Although Cyprus has a population of 1.13m and is only slightly smaller than Estonia and nearly triple the population of its Mediterranean neighbour Malta, the country is still developing as a producer of domestic films or as a destination for foreign film production.
Lukas Pribyl, director of the Forgotten Transports series of documentaries, is working on a portrait of Czech expatriate H.G. Skilling.
Polish actor Mateusz Kościukiewicz and Romanian actress Cosmina Stratan are among ten young Europeans selected as the European Film Promotion 2014 Shooting Stars.
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center is accepting applications for funding for film coproductions.
Out of 58 films running for the Golden Globes Foreign-Film Lineup, 10 are produced by EAVE producers:
The more than 2,900 members of the European Film Academy - filmmakers from across Europe - have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented:
Warsaw: The audiovisual summit “From MEDIA to CREATIVE EUROPE kicks off today 11 December at 9.55 CET in Warsaw and film professionals will be able to watch the event live online. FNE as one of the main partners of the event has prepared up to the minute industry country profiles on all the 13 countries in the region.
FNE will also be linking you to the live streaming of this important event. For the live streaming click HERE
The summit will open with keynote speeches by Polish director Agnieszka Holland who was recently appointed Chairwoman of the European Film Academy and Jan Truszczynski - Director General for Education, Training, Culture and Youth at the European Commission. Monika Smoleń – Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and Witold Graboś – Vice-President of the National Broadcasting Council of Poland will follow with their opening speeches.
The summit aims to share the experiences of the MEDIA Programme in New Europe countries. The conference aims for exchanging the experiences and views on the influence of MEDIA programme on the development of audiovisual markets in new Member States of the European Union. It will investigate the ways in which common experiences can help new Member States participate in the new CREATIVE EUROPE Programme.
The organizers of the audiovisual summit are aiming for the diagnosis of the condition of audiovisual markets,especially those located in Central and Eastern Europe, and to point the direction of their future development. Everyone who’s unable to participate in the conference is invited to watch it live at MEDIA Desk Poland website. English is the working language of the conference.
Warsaw: The audiovisual summit “From MEDIA to CREATIVE EUROPE started yesterday 11 December at 9.55 CET in Warsaw and film professionals are able to watch the event live online. FNE as one of the main partners of the event has prepared up to the minute industry country profiles on all the 13 countries in the region.
Viktoria, a debut feature film from Maya Vitkova, will be the first Bulgarian film screening in the World Competition of the Sundance film festival.
VALETTA: The government of Malta has increased the fee of age-classification to 100 EUR for a film from the former fee of 50 EUR.
