In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European cinema operators, FNE together with Europa Cinemas continues its Cinema of the Month series. This month we spoke with Genė Pučinskienė, the manager of Cinema Center Garsas/Kino Center Garsas since 1992.
WARSAW: Poland’s TVN Group has named Christian Anting as Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director of international distribution.
VALLETTA: Engelbert Grech has been appointed by the Malta Minister for Home Affairs Manuel Mallia as the new Film Commissioner for Malta. He will replace Peter Busutill at the head of Malta Film Commission.
BUDAPEST: Sony Classics Pictures has picked up Janos Szasz’s Hungarian Oscar hopeful The Notebook.
BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Film Institute has launched a major new webportal of Slovak film to celebrate its 50th anniversary. SK Cinema is accessible at www.skcinema.sk and is presently only in Slovak but will be available also in English in the first half of 2014.
WARSAW: Poland’s biggest cinema operator Cinema City International has been taken over by the UK’s Cineworld in a deal worth 600m EUR.
'Happily Ever After', a documentary film directed by Tatjana Božić, was selected for the competition of the prestigious International Rotterdam Film Festival, whose 43rd edition takes place 22 January thru 2 February 2014.
With 158 applications coming from 47 different countries, we are delighted to close the year announcing the participants for the EAVE 2014 European Producers Workshop: 51 promising producers from 28 countries have finally been selected for 2014.
The European Film Academy Young Audience Award, first introduced in 2012 on occasion of the 25th European Film Awards, will again be presented this year in the framework of a Young Audience Film Day on Sunday, 4 May.