The following grants were announced on 30 November 2016.
VILNIUS: Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson was appointed Minister of Culture in Lithuania. She was previously the head of Department of Film Promotion, Information and Heritage in the Lithuanian Film Centre.
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry professionals across Europe. Click here for FNE UNIC EU Cinema Policy Update.
The following grants were announced at the second session in 2016, on 12 December 2016.
Jan Naszewski’s Polish sales outlet New Europe Film Sales announced that the popular programmer Marcin Łuczaj has joined the team of the Warsaw-based company as Acquisitons Executive and Head of Short Film Sales. He will represent New Europe at co-production markets and short film markets and coordinate the company’s acquisition efforts.
LOS ANGELES: German/Austrian/Romanian coproduction Toni Erdmann, directed by Maren Ade, was nominated for the Golden Globe in the Foreign Language Film category.
NICOSIA: Life Routes: Cyprus, a research project by five young people from Cyprus exploring spaces of everyday life, division and co-existence in their country, premiered in Nicosia on 12 December 2016.
FILMFÖRDERUNGSANSTALT (FFA) IS THE NEW PARTNER OF THE POLISH-GERMAN FILM FUND
Press releases 11-12-2016On 9 December 2016, representatives of the institutions participating in the Polish-German
Film Fund: Magdalena Sroka, head of the Polish Film Institute; Peter Dinges, head of
Filmförderungsanstalt; Kirsten Niehuus, head of Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and Claas
Danielsen, head of Mitteldeutsche Medienfoerderung, signed an agreement on cooperation
within the framework of the Polish-German Film Fund, which added the FFA Federal Film Fund
(Filmförderungsanstalt) as a new partner of this initiative. Magdalena Sroka, head of the Polish
Film Institute, announced that the Polish financial contribution to the Polish-German Film
Fund will be increased to 150,000 euros. With FFA as the new partner, the annual budget of
the Polish-German Film Fund will increase from 300,000 euros to 500,000 euros.
The latest round of grants for 2016 was announced by Film Center Serbia on 7 December 2016.
