PRAGUE: The Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) has announced the nominations for the 29th annual Czech Lion awards. Occupation and Zátopek scored thirteen nods each, followed by The Man with Hare Ears, Bird Atlas and Emma in Love, with eleven, nine and eight nominations respectively. A total amount of 25 films will vie in 19 categories.
The most nominations for the Czech Lion award were obtained by two films - Occupation and Zátopek
Press releases 18-01-2022The Czech Lion knows the nominations for the year of 2021, the results were published today by the Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA). Altogether 184 academics were choosing from 84 feature actors’ films, documentary features, animated and short films and television works of art that had fulfilled the statutes of the Czech Lion Awards.
Cinema platform CinExpress, with the financial support of the Georgian National Film Center, publishes an electronic magazine, which will be available to a mass audience at the end of January free of charge.
TRIESTE: The 33rd edition of the Trieste Film Festival, running in person this year on 21 – 30 January, has announced its competition programme lineup.
WEMW 2022 Announces Full Lineup of Work in Progress Sections, Slate Market and Inspirational Labs
Region 14-01-2022TRIESTE: When East Meets West kicks off on 24 January 2022 in the frame of the Trieste Film Festival, in a unique hybrid format combining digital connections and real emotions.
The short animated film Suzie in the Garden by director Lucie Sunková made it to the Generation Kplus Competition section of the 72nd Berlinale. This category dedicated to child audiences offers dozens of short films every year, including animated ones. The last representative of Czech animation in 2020 was the student film Lístek (Leaf), which was directed by Aliona Baranova.
Brussels: Friday 14 January 2022 - The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the industry grouping representing the interests of European cinema trade associations and operators across 39 territories, has today issued a rallying call for all involved in the European and global cinema industry to support the sector as its strong recovery from the impacts of COVID accelerates into 2022.
22 new untold stories will be revealed at the upcoming hybryd edition of the Trieste Co-Production Forum
Press releases 09-01-202222 film projects from 18 countries will be presented at the 12th edition of When East Meets West, the Italian Co-Production Forum taking place in a special hybrid format from January 24-28, 2022 in the frame of the Trieste Film Festival. The 22 projects in development - 10 feature documentaries and 12 fiction features - were selected out of a record number of 435 submissions from 56 different countries and will be presented, most of them for the very first time, to more than 600 decision makers and professionals from all over the world, in particular from the East & West 2022 spotlight countries: Russia & UK, Ireland, Canada, USA.
BUDAPEST: Producer Viktoria Petrányi, the co-founder of Proton Cinema, whose long list of credits includes Hungarian award-winning titles such as White God, as well as acclaimed international productions, talks to FNE about the Hungarian production sector as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Copyright Directive
02/12: December infringements package: the Commission calls on Romania to comply with EU copyright rules - European Commission
The Commission has decided to send an additional letter of formal notice to Romania on the grounds that their national rules on the management of rights in musical works run contrary to EU copyright rules.
Creative Europe MEDIA
06/12: 12 MEDIA-supported films gather 25 nominations at the European Film Awards - European Commission
The 34th edition of the European Film Awards (EFA), which celebrate and reward the greatest achievements in Europen cinema, took place on 11 December as a hybrid event.
Council Conclusions
30/11: Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council, 29-30 November 2021 - Council of the European Union
Proposed actions include encouraging the greater availability of original content in different language versions, promoting efficient marketing tools and film audience strategies, improving and facilitating the discoverability of creative content online in all EU languages and encouraging an increase in the volume of European audiovisual works in on-demand catalogues.
EUIPO studies
10/12: EUIPO study shows drop in online piracy for TV programmes, music and film - European Commission
Online piracy has posed a significant problem in the European Union. Recognising this, the European Commission has made fighting this type of copyright infringement one of its priorities in the IP Action Plan.
10/12: Joint EUIPO and European Commission report details enforcement results of IPRs - European Commission
The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have released an annual report on ‘EU enforcement of intellectual property rights: Results at the EU border and in the EU internal market 2020’.
LUX Audience Award
12/12: Flee, Great Freedom and Quo Vadis Aida? will compete for LUX Audience Award - European Parliament
During a ceremony on Saturday, the three films shortlisted for the 2022 LUX Audience Award were revealed at the European Film Awards in Berlin.
Recent Studies
EUIPO - Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union: Music, Films and TV (2017-2020), Trends and Drivers - December 2021
EAO - Animation films and TV series in Europe - December 2021
MUSO - Monthly Film Data Insights - November 2021
Events
1 January 2022: French EU Presidency of the EU
10 January: JURI committee meeting
11 January: UNIC screening
13 January: CULT committee meeting
25/26 January: Presidency conference on AV in Angers
26-27 January: JURI committee meeting
