BUCHAREST: Six films have been selected for the competition of the 12th Bucharest International Film Festival which will take place from 18 to 24 April 2016.

The Film New Europe Association is main networking platform of professionals in the Central and Eastern Europe and Baltic region. The FNE Association board is made up of the heads of the most important film institutions in the region.

The webportal Film New Europe (FNE) with its FNE Daily newswire was chosen as the main tool to achieve the network’s objectives: FNE is the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the voice of the region.  FNE is also a pan-European connection for the region and has partnerships and activities with the main pan-European film institutions based in Western Europe. 

Now FNE is introducing the first AV Innovation Team made up of Europe’s top specialists in Innovation to define what is cutting edge in the AV sector with a special emphasis on how innovation in the AV sector can provide the engine the EU’s smaller countries need to meet the challenges facing the industry today.  The FNE Innovation team is headed by Innovation specialist Peeter Nieler who will be curating a series of articles on these topics and heading a unique team of the leading young specialists in AV innovation throughout Europe for FNE.

SARAJEVO: Romanian project Otto the Barbarian by Ruxandra Maria Ghițescu is among the first six projects selected for the CineLink Co-Production Market and announced by the Sarajevo Film Festival. The second call for entries is open from 25 March to 26 April 2016.

BRATISLAVA: The fifth edition of the Visegrad Film Forum, which will be held at The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava from 5 to 9 April 2016, is organizing a special audience development and film literacy day.

HBO Europe is looking for bold and ambitious proposals for new documentary projects. Deadline for application is 1 June 2016.

FNE asked Yariv Lerner why Nu Boyana is getting involved in local Bulgarian productions after years of bringing Hollywood and European productions to Bulgaria.

JIHLAVA: Producers from the European Union, its Eastern neighbourhood and the Balkan region have a few days to finalise their submissions to the 5th edition of the Emerging Producers 2017 programme, as the deadline is 31 March 2016.

FNE asked Mira Staleva how bringing Europe’s most important film organisations together in Sofia was helping to create a better understanding of the challenges facing the film industry in Central and Eastern Europe.