GRANTS: Hungary Funds Seven Animation Projects
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian National Media Authority awarded 64m HUF in grants for animation films. All of the seven new productions will be broadcast first on Magyar Televízió.
FNE TV: Susan Wendt head of Europa International
FNE spoke to Susan Wendt head of sales at TrustNordisk, Denmark and recently elected head of the sales agents’ organisation Europa Internationa,l about why they are teamed up with Europa…
FNE at Europa International Athens 2013: Sales agents focus on new distribution platforms
ATHENS: The focus was on digital distribution and the new opportunities that new platforms like VOD can provide for European films at the second annual Europa International conference in Athens.
FNE/IDF DocBloc: Wolf
Producer Radim Prochazka looks at the efforts of a man to clear the name of his father, a rabbi at the Terezin concentration camp who decided which inmates would be…
FESTIVALS: Ten Films Compete at Tbilisi IFF 2013
TBILISI: Georgia reaches to some of the farthest corners of Europe for the international competition at the 14th Tbilisi IFF, running 2-8 December 2013.
FNE TV: Tiina Teras winner Europa Cinemas Best Programming Award 2013
FNE asked Tiina Teras, programmer of Kino Artis in Tallinn and winner of the Europa Cinemas Best Programming Award 2013 about how she programmes her cinema in Tallinn and the…
PRODUCTION: Agnieszka Holland Preps Polish German Czech Coproduction
WARSAW: Agnieszka Holland is in preparation with Game Count (Polish title Pokot), a crime drama which will go into production in 2014.
Estonia and Korea Sign Film Memorandum
TALLINN: The Estonian Film Institute and the Korean Film Council have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost cooperation between the two countries’ film industries. The memorandum is the first…
Screen tourism in Croatia boosted by Game of Thrones
ZAGREB: Stimulated by the international productions shot in Croatia recently, especially the fourth season of HBO’s series Game of Thrones, screen tourism can be a strong alternative to regular tourism…
FNE TV: Xavier Troussard Head of Unit for Creative Europe-MEDIA programme, European Commission
FNE asked Xavier Troussard what changes the Central and Eastern European film industry can expect to see under his leadership as the new head of Creative Europe-MEDIA programme at the…
Romanian filmmakers win battle over funding of cinemas
BUCHAREST: The Romanian government has stepped back from a controversial plan that would have drained money from film production funding to pay for state owned cinemas, after protests by Romanian…
Croatian audiovisual sector pumps cash into state budget
ZAGREB: The Croatian audiovisual industry pays back 1.5 to 2.3 HRK into the state budget for every HRK that the government spends in subsidizing the AV sector, according to a…
FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013: Free Range
TALLINN: Free Range, third feature from Venice Horizons award-winning Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu was selected as Estonia’s entry for the 2013 foreign language Oscar nomination despite ciritical domestic response.
National Media Authority Funds Documentaries
BUDAPEST: Hungary’s National Media Authority will distribute 117m HUF to 16 documentary productions and 74m HUF for nine science films.
Ida Scores Double Wins
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida has won the Grand Prix of the Plus Camerimage film festival and the Best Film of Spain’s Gijon film festival.
FNE at Europa Cinemas Athens 2013: Estonian Kino Artis Wins Best Programming Award
ATHENS: Estonian cinema Kino Artis was awarded the prize for Best Programming of 2013 in the Europa Cinemas network at the 18th Europa Cinemas Conference in Athens held 21-24 November…
Czech Sirena Film shooting Heavy Water War with Anna Friel
PRAGUE: Sirena Film is in production with the Norwegian TV series Heavy Water War, a WWII story starring Anna Friel.
Malta to Fund Digitalisation of Cinemas
The government of Malta plans to distribute up to 500,000 EUR toward digitalisation of Malta’s cinemas.
FNE at Baltic Event 2013: Project Slate
TALLINN: The annual Baltic Event, kicks off on 27 November this week running for three days in Tallinn presenting slates of projects in four different sections:
Aftermath scores international sales
WARSAW: Polish director Władysław Pasikowski’s controversial drama Aftermath has scored international distribution in the US, Russia and Slovakia.
