PRODUCTION: Castel Film Wraps Production on Christopher Landry’s Debut Short Document 56
Romania 11-02-2022BUCHAREST: Christopher Landry’s Document 56 has wrapped production in Romania. The Romanian/USA feature short tells the strange-but-true story of a covert Cold War alliance between the American CIA and the Romanian Securitate (secret police) to finance the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
LOS ANGELES: Polish film The Dress by Tadeusz Łysiak was nominated for the Academy Awards in the Short Film (Live Action) category. Hungarian set decorator Zsuzsanna Sipos received a nomination in the Production design category, together with the Canadian production designer Patrice Vermette, for Dune by Denis Villeneuve. Polish DoPJanusz Kamiński got a nod for Best Cinematography in West Side Story.
WARSAW: The 6th edition of Kids Kino Industry will take place on 27–30 September 2022 in a hybrid format, both in person in Warsaw and online. The international co-production forum will be organised in the frames of the 9th edition of Kids Kino International Film Festival.
The 6th international co-production forum for the creators of films and series for young audiences, organised as part of the 9th Kids Kino International Film Festival, will take place on 27–30 September 2022 in Warsaw, Poland + online
BRUSSELS: Initial estimates of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) for 2021 show the return of audiences and recovery of cinemas across Europe, with an estimated 3.7 blillion EUR in BO, an increase of 42% compared to 2020.
CINEMA-GOING IN EUROPE IN 2021 - RECOVERING EUROPEAN CINEMAS SEE 42 PER CENT BOX OFFICE GROWTH IN 2021
Press releases 07-02-2022Brussels: 7 February 2022 - The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the body representing European cinema trade associations and operators, has today released preliminary 2021 box office and admissions estimates for the territories covered by the organisation.
FNE spoke with Alexander Gabelia, a Georgian film critic and cultural researcher, about the challenges and problems of Georgian film criticism, as well as the activities and tasks of the Georgian cinema platform CinExpress. Alexander is one of the editors and authors of CinExpress, an association of film researchers, that has recently published an electronic cinema magazine, already available to a mass audience free of charge, with the financial support of the GNFC.
WIESBADEN: The 22nd edition of the Festival of Central and Eastern European Film will take place in person from 19 to 25 April 2022 with film screenings, film talks and meetings with filmmakers, as well as a range of online programming.
BUCHAREST: Applications are now open for the 8th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency, with the deadline on 6 March 2022. The programme is planned to run in mid-September 2022 in Cultural Port Cetate, on the banks of the Danube.
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.
