This month we take a break from out usual distributors list and we speak with Xavier Henry-Rashid, Managing Director at Film Republic, a London-based world sales agency specialised in art house fiction and cinematic documentaries.
VALLETTA: Naomi Kawase's An won the Triton award for Best Film at the 1st edition of the first competitive film festival in Malta, Valletta Film Festival which wrapped 21 June 2015.
PRODUCTION: Swiss Croatian Animation Project Chris the Swiss Begins Production in Zagreb
Croatia 22-06-2015ZAGREB: Anja Kofmel’s Swiss/Croatian coproduction Chris the Swiss began production in Zagreb mid-June 2015. This is the first animated film benefiting from the incentives scheme launched by HAVC in 2012.
BUDAPEST: Cinemadanube.com has signed an agreement with the Hungarian National Digital Archive (MaNDA), for the VOD distribution of 46 Hungarian classics in the US.
VILNIUS: EAVE Producers Workshop 2016 will take place in Luxembourg, Lithuania and Czech Republic. The deadline for application is 18 September 2015.
LJUBLJANA: Delegates meeting at the General Assembly of the Federation of European Film Directors (FERA) called on members of the European Commission and Parliament to enact FERA’s five point action plan as part of the Digital Single Market initiative.
Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) is proud to present 12 upcoming documentary projects from the Central and Eastern Europe that have been selected for 13th edition of Ex Oriente Film.
TOULOUSE: Projects from Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia will be pitched at the 26th edition of Cartoon Forum, the coproduction platform for European animation series (15-18 September 2015).
BUDAPEST: László Nemes’s debut feature Son of Saul opened third at the Hungarian box office and sold 10,541 tickets in its first weekend. It was also selected as the official Hungarian entry in the foreign-language film category of the Oscars.
ZAGREB: Steven Quale’s action thriller The Lake, produced by Luc Besson through EuropaCorp started shooting in Croatia on 17 June 2015. The film is the most ambitious international production filming in Croatia this year.
