NICOSIA: The comedy Smuggling Hendrix by Marios Piperides is available on in-flight entertainment of Emirates. Since its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, this coproduction between Cyprus, Germany and Greece was selected for more than 25 festivals and received several awards.
EU Copyright Directive
13/01: Working Paper: Working Party on Intellectual Property (Copyright) – Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU
The working paper included compromise suggestion on Article 13 and proposal for a new Article on exclusion of software developers.
11/01: Q & A on the draft digital copyright directive – European Parliament
This Q and A provides answers to some of the issues regularly raised regarding the European Parliament’s position during the ongoing process to hammer out the digital copyright directive.
EU Broadcasting Directive
17/01: Analysis of the final compromise text with a view to agreement – Council of the EU & Council of the EU
Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL laying down rules on the exercise of copyright and related rights applicable to certain online transmissions of broadcasting and retransmission of television and radio programmes.
European Audiovisual Observatory
18/01: Independent producers’ coordinator takes over European Audiovisual Observatory’s Advisory Committee Chair – EAO
The Advisory Committee of the European Audiovisual Observatory has a new Chair. Elena Lai, Secretary General of the European Coordination of Independent TV Producers (CEPI), has been elected to head up the Observatory’s Advisory Committee.
16/01: Italy takes over the Presidency of the European Audiovisual Observatory for 2019 - EAO
The Strasbourg-based Observatory, part of the Council of Europe, has been providing facts and figures on the film, television and video industries in Europe since 1992. Each January a different Observatory member country takes over the yearly rotating Presidency. In 2019 Italy took over the the Presidency from France.
EU Film Contest
17/01: Launch of the 3rd edition of the EU Film Contest – Creative Europe MEDIA
Love European Films? Test your knowledge and join the competition! There are 10 trips to the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 to win, travel and hotel included. This will be your chance to get a glimpse into the European audiovisual sector and meet film professionals.
Presidency of the Council of the EU
18/01: MEPs voice concern over Romanian EU Council presidency – The Parliament Magazine
Romania assumed the EU Council presidency on 1 January, the first time it has been at the helm of the EU since it joined the bloc in 2007.But its government has repeatedly faced criticism from MEPs and others about the rule of law, a crackdown on civil society and alleged civil rights abuses in the country.
Events
11 February: European Film Forum @ The Berlinale
14 February: EUIPO conference - IP in Education
20 February: European Parliament vote on Future of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme
8-12 April: EUIPO Working Group meetings
Recent Studies
EAO - Brexit: The impact on the audiovisual sector - December 2018
EAO - YouTube and Facebook together net over 50% of the online video advertising market - December 2018
TRIESTE: Bujar Alimani’s The Delegation received the Trieste Award for Best Feature Film at the 30th Trieste Film Festival (18-25 January 2019). The film is a coproduction between Albania, France, Greece and Kosovo.
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry professionals across Europe. Click here for FNE UNIC EU Cinema Policy Update.
TRIESTE: The Czech project Brotherhood directed by Francesco Montagner and produced by Nutprodukce is the winner of the 9th edition of When East Meets West, the Italian coproduction forum, which took place 20-22 January 2019 within the Trieste Film Festival.
PRAGUE: Three documentaries developed at the dok.incubator workshop have been selected for the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival 2019. Nine films made it to Sundance in the last seven years of the workshop.
Upcoming DocPoint Helsinki (28 January – 3 February 2019) included Helena Třeštíková's retrospective and Jan Gebert's When the War Comes in its programme, while DocPoint Tallin (30 January - 3 February 2019) will screen Šimon Šafránek's King Skate. Martin Páv's Vote for Kibera was selected for FIPADOC Biarritz (22-27 January 2019).
3 films developed in dok.incubator workshop are competing at Sundance Film Festival! In the last 7 years of the workshop, 9 films have been selected for Sundance. The call for our applications deadline is on the 30th of January.
World Cinema Documentary Competition
In an intimate portrait “The Disappearance of My Mother” by debuting Beniamo Barrese (IT) we witness a once-iconic fashion model striving to escape the world of images and disappear for good. But her son's determination to make a final film about her sparks a confrontation with the camera's gaze.
Another debut, “Lapü”, directed by César Alejandro Jaimes & Juan Pablo Polanco (CO) takes us on a sensory journey through the desert of La Guajira in Columbia where a young Wayuu woman exhumes her cousin's remains in order to meet her for the last time.
With remarkably intimate access Petra Costa’s “The Edge of Democracy” (BR) follows Brazil’s embattled leaders Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva as they grapple with a scandal born out of their country’s fascist past and inflamed by a furious and ideologically divided nation.
Applications for the 2019 workshop are open now!
DEADLINE: 30th January
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or meet doc.incunator at Berlinale 8th - 12th of February.
WARSAW: Cold War has been nominated for the Cesar Awards 2019 in the Best Foreign Film category. The prizes are awarded by France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences. The gala will take place on 22 February 2019.
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.
