TALLINN: Eurimages has given its first Co-Production Development Award to Motherland by writer/director Tomas Vengris and producer Uljana Kim from Lithuania.

PRAGUE: Just two years after relocating NATPE Europe to Prague, the TV market will be returning to Budapest in 2016.

BRATISLAVA: The fifth annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe (SIECE) conference, which takes place 20-21 November 2015 in the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, will feature two keynote lectures given by Chuck Tryon (USA) and Mikołaj Kunicki (Poland).

The debate on the future of Europe’s film and content industries will kick off tomorrow in Tallinn at the historic Theatre NO99 with the year’s last yet largest edition of the European Film Forum conferences. Titled #Digital Future of Film? the two-day conference programmed by the Black Nights Industry Office and supported by the European Commission, which has also backed 45 films in the festival’s program via its Creative Europe arm.

BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Juraj Nvota is in postproduction with Johanna’s Mystery, a 75-minute fairytale which will screen on public broadcasters Slovak TV and Czech TV on 24 and 25 December 2015.

PRAGUE: The fifth installment of the Underworld film franchise is filming in the Czech Republic until December 2015.

The deadline for submissions to ANIFILM, International Festival of Animated Films 2016, is approaching! Only two months leave to submit your films made after January 1st 2015 to following categories:  

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak film industry is seeing the results of governmental film investment initiatives, on both the domestic and the international landscape, while expanding distribution support.

WARSAW: Kino Polska TV, part of the media group SPI International is acquiring a 49 percent stake in Cable Television Network & Partners which is developing news channel Zoon TV.