TALLINN: Application for the 4th edition of Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST), the producers' workshop set up in cooperation with EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) and with the support from Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, is now open for 12 participants.

VALLETTA: Steve Quale’s The Lake, the new project produced by Luc Besson through EuropaCorp will be shot in Malta from July to September 2015 with Falkun Films providing with services.

This year for the third time FNE together with FIPRESCI will offer the ratings of all films in the main competition and the East of the West competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.

WARSAW: Searching for Hell, directed by Pawel Nazaruk &Tomasz Adamski, Darek Barecki, Yuki Nakamura, Gloria Kurnik and James Kenney has become the first long documentary film screened and distributed in Virtual Reality Cinema. 

KARLOVY VARY: The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) will honour the American actor Richard Gere with  the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.

PRAGUE: Eurimages announces support for 31 coproductions including ten coproductions involving CEE countries. A total amount of 7,745,000 EUR goes to 27 features, three documentaries and one animation film.

VILNIUS: Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris launched a programme allowing festival films to be screeneed throughout the year.

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.

ZAGREB: 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.