LODZ: Polish public broadcaster TVP signed a co-operation agreement with Lodz Film School that includes competitions for best school films and scripts, broadcasting opportunities, access to TV archives and internships.

PRAGUE: The fifth film in the Kamenak comedy series, Christmas Kamenak directed by F.A. Brabec, opened in first place in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

WARSAW: The French black comedy Grand Froid by debut director Gérard Pautonnier will begin filming in Krakow in January 2016.

KRAKOW: Martha Coolidge is working on her epic Polish/American love story Music, War and Love. The crew has already completed principal photography in Łódź and is currently working in Krakow.

HAMBURG: The Board of Directors of European Film Promotion (EFP) appointed Sonja Heinen to replace Renate Rose as Managing Director of the pan-European network at their recent meeting in Hamburg.

WARSAW: Producers from Poland and Germany are invited to apply for funding from the Polish-German Film Fund.

FNE asked Paris based sales agent and distributor Loic Magneron, President of Wide Distribution and Production about how VOD and new players on the European market like Netflix are changing…

PRAGUE: Vojtech Jasny was given Prague’s Academy of Performing Arts Golden Medal, its highest honour, on 30 November 2015. Jasny was an early graduate of the academy’s film programme, FAMU.

WARSAW: Poland will not seek an appeal to a court ruling against the extradition of Roman Polanski, effectively clearing the way for Polanski to shoot his next film in Poland.

WARSAW: After winning a spot in the MUX-8 transmitter for best lifestyle channel project, Agora plans to invest 30 m PLN (7 m EUR) in the new channel Kiwi TV.