COTTBUS: Central Europe’s leading pitching forum, Connecting Cottbus, is accepting applications for the 2013 East- West coproduction market until 15 July 2013.
PRAGUE: Alena Hanakova has resigned her position as Minister of Culture and will leave the in July.
(MEDIAS) German producer Regina Ziegler is the guest of honor at the 3rd Mediaş Central European Film Festival (MECEFF) taking place 24-28 June 2013.
BUDAPEST: Hungary’s film fund is handing out an additional four grants to the six grants recently announced.
VILNIUS: Lithuanian production company Fralita Films is in preproduction with the feature film Sangaile directed by Alante Kavaite.
KOSICE: A wealth of new TV programmes will compete for the Golden Beggar awards during the 19th International Festival of Local Televisions, held in the Slovak city of Kosice, 11-15 June 2013. With Kosice celebrating being named 2013 European Capital of Culture, this edition promises to be an especially rich event.
Press release of CINEASTES EUROPENS: A delegation of European filmmakers, composed of Lucas Belvaux, Costa Gavras, Daniele Luchetti, Dariusz Jablonski, Radu Mihaileanu, Cristian Mungiu and accompanied by the actress Bérénice Béjo, met with European Commission President José-Manuel Barroso on Tuesday, June 11th in Strasbourg. They told him again the necessity to exclude audiovisual and cinematographic services from the negotiation mandate for the trade agreement between the United States and Europe.
BRATISLAVA: Step Into Darkness a Trigon Production film directed by Miloslav Luther, and Seven Ravens , a fairytale based on the Brothers Grimm story and produced by Attack Studio, received the largest grants (380,000 EUR) in the latest round of funding by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
BUDAPEST: Three films received production support in the latest round of Hungarian grants funding.
PRAGUE: Jarmila Outratová has been appointed to head the Industry Office of the Jihlava IDFF.
