Storytek, a new content and media tech incubator launches in Tallinn, Estonia with a purpose to help content creators, producers and early stage digital media startups and entrepreneurs to fast-track their product and services to the global markets as well as help them to access new forms of mentoring and financing from venture capital and the tech community. Enterprise Estonia, the business development and export support platform of Estonian government has funded Storytek through its Creative Incubators support program.

TALLINN: Black Nights Film Festival and its industry platform Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event are backing the launch of Storytek, a new content and media tech incubator that held a pilot event during the 2016 festival.

CANNES: The Slovenian Film Center announced the start of shooting of the first film to take advantage of the new cash rebate scheme, Intrigo -  Death of An Author directed by Daniel Alfredson.

SKOPJE: The first regional Balkan VOD platform of films from southeastern Europe, Cinesquare.net launched on Monday, 22 May 2017.

WARSAW: Fourteen films will compete in the two main competition sections of the 5th Cinema in Sneakers Festival for Children and Youth, running 31 May – 11 June 2017.

PRAGUE: The Institute of Documentary Film has announced the names of the 12 documentary projects selected for the 15th edition of the Ex Oriente Film workshop, an international training programme focused on development and funding of creative documentary films.

In cooperation with the Slovenian Tourist Board and the Ministry of Culture, today, on 22 May, the Slovenian Film Centre presented the measure introducing the right to cash rebate to the global film community at the European Film Market in Cannes.

CANNES: The European Film Agency Directors, EFADs, has issued a statement calling on the European Commission, Parliament and Council to promote and preserve cultural diversity and territoriality.