Some of the highlights of this year´s open program include Paweł Łoziński's masterclass on Experiment in Documentary, a lecture by Helle Faber My insight into documentary co-productions or Joe Bini´s masterclass Personal remarks on documentary filmmaking through the eyes of an editor.
ZAGREB: Dalibor Matanić is in Spain this week, where he will introduce his film The High Sun, that will be released in Madrid by Surtsey Films.
LONDON: Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has 12 features looking to be completed by the end of 2017. The London-based production house announced that How To Sell a War by Rudolph Herzog is to begin shooting in Georgia in the late spring/early summer 2017.
Submission deadline for the 14th East Silver Market Jihlava is 30 June 2017.
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) boosts 2016/2017 Production Slate to 12 features looking to complete by the end of 2017
Press releases 23-02-2017London-based production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) has consolidated its position as one of the key players on the European independent production scene, expanding its 2016/2017 active production slate to 12 pictures including debuts from such major international talents as German documentarist and author Rudolph Herzog, Gomorrah scribe Maurizio Braucci and writer of the Academy Award winning feature IDA, Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
DUBROVNIK: The mayor of Dubrovnik Andro Vlahusic has said that the negotiations to shoot the 25th film in the James Bond franchise in the Croatian town are in an advanced stage, according to reports in local media.
BUCHAREST: Sixteen projects, including ones from Macedonia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Poland, have been selected for the first edition of Less Is More. Romania's Asociatia Culturala Control N and Transilvania IFF and Poland's Krakow Festival Office are the CEE partners of this European script development platform.
Does a limited budget necessarily put a brake on filmmakers’ creativity? Or does it push the power of their storytelling towards something new, something edgy and completely different than all their previous work? A limited budget can represent the needed push for the writer’s mind and lead him to amazing stories, scripts and films.
LOS ANGELES: House of Others by Georgian director Rusudan Glurjidze received the Satellite Award for Best First Feature from the International Press Academy on 18 February 2017.
ZAGREB: Antun Vrdoljak’s anticipated The General, starring Goran Višnjić as the hero of the Croatian War of Independence Ante Gotovina, started shooting in Croatia on 20 February 2017. The project includes a feature film and also an eight-episodes series.
