DUBROVNIK: FreemantleMedia Croatia and Jadran Film will develop and produce a TV series based on the bestseller The Witch of Gric by Marija Juric Zagorka, one of the most popular Croatian writers.

ŽILINA: The 8th Fest Anča International Animation Festival is ready to start with several competitions for short films from 24 to 28 June 2015.

LIEGE: The 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM), an international co-production and financing market for projects for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) contents, is open for applications through 28 September 2015, for the market taking place on 14-15 Dec 2015 in Liège, Belgium.

JIHLAVA: WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange will be a guest of 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival from 27 October to 1 November 2015. He will attend through a video conference as one of the speakers at the 5th edition of the Inspiration Forum.

TEPLICE: Eleven features are competing for the Blue Angel at the 23rd edition of the most prestigious film event in Slovakia, Art Film Fest which will take place at Trenčianske Teplice and Teplice from 19 to 26 June 2015.

Krakow, June 8, 2015 - The prizes of the 55th Krakow Film Festival were awarded during the Award Ceremony on June 6, 2015.

If you are planning to visit the 50th Karlovy Vary IFF, please note that Industry Accreditation requests close on June 8, 2015.

El incendio / The Fire, from Argentina, directed by Juan Schnitman, is the winner of the Transilvania Trophy. The winners of the 14th edition of Transilvania IFF were announced on Saturday evening, at the National Theatre in Cluj, during the Closing Gala of the festival. The main award, in amount of 15.000 Euro, was handed out on stage by actress Nastassja Kinski, Dennis Lim - member of the Jury - and the Minister of Culture, Ionuț Vulpescu. The jury praised the film for "for its vitality, ambition and sense of risk in dealing with a complex subject".

In its capacity of the main strategic agency for the audiovisual sector in Croatia, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre held on Tuesday, 2 June an open meeting of its Croatian Audiovisual Council, which comprises of the main stakeholders in the Croatian audiovisual sector (professional associations, both public and commercial broadcasters, distributors, exhibitors, telecoms), together with representatives from Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, State Institute for Intellectual Property, Croatian Performers’ Rights Collecting Society (HUZIP) and Croatian Composers’ Association’s Copyright Protection Office (HDS ZAMP).

Pula Film Festival announced the Croatian and International Programme of 62nd Pula Film Festival at a press conference held on Wednesday, June 10th, at the French Institute in Zagreb. HE. Michèle Boccoz greeted all the guests and reporters on behalf of the French Embassy in Croatia.