The Way Out Tops Nominations for Czech Critics’ Awards
PRAGUE: Fourteen films are competing in eight categories at the 5th edition of the CzechCritics´ Awards organized by the Czech Critics Association.
FNE Country Profile: Czech Republic
The State Cinematography Fund, Czech Republic has been the main tool for public support of cinematography in the Czech Republic since 1992. In 2013 it adopted a new Cinematography Act…
FESTIVALS: Hong Kong Targets Czech Filmmakers at 10th Filmasia
PRAGUE: Making her first trip to Prague, Betty S. P. Ho, director of the Berlin based CEE headquarters for the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, used the 10th anniversary…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DRIFTER won IDFA First Appearance Competition!
Drifter has been developed by DOK.Incubator workshop and presented at East Doc Platform 2012.
PRODUCTION: Tallinn and Thessaloniki Winner Kids from the East
TALLINN: Czech producer Michal Kracmer might need to stop pitching his new project Kids from the East for the time being. He has already won two accreditations to the Cannes…
GRANTS: The Czech State Cinematography Fund Announces Final Grants for 2014
PRAGUE: The Czech State Cinematography Fund announced that it will support three films from the 31 features requesting support and the 14 projects which were declared eligible.
Taskovski Films Picks up Sugar Blues
PRAGUE: London film sales company Taskovski Films has picked up the Czech documentary Sugar Blues directed by Andrea Culkova.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Three DOK.Incubator films nominated at IDFA 2014
The nominations for the best films in IDFA’s competition programs have just been announced.
Dates Set for Czech Lions
PRAGUE: The nominations for the 22nd annual Czech Lion awards will be announced on 14 January 2015.
France Fetes Czech Success Story
PRAGUE: Slovak/Czech/Hungarian distributor Ivan Hronec of Film Europe and Unifrance’s CEE guru Joel Chapron kicked off the 17th edition of the expanded Festival of French Films in Prague with a…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: East Doc Deadline
Applications for East Doc Platform close on 1 December 2014.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator
The specific format of a unique rough-cut workshop brings surprising results: half of the DOK.Incubator films premiere at the big autumn festivals.
MIDPOINT Project Wins Greek Pitching Prize
PRAGUE: Kids from the East by director Aramisova and producer Michal Kráčmer of cinédix won a postproduction prize and accreditation to the 2015 Producers Network in Cannes at the Crossroads…
FNE IDF DocBloc: CEE Docs Online
Selected films from the Silver Eye market are available for online viewing.
Czech Sirena Film Coproducing Danish drama Tordenskiold
PRAGUE: Shooting of Danish feature Tordenskiold, which started on Czech locations 13 October 2014, is scheduled to wrap 18 November.
CME Announces Continued Revenue Growth
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported another quarter of rising revenues, with 2014 quarter three net revenues up 7 percent over 2013, at 140m USD.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator
CEE documentary filmmakers screen their films at Leipzig's DOK.Incubator before their releases.
French Period Drama Marguerite Shooting in Prague
PRAGUE: The Czech Republic stands in for Paris in Marguerite, a French period film set in the 1920‘s. The drama about a tone deaf opera singer is directed by Xavier…
FESTIVALS: France Takes Top Prize at Jihlava IDFF
JIHLAVA: French documentary director Anna Roussillon won the Opus Bonum competition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival for I Am the People (Je Suis le Peuple).
