IDF is using its platform to garner financial support for ailing Georgian filmmaker Temo Tsava.
Georgian cinema is on the rise with films selected in Berlin, Cannes and Venice in 2014, and an Estonian/Georgian coproduction, Tangerines (produced by Estonia’s Allfilm and Georgia’s Cinema24) nominated for the Golden Globes.
Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski has won the European Parliament's LUX Prize 2014.
FNE spoke to the young Latvian producer and director Andris Gauja of The Lesson about how the new generation of Latvian filmmakers are using crowd funding, pitching sessions and other innovative tools to put films from small countries on the international map.
The launch of Slovakia’s Audiovisual Fund five years ago has reaped benefits for Slovak film production abroad and at home. Slovakia continues to find success internationally, powered by its documentary film production and more recently by genre-bending feature film productions informed by documentary techniques, with a pair of female directors receiving the lion’s share of laurels over the past year.
The Lithuanian film industry noted several recent successes with films selected for major festivals that found favour at the local box office and with the announcement that 23-year old Lithuanian actress Aistė Diržiūtė had been selected as one of the EFP Shooting Stars of 2015. The foreign film servicing industry continues to do well.
« New Dimension for International Distribution » 11,12 December 2014, Morocco
The State Cinematography Fund, Czech Republic has been the main tool for public support of cinematography in the Czech Republic since 1992. In 2013 it adopted a new Cinematography Act and became an independent institution with its own director, new financial structure and a Council assessing and deciding individual requests for state support.
THE LATVIAN NATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL “LIELAIS KRISTAPS” – 2014 /THE GREAT CHRISTOPHER // 02.12. – 11.12.2014 ANNOUNCES AWARDS WINNERS
Festivals 12-12-2014The National Film Festival “Lielais Kristaps” (Great Christopher) announces awards winners. On Thursday, December 11 the Latvian National Film Festival “Great Christopher” came to a close following a rich and diverse week-long film and events programme. During the awards ceremony the Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to film director and cinematographer Ivars Seleckis and editor Maija Selecka by famous Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann.
After a gap in funding, production resumed in 2014, but the crisis was visible in the slow pace of foreign film productions shooting in Romania. New multiplexes opened and new distributors appeared, but the box office and the number of releases slightly fell after the soaring increases of the last few years.
