A packed room of industry pros showed up to scout more than 20 upcoming films, out of 60 Czech films in various stages of production, selected for the annual presentation of New Czech Animated and Feature Films at Plzen's Finale (www.filmfestfinale.cz) festival.

Prague 16-23 April 2009 / Brno 25-30 April 2009 / Olomouc 27-30 April 2009

Discovery Networks EMEA, which oversees Discovery's European operations, will launch its Investigation Discovery (ID) channel in Romania, Hungary, and Poland, beginning in April.

Directed by Estonia's filmmaking virtuoso Jaak Kilmi and produced by scriptwriter-producer Kiur Aarma, this is a playful film about growing up in the Soviet Union; about the Cold War and hot desires. The film premieres at Tallinn's cinema Sõprus on April 9th

AW is a documentary film workshop at its forth edition, open to creative documentary filmmakers, DPs, editors and producers from Central and Eastern Europe.

EDN, European Documentary Network, is once again honouring an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture with The EDN Award. This year the award is presented to Nenad Puhovski and ZagrebDox.

Following the success of last year's Europe@Home photography competition, the European People's Party Group in the Committee of the Regions has joined together with the Party to challenge young people to shoot a 1-minute film on the topic of creating a better environment. We believe that climate change is one of the biggest challenges that Europe is facing and if we want to make a difference, change should begin at home. The top three film-makers will win a share of €1750 and a trip to Brussels to see their films screened in the European Parliament in October.

Can you capture the spirit of Europe in just 1-minute? If so, we'd like to hear from you. The closing date is 15 June so visit our websites for more details!

For more information, please contact:

Kathryn Owens Gemma Slaymaker

EPP Group in the CoR European People's Party

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After gatherings in New York, Toronto, Washington, Montreal and London, Sunny Side of the Doc held its 6th co-production Rendezvous in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 11 to 14, 2009.

After gatherings in New York, Toronto, Washington, Montreal and London, Sunny Side of the Doc held its 6th co-production Rendezvous in Sofia, Bulgaria, March 11 to 14, 2009.

AJ Annila's film Sauna has been awarded the main prize - The Golden Tooth - of Riga Fantasy Film Festival in Latvia (February 27 - March 8, 2009).