TRIESTE: Representatives of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund and the Slovenian Film Centre announced the recipients of the 4th RE–ACT co-development funding support during the When East Meets West Co-production Forum in Trieste. Six projects were awarded 10,000 EUR each.
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian-American film producer Andy Vajna has died at 74 after a long illness, according to the Hungarian National Film Fund
BERLIN: Several films from CEE countries have been selected for various sections of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival, including the Competition. The festival runs from 7 to 17 February 2019.
Slovakia will be one of the countries in spotlight of industry platform When East Meets West (January, 20 - 22, 2019). A numerous delegation of Slovak film professionals will be representing the country at the event that is running paralely to 30th Trieste Film Festival(January 18 – 25, 2019). At the same time, the festival will introduce five Slovak films in various sections.
The 9th edition of WEMW will draw attention to the region of Central Eastern Europe,notably Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Ukraine, as well as Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands for the Benelux region. The aim of this regional East&West double focus is to offer the countries in spotlight a special room for the presentation of their audiovisual landscape, with the aim to strengthen collaboration between them. One of the case studies for an already existing and successful collaboration between the countries in focus will be Slovak-Ukrainian film The Line by director Peter Bebjak.
Furthermore, Slovak producer and directorPeter Kerekes will be jury member of theco-production forum. Among the 22 selected projects of this year´s edition is also feature debut by Michal BlaškoVictim. Last Stop Trieste, a work in progress section for projects in fine cut stage, will screen Polish-Slovak documentary Wind (d. Michał Bielawski, co-prod. Peter Kerekes) to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors.
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BUCHAREST: One 100% Romanian coproduction and three minority coproductions from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Czech Republic were selected for the 49th Forum section of the 69th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2019).
PODGORICA: The Film Centre of Montenegro has raised cash rebates for international productions shooting in Montenegro from 20 to 25% on qualifying expenditure.
VILNIUS: The market share of domestic films increased in Lithuania to 28%, compared to 22% in 2017, while two domestic titles topped the box office in 2018
EUROPEAN AUTHORS NEED A PRINCIPLE OF PROPORTIONATE REMUNERATION TO BE ENSHRINED IN THE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE (ARTICLE -14)
Press releases 17-01-2019As the trilogue negotiations on the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market are drawing to a conclusion, now is your last opportunity to effectively ensure European authors benefit from the economic success of their works.
STRASBOURG: Close to 100 European directors, producers and screenwriters demand ‘proportionate’ remuneration in the EU copyright directive in an open letter released on 17 January 2019.
The Budapest International Documentary Festival will show East Silver Caravan titles and Silver Eye nominees in its competition from 28 January to 3 February 2019. The theme of its 5th edition is Naked truth on the film screen.
