFR) is launching a programme supporting Romanian independent emerging film artists affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. #ADFR Survival will allocate micro-grants totalling 3,000 EUR starting 10 April 2020.
TBILISI: The SOFA 2020 Tbilisi workshop will be held online from 25 to 30 April 2020.
ZAGREB: The regional film funding initiative RE-ACT is accepting applications for the First Cut Lab RE-ACT summer session through 15 May 2020.
SKOPJE: The Macedonian VoD platform Cutaway is making more than 200 films available online, free of charge to its users.
The Thessaloniki International Film Festival shares on its YouTube channel short films by directors from the program Meet the Future
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FNE Interviews Croatian Audiovisual Centre CEO Chris Marcich: Our entire industry is at risk, but it can recover
Croatia 08-04-2020ZAGREB: Croatia has been hit hard by the COVID-19 virus, which arrived around the same time as Zagreb suffered a devastating earthquake. FNE spoke with Chris Marcich, head of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), who is fighting to save the Croatian film industry in the face of these two crises.
CLUJ: The Transilvania IFF has announced that the 2020 edition of the festival will be postponed. The festival was originally scheduled to take place 29 May – 7 June.
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s International Animation Festival Fest Anca 2020 is one of the latest batch of festivals to announce changes due to the COVID-19 crisis.
COTTBUS: FilmFestival Cottbus is accepting submissions for its 30th anniversary jubilee edition, to be held 3 – 8 November 2020.
