In 2018 A Sunday in the Country in Wrocław will take place during the 18th New Horizons IFF from July 29 till August 1st.
A collaboration of Wrocław's New Horizons IFF and the European Film Academy (EFA), the 7th edition of 'A Sunday in the Country' gathers ten young film critics from Europe for a retreat/workshop in the first weekend of the festival. The participants meet for 3 days in a remote country house near Wrocław (Zagórze Śląskie on Bystrzyckie Lake) where they get to know each other, watch films and discuss them, meet special guests (filmmakers brought by the New Horizons) and talk about issues such as: What's the responsibility, if there is one, of a critic towards (national) film productions? And towards the reader? What is the reality for film critics in different countries? They exchange their professional experiences and build international relations.
For the 7th edition of the exceptional retreat-get-together 10 participants have been selected from 9 different countries:
Austria (Britta Rotsch), Denmark (Maria Bjerregaard), France (Yael Hirsch), Germany (Stefanie Borowsky), Hungary (Andras Huszar), the Netherlands (Alexander Zwart), Romania (Irina Trocan) and Italy (Matteo Berardini) and including 2 Poles, winners of the Krzysztof Mętrak Contest for young film critics: Kornelia Sobczak i Diana Dąbrowska.
They participants will work and network under the guidance of the established critic from Sweden, Hynek Pallas, as well as co-ordinators of the New Horizons Association and EFA. They will meet established filmmakers-guests of the New Horizons FF, directors of the competition movies: Isabella Eklöf (Holiday), Valérie Massadian (Milla), Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek (My Friend the Polish Girl), and Damian Nenow, co-creator of animated movie Another Day of Life.
The event is supported by the Polish Film Institute, Austrian Cultural Forum, Danish Cultural Center, the Embassy of the Netherlands, Italian Cultural Institute, Hungarian Cultural Center, Institut Francais, Romanian Institute of Culture, Polish Cultural Institute in Berlin, Kulturbrauerei e.V. and organized in collaboration with Krzysztof Mętrak Award for young critics.
EU Copyright Directive
19/07: Authors urge MEPs to find a common line and adopt the Copyright Directive without further delay - FERA
The Authors’ Group mentions that ‘throwing the Directive away by postponing its adoption would be a failure to deliver any concrete improvement to the situation of European authors and be an appalling missed opportunity to strengthen the creative community and Europe’s cultural wealth in the digital era.’
Cult Committee
17/07: Draft CULT Report on the New European Agenda for Culture - European Parliament website
The rapporteur stresses, among other things, the need to protect creators in the digital landscape and to this end welcomes the proposal for the Copyright Directive. He calls on the European Commission and Member States to ensure that digital platforms that play an active role in distributing, promoting and monetising copyright protected content have a clear obligation to obtain licenses from right holders and to fairly remunerate artists, authors, news publishers, producers, journalists and creators for the digital use of their work.
Video Sharing Platforms
12/07: Video Sharing Platforms – who’s making the rules and how do they apply? – European Audiovisual Observatory
How does European legislation sheriff the wild wild west of content sharing platforms such as YouTube? And what of Facebook? How does European law define their role and responsibilities? High time for the European Audiovisual Observatory’s new report: The legal framework for video-sharing platforms.
Event:
12 September: European Parliament Plenary Vote - EU Copyright Directive
24-27 September: FNCF Congress 2018 - Deauville
26 & 27 September: EUIPO Plenary Meeting 2018 - Alicante
15 & 16 October: UNIC Cinema Days - Brussels
PULA: Mali, directed by Antonio Nuić, was awarded Grand Golden Arena for best festival film at the 65th Pula Film Festival, which wrapped on 22 July 2018.
PALIĆ: Girl, directed by the Belgium Lukas Dhont, was awarded the Golden Tower for Best Film in the Official Competition of the Jubilee 25th European Film Festival Palić (14-20 July 2018).
Projects of animated shorts and TV special episodes made with the use of puppet technique can take part in the pitching organized for the second time during ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. The deadline for submissions is July 31st.
FNE IDF DocBloc: The System Is Working. Now We Need to Go Beyond Its Borders
Czech Republic 20-07-2018Czech film producer and director Radim Procházka sat down with the Institute of Documentary Film to speak about the current state of Czech documentary film from the perspective of a film producer.
PRAGUE: Czech comedy/drama Smiles of Sad Men / Úsmevy smutných muzu by Dan Svátek opened on 12 July and went directly to number 3 in the local box office.
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian Film Centre distributed 781,153 EUR at its second grants session for 2018. There are six minority coproductions, directed by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, Jivan Avetisyan, Dāvis Sīmanis, Davit Abramishvili, Edouard Montoute and Elina Panik, among the projects receiving grants.
BUDAPEST: Hungary will raise its production incentives from 25% to 30%. The submission of the Hungarian Film Fund approved by the European Commission aims at preserving its competitiveness in Europe.
The following production grants were announced by the Lithuanian Film Centre on 17 July 2018.
