Eights Wins Prix Europa
BRNO: Czech TV’s Brno studio walked away with the Best European TV Drama prize at the Prix Europa 2014 awards in Berlin on 24 October for the absurdist black comedy…
CME to Announce Third Quarter Results
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises, which is facing a continuing decline in its stock price, will unveil its third quarter results on 30 October 2014.
Five Czech Docs from Jihlava Get Distribution
PRAGUE: Five Czech documentaries will be distributed in Czech cinemas following screenings at the Jihlava International Documentary Festival.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: IDF and EAVE Announce Partnership
EAVE and IDF have teamed up to offer a new scholarship for one producer participating in Ex Oriente Film 2014 to attend the EAVE 2015 Producers Workshop. The scholarship will…
FNE at Jihlava IDFF 2014: Jihlava Announces Programme Lineup
JIHLAVA: A total of 57 world, international and European premieres will screen in the competition sections of the 18th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival from 23 to 28 October 2014.
Obituary: Czech actor and playwright Pavel Landovsky
PRAGUE: Czech actor, playwright, and anti-Communist dissident Pavel Landovsky (78) died on 10 October 2014.
FNE Doc Bloc: Ex Oriente Holds Second Session in Jihlava
The documentary development workshop Ex Oriente is gearing up for its next session taking place 22-28 October 2014 in Jihlava.
RODUCTION: Nikolaev´s Dodgeball Wraps Shooting
PRAGUE: Shooting of the new film by Petr Nikolaev Dodgeball was competed at the end of September.
DAFilms.com Offers First World Film Retrospective of Helena Třeštíková Online
PRAGUE: DAFilms.com documentary portal is presenting the first world online retrospective of the famous Czech director Helena Třeštíková under the title A Long Journey through 5 October 5 2014.
Hollywood Stars Shooting in Czech Locations
PRAGUE: Hollywood stars, Orlando Bloom and two-time Oscar winner Michael Douglas, will move to the Czech Republic for seven weeks to shoot high budget action thriller Unlocked directed by Michael…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Docs 2014-2015 Event
The Institute of Documentary film and the Czech Film Center present the joint event Czech Docs 2014-2015 which opens 29 September 2014.
FNE Doc Bloc: Jihlava Inspiration Forum
September 15 2014 is the deadline to register of Inspiration Forum at the Jihlava IDFF.
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Ivan Hronec, Czech Republic
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
OBITUARY: Oscar Winner Karel Cerny
PRAGUE: Czech production designer and art director Karel Cerny, who won an Oscar in 1985 for Amadeus, died 5 September 2014 at age 92.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Interview with Yuri Rechinsky
The Institute of Documentary Film speaks with Czech director Yuri Rechinsky.
Vera Dreams of the Sea wins Main Award at International MIDPOINT Programme
PRAGUE: The fifth MIDPOINT educational programme aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school the final weekend of August 2014 with honours for…
Oscar winner Adrien Brody Shooting in Czech Republic
PRAGUE: Director Lee Tamahori (Another Day, Once Were Warriors) is filming Emperor, an epic action-adventure film starring Adrien Brody, in the Czech Republic.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator Focus on Distribution
American and European experts will converge in Telč for the 2014 edition of DOK.Incubator.
Czech TV Coproducing with ARTE and Discovery Channel
PRAGUE: Czech TV is coproducing three major projects with the Franco-German cultural channel ARTE and Discovery Channel: the documentary Life according to Vaclav Havel, the television miniseries Jan Hus and…
Sverak Film Closes in on Opening Weekend Record
PRAGUE: The new fairy tale Three Brothers by Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák had attendance of 122,000 in its opening weekend, second only to the Czech record set by the 2013…
