CME Appoints Matthias Settele General Director of TV Markiza
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cme.net) announced the appointment of Matthias Settele to replace outgoing General Director of Slovakia’s TV Markiza Zuzana Tapakova on 23 September.
PRODUCTION: Single Cut Hany Wraps 3-Day Shoot
PRAGUE: Debuting director Michal Samir finished a marathon three-day filming schedule on Hany, a drama shot on location in the famed Czech brewery city of Plzen, on 21 September 2013.
German and Norwegian Productions Joins Slate of International TV Projects Shooting on Czech Locations
PRAGUE: Historical TV productions are energizing the Czech international film service industry, with two TV projects for Germany’s SAT 1 and Norwegian TV scheduled to production within the next month,…
FESTIVALS: Jihlava Selects 19 Emerging Producers
PRAGUE: The second edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival’s Emerging Producers project has named 19 European participants. Central European participants come from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (with…
CME Names New Bosses
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises, the web of TV networks covering six nations in the region, has announced that Christoph Mainusch and Michael Del Nin will take immediately the reigns…
Czech Documentarians Chronicle Moravian Emigre
NEW PHILADELPHIA: Filmmakers for Czech TV recounting the life of Moravian missionary David Zeisberger for Vistafilm are exploring Tuscarawas County, Pennsylvania currently, shooting in places connected with his life, including…
Screenplay on Husák’s Wife Wins Main Award in International MIDPOINT Programme
Prague: MIDPOINT, an international educational project aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school this weekend with honors for best projects.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Riding the Freeway Blues
Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma…
Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund
PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
PRODUCTION: Korean TV Crews Wrap in Ostrava
PRAGUE: A 160 member film crew from South Korea's capital Soul has wrapped their 8-day shoot in Ostrava and Prague. The project, with working title International Market, is produced by…
Czech Parliament Puts Delayed Incentives Back on Track
The Czech government has ended months of delay in implementing this year's round of cash back film production incentives, a systemic snag caused by the collapse of the administration of…
Czech Lions Founder Examining Cosmic Questions Via Documentary
PRAGUE: Petr Vachler, founder of the Czech Lions awards, has begun shooting his second film – feature length documentary The Meaning and Mystery of Life (Tajemství a smysl života), in…
FNE TV AVP Live ! : Helena Frankova, Director Czech Cinematography Fund
The Czech Republic recently approved a new law for cinematography. FNE spoke with Helena Frankova earlier this year as the Czechs prepared to begin the process of the implementation of…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Beetles and Presidents Offer Lessons
PRAGUE: Armed with no end of ironic analysis, director Hana Novakova takes on modern Czech politics with the help of the south Bohemian bark beetle and several offbeat personalities in…
FNE TV: Michal Bregant, Director of the Czech National Film Archives
FNE asked PhDr Michal Bregant, the Director of the Czech National Film Archives about the recent re-organisation of the NFA and the new and more important role it will be…
FNE-IDF DocBloc: An Eye-Witness to History
Czechoslovakia - The Destiny of a Canadian, by award-winning filmmaker Lukáš Přibyl, is slated for release in October, according to the Institute of Documentary Film.
Prague Hosts Third 48 Hour Film Project
Fall will see indie film crews scrambling in the city streets as the Czech capital commences its third edition of the 48 Hour Film Project 4-6 October. The event, billed…
History TV Series Bring Summer Business to Prague
The first of three multi-episode international dramas for broadcast has wrapped with the completion of location shoots on 1864, the Czech/Danish/German co-production shot at Barrandov through Sirena Film, with epic…
PRODUCTION: Svěrák Music Fairy Tale Three Brothers Shooting
PRAGUE: Czech Oscar winner Jan Svěrák is in production on the music fairy tale Tři bratři (Three Brothers), based on the script by his father, Zdeněk, who has incorporated music…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Mark the Fall of the Wall with Rabbits at Prague's Světozor
PRAGUE: The disarming, award-winning Polish documentary Rabbit a la Berlin screens at Kino Světozor (www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/) in a celebration of the end of the Berlin Wall, which ironically gave the bunnies…