FESTIVALS: Film Europe Expands Festival Activities with Girls in Film
PRAGUE: Film Europe media company is co-launching its yet another festival to add to its portfolio of mini film festivals, Girls in Film, focusing on first and second films by…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Tutors Announced
Eleven tutors will head up the 2018 Ex Oriente Film Workshop.
FESTIVALS: EFP Future Frames at Karlovy Vary
HAMBURG: European Film Promotion will put the spotlight on ten young directors in the fourth edition of Future Frames at Karlovy Vary IFF during a four-day event, which runs 1-4…
FNE at Zlin IFF: Supa Modo Wins 58th Zlin Film Fest
ZLIN: A Kenyan/German coproduction for the youth audience, Supa Modo directed by Likarion Wainaina, won the Golden Slipper for the Best International Feature Film at the 57th Zlin IFF for…
FNE at Zlin IFF: ČT Déčko Children's Channel Celebrates a Strong Five-year Run
ZLIN: Executive Director of the Czech Television Petr Koliha talked exclusively to FNE about the success and future or the Déčko children's channel.
FESTIVALS: East of the West Competition Films
PRAGUE: Twelve films are competing in the East of the West competition at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF.
FNE at Zlin IFF: Planet Nemo Animation Picks up Harvie and the Magic Museum
ZLIN: French sales agent Planet Nemo Animation picked up the animated Czech/Belgian/Russian coproduction Harvie and the Magic Museum directed by Martin Kotík and Inna Evlannikova.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Pavel Koutecky Award Winner Announced
Petr Horky won the 2018 Pavel Kotecky Award.
GRANTS: Nine Features Get Czech Film Fund Support
PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund supported the production of nine feature films, totalling 65 m CZK / 2.509,168 EUR.
FNE AT ZLIN IFF: Czech State Cinematography Fund Aims to Increase Youth Film Audiences
ZLIN: Building teen attendance in cinemas is one of the goals of the New Cinema 2018-2019 project, designed to educate cinema operators on improving youth film audience numbers, presented at…
FNE at Zlin IFF: International Coproduction Winter Flies Wraps Post-production
ZLIN: Winter Flies, a new film from Olmo Omerzu, coproduced by the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Slovakia, France and Poland, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
FNE at Zlin IFF: Michal Hogenauer in Postproduction with Certain Kind of Silence
ZLIN: Certain Kind of Silence, a coproduction between the Czech Republic, Latvia and The Netherlands, is being readied for a summer 2018 release.
FNE at Zlin IFF: Slovak Music Film BACKSTAGE Set to Premiere in Czech Republic
ZLIN: BACKSTAGE, a music film coproducion between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, directed by Andrea Sedláčková, will open in Czech cinemas on 7 June 2018 distributed by Bontonfilm. The film…
FESTIVALS: Karlovy Vary Announces Competition Films
PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF announced the 12 films that will screen in the main competition. Ten of the films will be world premieres. The festival will take place 29…
FNE at Zlin IFF: Juraj Nvota Directs Czech/Slovak Kids Detective Series
ZLIN: The celebratory zero clapperboard at 58th Zlin IFF launched the production of Crime Story 5.C, an upcoming Czech/Slovak coproduction for children directed by Juraj Nvota.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Film Announces 2018/2019 projects
Twelve documentary film projects have been selected for the 16th Ex Oriente Film Workshop.
FESTIVALS: Oscar Winner Barry Levinson to Receive Karlovy Vary’s Highest Honour
PRAGUE: Barry Levinson, who won an Oscar for his film Rain Man, will be at the 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF (29 June – 7 July 2018) to accept the Crystal…
FNE at Zlin IFF 2018: Competition Films
ZLIN: The world’s oldest and largest children’s film festival, the 58th Zlin Film Festival (25 May – 2 June 2018), will screen eight films in its children’s competition and another…
Jihlava IDFF Relocates Docu Talents to Sarajevo FF
PRAGUE: The showcase and forum of upcoming documentary films Docu Talents from the East, presented by Jihlava IDFF, is moving from Karlovy Vary IFF to the Sarajevo Film Festival.
FESTIVALS: Czechs Launch Festival Honouring Doc Filmmaker Pavel Koutesky
PRAGUE: A new Czech-German film festival of documentary films, Elbe Dock, created in connection with the 12th edition of the Pavel Koutecky Award, is bringing contemporary Czech and German documentaries…
