PRAGUE: Ten documentaries have been selected to participate in the 10th edition of East Doc Platform, the coproduction, funding and distribution market for documentary filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe, organised by the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF). Another ten films are in the East Doc Market, and five projects are participating in East Doc Interactive. The programme will take place in an extended online format from 6 to 17 March 2021.
PRAGUE: CEE Animation Forum is accepting applications for its 2021 regional pitching, financing and coproduction market through 17 January 2021.
This week True Story, a collaborative project between the Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, speaks to Polish documentary maker Tomasz Wolski about his documentary An Ordinary Country.
This week True Story, a collaborative project between the Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, speaks to Romanian documentary maker Radu Ciorniciuc, who speaks about his observational documentary Acasa, My Home.
Alexander Nanau’s critically acclaimed homage to the powers of investigative journalism wins top EFA prize
Berlin, December 12, 2020 – COLLECTIVE by Romanian-German filmmaker Alexander Nanau has won the top documentary award at this year’s EFA.
COLLECTIVE chronicles a team of fearless journalists as they expose political corruption in the highest ranks in Romania that led to the loss of many innocent lives after a nightclub fire in Bucharest in 2015.
#LubinaLove in a cube: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy wins the main prize at the FilmFestival Cottbus for the third time
Festivals 13-12-2020Ivan I. Tverdovskiy wins the main prize for the best film in the Feature Film Competition of the 30th FilmFestival Cottbus. This is the third time the Russian director has been awarded the 25,000 EUR prize at the FFC, following CORRECTIONS CLASS (2014) and ZOOLOGY (2016). The Special Award for Best Director goes to Piotr Domalewski for I NEVER CRY. Acting debuts Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković and Valentino Zenuni from Ivan Ikić's OASIS are honoured with the prize for an outstanding individual performance.
At the anniversary edition, not only the winners from the Feature Film Competition will be given the LUBINA, but also the winners from the Short Film and U18 Youth Film competitions.
Altogether, prizes worth EUR 72,000 in total will be awarded at the 30th FFC, whose programme of 150 films can be viewed online and streamed nationwide until December 31, 2020.
European Film Promotion (EFP) welcomes the non-profit association Romanian Film Development (ADFR - Ascociatia de Dezvoltare A Filmului Romanesc) as its 38th member organisation and successor to Romanian Film Promotion.
The Diary of Diana B. included in Eurimages’ publication “The Gold Album – Female Directors”
Press releases 15-12-2020The director of The Diary of Diana B., Dana Budisavljević, finds herself in select company of only 50 female directors included in the first edition of the publication “The Gold Album – Female Directors,” published by the Council of Europe’s cultural support fund Eurimages. In addition to The Diary of Diana B., the publication also includes Croatian minority co-production God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, by Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska.
Fiction feature Mayday, shot in Croatia, to premiere at Sundance Film Festival
Press releases 18-12-2020Early next year, Karen Cinorre’s debut fiction feature Mayday, will have its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival (screening in the U.S. Dramatic Competition). Last year, the film was shot entirely in Croatia, with production house Antitalent acting as service producer. Sundance Film Festival is held online, 28th Jan – 3rd Feb, 2021.
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