FNE IDF DocBloc: Five years of Following the Trail of a Young Rebellious Racer
An interview with Gábor Hörcher about his documentary, Drifter, about a rebellious teenager, Ricsi, who intends to race in a local rally, although he has neither a driving license nor…
Anthropoid Heads for Czech Cinemas after US Box Office Success
PRAGUE: British/Czech/French coproduction Anthropoid by Sean Ellis, starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan, had 2,515,408 EUR gross in the US since opening on 12 August 2016. The WWII drama about…
Fire at Barrandov destroys the set of Knightfall
PRAGUE: A massive fire broke out at Prague Barrandov Studio on the night of 26 August 2016, causing damage estimated at approximately 3.7 m EUR. The set of Knightfall, the…
PRODUCTION: Josef Tuka Shoots Debut Feature Absence of Closeness
PRAGUE: New Czech production company Cinema Belongs To Us, founded by filmmaker Asmara Beraki, is currently in production with the low budget film The Absence of Closeness. This psychological drama…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Submit Your Documentary Projects from Central and Eastern Europe to East Doc Platform 2017
You can still apply to East Doc Platform (East European Forum, Project Market, Doc Tank, East Silver Videolibrary, KineDok) until 10 November 2016. The 6th edition of East Doc Platform…
New Czech Regional Film Office
PRAGUE: The Bohemian region of Usti nad Labem is setting up a film office that will attract filmmakers to the area. Regional authorities also want to encourage the development of…
MIDPOINT Starts Feature Launch Workshop and Opens Applications for TV Launch
PRAGUE: MIDPOINT Feature Launch Workshop opened in Ponesice (Czech Republic) on 21 August 2016, as MIDPOINT opened applications for its TV programme MIDPOINT TV Launch, focusing on the development of…
FNE IDF DocBloc: You Are Just Six Degrees Apart From Obama or a Mexican Farmer
Do you know that there is a theory that you are connected to any other individual on this planet via a chain of six contacts only? Polish filmmaker Bartosz Dombrowski…
PRODUCTION: Czech Puppet Animation in Pre-development
PRAGUE: Pavel Sadílek’s Nagano -The Birth of Heroes, a long puppet animated film made under the auspices of the Czech Olympic Committee and the Czech Ice Hockey, is currently in…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Submit Your Documentary Projects from Central and Eastern Europe to East Doc Platform 2017
The Institute of Documentary Film is looking for documentary projects in development/production/postproduction for the 6th edition of East Doc Platform, set to take place in Prague from 6 to 12…
PRODUCTION: Petr Jákl Preps Big Budget Jan Žižka
PRAGUE: Director/producer/screenwriter Petr Jákl is preparing a historic epic film about one of the most important personalities in the Czech history, Bohemia’s greatest warrior Jan Žižka of Trocnov. Expected to…
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Sylvie Leray, Artcam, Czech Republic
FNE and Europa Distribution are launching a new chapter in our Distributor of the Month section focusing on new trends and challenges of film distribution. In the coming months we…
PRODUCTION: Krobot Starts Shooting Quartet
PRAGUE: Czech director/actor Miroslav Krobot is currently shooting his second feature film, Quartet / Kvarteto. The film stars popular Czech actors such as Jiří Schmitzer and Barbora Poláková.
FNE IDF DocBloc: A Strong East European Delegation Will Attend Nordisk Panorama
In cooperation with Nordisk Panorama, the Institute of Documentary Film is organising numerous Eastern European delegations including a strong representation of Czech producers heading to this traditional Scandinavian festival of…
FNE at Venice 2016: Venice Film Festival Unveils Line up
VENICE: The 73rd Venice Film Festival, which will be held from 31 August to 10 September 2016, has unveiled it programme line up with Emir Kusturica’s Serbian/UK/USA coproduction On the…
FNE IDF DocBloc: KineDok never sleeps
The second edition of KineDok organised by the Institute of Documentary Film (IDF) is entering its second half, and so far there has been a great number of event-based screenings…
Anthropoid to Be Released in UK and Ireland in September 2016
PRAGUE: The British/Czech/French coproduction Anthropoid by Sean Ellis will be released in the UK and Ireland on 9 September 2016. The film stars Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Le Bon,…
FNE IDF DocBloc: East Silver Market 2016 - Submissions Open until 31 July
East Silver, a documentary market specialised in Eastern and Central European documentary film, is still open for submissions for upcoming projects in rough cut stage.
International Productions Are Still Flocking to the Czech Republic
PRAGUE: Several big international productions are shooting and prepping in the Czech Republic in the second half of 2016. The spend of international productions in the Czech Republic has increased…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Roma People Unfortunately Serve as a Target of Anger Here
Long-awaited documentary FC Roma by Tomáš Bojar and Rozálie Kohoutová had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary IFF. The film, supported by the Institute of Documentary Film, tells the…
