ASTRA IS READY FOR A JOURNEY IN SPACE. SHOOTING OF A NEW FILM BY MICHAŁ ŁUBIŃSKI BEGAN
Press releases 18-05-2021Spectacular and unbelievable adventures will happen in the real micro-world of stop-motion when 6-years old girl flies into space to save a sister! The universal story about sisterly love and the inevitable difficulty of life starts when Astra tries to stop Anna from participation in the dangerous mission. Yet nothing will stop her from going to outer space when Anna needs her help. The shooting of a new puppet animation “Astra” began in early May this year in the Audiovisual Technology Center in Wroclaw, Poland. The title character will be accompanied by five other heroes, created in the puppet studio in Łódź.
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COVID-19: Cultural and Creative Sectors
10/05: Culture and Education committee backs new Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Solidarity Corps programmes – European Parliament
Culture and Education MEPs adopted its recommendation for European Parliament to back the 2021-2027 editions of Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps.
06/05: Music streaming and its impact on composers and songwriters. Why we should fix streaming now - European Composer and Songwriter Alliance
ECSA call both policy makers and all stakeholders in the music sector to promote a fairer and more transparent ecosystem for music streaming, which could finally benefit music creators, who are at the origin of all musical creations.
COVID-19: EU response
12/05: Spring 2021 Economic Forecast: Rolling up sleeves – European Commission
The Spring 2021 Economic Forecast projects that the EU economy will expand by 4.2% in 2021 and by 4.4% in 2022. The euro area economy is forecast to grow by 4.3% this year and 4.4% next year.
11/05: Next Generation EU: An opportunity in a crisis – The Parliament Magazine
The EU recovery fund presents the ideal chance to create a more social and sustainable Europe in the future; let’s seize it, writes Dennis Radtke.
05/05: Q&A on the EU COVID-19 certificate – European Parliament
04/05: EU recovery plans must address gaps that the COVID-19 crisis has exposed – The Parliament Magazine
More than strategies, we need actions to help EU industry regain its competitiveness, argues the EESC’s Stefano Mallia.
Antitrust
/05: European Commission: 2019 Commitment Decision involving major film studios and Sky UK withdrawn – EAO Newsletter
On 31 March 2021, the European Commission withdrew an important 2019 Commitment Decision which had made commitments binding a number of well-known film studios and the broadcaster Sky UK to address the Commission’s concerns regarding clauses in the studios' licensing contracts for pay-TV with Sky UK.
Digital tax
12/05: Statement by Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager following today's Court judgments on the Amazon and Engie tax State aid cases in Luxembourg – European Commission
European LUX Award
12/05: LUX audience week: opportunity to watch and vote for films online – European Parliament
During the LUX Audience Week audiences across Europe are offered to watch the nominated films for the LUX Audience Award 2021 online for free on the LUX virtual cinema.
Czech Republic
10/05: State aid: Commission approves €1.9 billion Czech scheme to support companies in context of coronavirus outbreak – European Commission
The European Commission has approved an approximately € 1.9 billion (CZK 50 billion) Czech scheme to support companies affected by the coronavirus outbreak. The scheme was approved under the State aid Temporary Framework.
Events:
17 – 20 May: European Parliament Plenary
17 – 18 May: Consilium meeting of culture ministers – adoption of the conclusions on the Media and AV Action Plan
21 May: Eurogroup meeting
21 – 22 May: ECOFIN Meeting
26 May: EU Copyright Law: State of Play and Future Directions – Conference
26 May: European Parliament conference on the reopening of culture
26 May: IMCO Committee
26 – 27 May: JURI Committee
27 May: CULT Committee – presentation of the MAAP draft report
2 June: SAA Expert Seminar on the Copyright directive, Article 18
4 June: Deadline for amendments on the MAAP report in the Culture committee
1 July: Joint IPKat-BLACA-IFIM live webinar on CJEU YouTube/Cyando judgment
VALLETTA: Cinemas across the Maltese islands are set to reopen on 7 June 2021, following a nearly four-month closure imposed earlier this year as part of a wider spate of restrictions aiming to get Coronavirus numbers under control.
PRAGUE: The 23rd One World Festival, which takes place online from 10 May to 6 June 2021, announced that it will also organise screenings in summer and drive-in cinemas from 20 to 28 May 2021.
FESTIVALS: Ceau, Cinema! Festival 2021 Announces Physical Edition Focusing on Romanian Films
Romania 18-05-2021TIMISOARA: The 8th Ceau, Cinema! Festival, which will take place in Timisoara in a limited edition from 15 to 18 July 2021, will focus entirely on Romanian films inviting their directors to meet the audience after open-air screenings.
TALLINN: Estonian Funeral / Eesti matus, the new comedy by popular director Rene Vilbre, will be domestically released on 4 June 2021, earlier than the previously set date of 20 August 2021. The reason is to attract the Estonian audience back to cinemas.
The Spheres City x Tangible Utopias,
the visionary VR franchise directed by Ioana Mischie,
Wins the prestigious Open Frame Award, at goEast Film Festival 2021
Open Frame Award empowers VR pioneers
The Spheres City, the first futuristic habitat of Tangible Utopias wins the Open Frame Award, at goEast Film Festival, becoming the first internationally awarded Romanian VR project, a milestone for the immersive entertainment field. The experience was displayed on Viveport during the online edition of the festival and was joined by a pitching session detailing the process behind.
BUCHAREST: Ivana Mladenovic’s sophomore feature Ivana the Terrible and Dorian Boguță’s debut feature Legacy received the most nominations (12 each) at the 15th edition of the Gopo Awards, which will be announced during a gala held in a physical format on 28 June 2021.
The grants for short animated films were announced by the Georgian National Film Center on 7 May 2021.
