LOS ANGELES: North Macedonia’s Honeyland by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov, Poland’s Corpus Christi by Jan Komasa and Czech student film Daughter by Daria Kashcheeva have received nominations for the 92nd Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards. It is the first time that a Macedonian film has received two Oscar nominations.
TRIESTE: Latvian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Czech, Slovenian, Polish and Croatian projects are among the 22 projects selected for Last Stop Trieste, This is IT and First Cut +, while a Serbian is among the 10 producers participating in the first edition of Cold Open at the 10th edition of When East Meets West. WEMW will be held from 19 to 21 January 2020 within the Trieste Film Festival (17-23 January 2020).
TRIESTE: Eleven feature films will vie in the main competition of the 31st Trieste Film Festival, which will be held from 17 to 23 January 2020.
WEMW unveils all juries and the final line up of LAST STOP TRIESTE, THIS IS IT, FIRST CUT + and COLD OPEN
Festivals 13-01-2020Trieste, January 13th, 2020 – The 10th edition of When East Meets West kicks off in less than one week, on January 19th, with an exciting double focus on Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary, Moldova, Romania. After having revealed the Co-Production Forum project selection, WEMW is now proud to announce that Marjorie Bendeck (CONNECTING COTTBUS), Tobias Pausinger (THE MATCH FACTORY) and Federico Pedroni (RAI CINEMA) will be the 2020 jury members and will decide the winners of all WEMW awards. Alongside the last details about the Co-Production Forum, WEMW is happy to finally unveil the complete line-up of the three side sections targeting films in post-production stage.
STUDENT FILM DAUGHTER TO COMPETE FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMY AWARD – THE OSCAR
Press releases 13-01-2020Prague/Los Angeles, 13th January 2020 – Just a few minutes ago the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations in all 24 competition categories, from which the winners will be announced on 9th February at the awards ceremony in the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The animated puppet drama Daughter by Daria Kashcheeva, student of the Department of Animated Film at FAMU, which was co-produced with MAUR film, was selected as one of the last five finalists in the Best Animated Short Film category. Daughter is thus the only Czech animated film that has in recent decades managed to compete for an Oscar.
PRAGUE: Acclaimed Czech director and screenwriter Ivan Passer has passed away at age 86. A leading figure of the Czech New Wave, he escaped from what was then Czechoslovakia to the USA together with his colleague and friend Milos Forman in 1969.
Dimitri Logothetis Preps New Action Film To Shoot in Cyprus Under Cash Rebate Scheme
Cyprus 13-01-2020NICOSIA: The Greek-American producer/director Dimitri Logothetis is in preparation with Man of War, for which he is in talks with a major action actor. The project is set to be the second film by Logothetis to benefit from the Cyprus incentives scheme. The director shot the sci-fi film Jiu-Jitsu starring Nicholas Cage in Cyprus in 2019.
PRAGUE: Filmmakers are welcome to apply to dok.incubator, the international workshop supporting directors, producers and editors with their late-stage documentary projects. The deadline for applications is 29 January 2020.
Here are the projects selected for the 9th edition of East Doc Platform, the largest coproduction, funding and distribution market for Central and Eastern European documentaries, which will take place in Prague from 7 to 13 March 2020.
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