BRASOV, ROMANIA: HBO Europe began principal photography on the four-part hour long series Valea Mută / Valley of Silence on 10 May 2016, in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
TREBON, CZECH REPUBLIC: The Czech festival of animation Anifilm, which concluded on 8 May 2016, gave its best adult animated film award to Anomalisa by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman.
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ZAGREB: Hrvoje Hribar, director of the Croatian Audiovisual Center, introduced HAVC’s annual performance report and said that the recent period of continuity is responsible for the success of Croatia’s film industry.
VALLETTA: Malta will offer 150% tax deductions to companies that invest in local film production and training initiatives offered by the Malta Film Commission.
RIGA: The National Film Center of Latvia and the Riga Film Fund have increased their total cash rebate to 2.3 m EUR for 2017.
The Polish documentary Casa Blanca will be shown in Prague on 9 May 2016.
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Seven tutors have been announced for the first Ex Oriente 2016 workshop session.
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported an increase of 2.3 percent in net revenues in its first quarter of 2016 results, at 129 m USD. Operating income for the three months that ended on 31 March 2016 was 7.8 USD compared to an operating loss of 17.2 m USD for Q1 in 2015.
