The 4th Visegrad Film Forum (11th – 14th March 2015) in Bratislava will host Christopher Newman, a renowned Hollywood sound mixer. The three time Academy Award Winner will give a lecture on sound in film. Students of film schools and film enthusiasts are encouraged to sign up at www.visegradfilmforum.com. The deadline for application is March 7th, 2015.

Europa Distribution is launching a new partnership with the Marrakech International Film Festival and is hosting a distribution workshop in the scope of the 14th edition of the festival. Independent distributors members of the network and coming from various countries, as well as local Moroccan distributors, will participate in this workshop on “Effective Communication in Professional Interactions and in the Negotiation Process”.

Having exciting filmographies with international co-productions, 30 players of the European film industry coming have been selected among the EAVE network to represent and promote EAVE in their respective countries.

“The Summer of Sangaile” by the Lithuanian director Alantė Kavaitė – together with another 11 films – was selected for the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition where it will have its world premiere and will be screened as the day one film. 

Drifter has been developed by DOK.Incubator workshop and presented at East Doc Platform 2012.

The closing ceremony of the 27th IDFA in Amsterdam’s Compagnietheate have just finished. From the three DOK.Incubator nominations, Drifter reached the AWARD at the First Appearance Competition…

VALLETTA: Rebecca Cremona, the director of Malta’s Oscar candidate Simshar, has signed with Beverly Hills company Management 360

ZAGREB: The Board of Governors of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) have re-appointed Croatian filmmaker Hrvoje Hribar as Chief Executive of the Centre for a second four-year term.

RIGA: Latvia has become the 35th member of European Film Promotion (EFP), joining Baltic State neighbors Estonia and Lithuania, which were previously represented in tandem with Latvia through the umbrella organization Baltic Films.