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Czech Film Fund Announced Support for 8 Minority Co-productions and 6 Animated Films Totaling €923,000

Czech Film Fund Announced Support of 8 Minority Co-productions and 6 Animated Films Totaling €923,000 On October 9, the Czech Film Fund announced support for minority co-productions with the sum of CZK 20 million (€ 769,230). From the total amount of 25 projects that applied for support, 14 projects were…
16-10-2018

What´s Slovak in Warsaw?

Three Slovak and co-production films will vie for the Warsaw Grand Prix at 34th Warsaw Film Festival (October 12 – 21, 2018). Check out the line-up! The Band (d. Ladislav Kaboš), documentary about the birth of the Romani band Lomnické Čháve will compete in Documentary Comepetition along withCircus Rwanda (d.…
11-10-2018

Warsaw as a meeting place for the European film industry related to children's and family cinema. Over 200 guests from 25 countries around the world - the Warsaw Kids Film Forum in numbers

At the end of September, another edition of the Warsaw Kids Film Forum twas held. It is a trade event accompanying the Kids Film Festival. The rich program of the event and the representation of various sectors of the film industry both from the country and from around the world…
10-10-2018

Moving Docs Expands Online with ‘Home Cinema’ VOD Channel

With its recently launched video-on-demand channel, Moving Docs Home Cinema now gives viewers around the world the opportunity to get instant access to a selection of critically acclaimed documentaries that are hard to find otherwise. Moving Docs is the very first pan-European distribution network for documentaries, powered by 20 screening…
10-10-2018

DAFilms.com presents: Retrospective of Jonas Mekas

“My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.”
08-10-2018

Cartoon. APPLY NOW FOR SCHOLARSHIP !

MEDIA programme actively supports the training of professionals from new member countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Serbia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia & Ukraine). To this end, CARTOON encourages applications for scholarships to its CARTOON…
02-10-2018

ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum announces 2018 programme

Three masterclasses, three 3-day workshops, pitching for stop motion shorts with 15 projects in the final, numerous presentations, LAIKA recruitment, animation breakfasts with special guests, presentations about stop motion animation in games and commercials, and one-to-one meetings will take place during the 3rd edition of ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum in…
01-10-2018

Oettinger, Randall, Kijek/Adamski join the line-up of ANIMARKT

Johan Oettinger, Chris Randall, and Polish creative duo Kijek/Adamski are the key speakers of ANIMARKT Talks conference (October, 12th) – a part of ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. ANIMARKT Talks is a one-day conference and a great opportunity to learn more about the animation market. Last year the main subject of…
01-10-2018

CEE Animation Workshop Opens a Call for Filmmakers from Low Production Capacity Countries

CEE Animation Workshop is a year-long programme of training, project development and networking for producers and their creative teams, focusing on animated or hybrid projects of all lengths and types (shorts, features, series). The aim is to provide tutoring in the field of content development, starting with script consultancy, as…
28-09-2018

Film Centre of Montenegro supports 22 Projects

Pursuant to the second competition announced for the cinematographic works production co-financing, the Film Centre of Montenegro will, at the proposal of the Council, support the total of 22 projects in different categories: screenplay development, project development, feature and short documentary films, as well as feature and short feature films…
27-09-2018

Polish National Film Festival is Gdynia to be the first national festival signing the Gender Quality pledge

Women in Film – an informal Polish organization gathering over 3000 women working in the film industry – organized a conference entitled “50:50 by 2020” on Friday, 21 September 2018 during the Gdynia Film Festival. Following the inspiring example of fellow women from all over the world and declarations signed…
27-09-2018

INDIE SALES PICKS UP “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”, A TIMELY ROMANIAN DRAMA INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS

Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired Gabi Virginia Şarga and Cătălin Rotaru first feature film, “Thou Shalt not Kill”. The director duo is known for their short film 4.15 PM The End of the World which was selected in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Thou Shalt…
26-09-2018

THE MACEDONIAN FILM AGENCY ANNOUNCED THE PARTNERSHIP WITH “LESS IS MORE”

On 26th of September, the Macedonian Film Agency within the framework of the 39th International Cinematographers' Film Festival “Manaki Brothers” in Bitola announced the one-year partnership with Less Is More – a training programme that was created by Le Groupe Ouest (France). The aim of the program is to help…
26-09-2018

11 projects from 9 countries selected to 13 edition of ScripTeast.

Each year Independent Film Foundation, organizer of ScripTeast, receives a a great number of projects, coming from all of the countries of the region and representing very high quality, spectrum of film genres and interesting subjects. The organizers would like to thank all the writers for their interest in the…
25-09-2018

Digitally restored Slovak films enter prestigious film festivals

In October, digitally restored Slovak films from the National Film Archive collection of Slovak Film Institute (SFI) will be presented at renowned international film festivals! Retrospective of Viktor Kubal will introduce in Spanish premiere the works of Slovak director, animator and artist at 51stSitges International Fantastic Film Festival(October 4 –…
25-09-2018

A FAIR AND PROPORTIONATE BUDGETARY ALLOCATION FOR CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA ESSENTIAL FOR GROWTH & SUSTAINABILITY OF EUROPEAN AV SECTOR

As organisations working across the European audiovisual sector, we represent film and TV producers, publishers and distributors of films both offline and online, sales companies, cinema operators and national promotion agencies. In the context of discussions surrounding the future of Creative Europe, we would like to reiterate our utmost support…
20-09-2018

FERA General Assembly 2018 Statement

Towards better working conditions and fairer EU authors' rights in the digital era
20-09-2018

EFA 2018 - Additional Film Entries

ADDITIONAL FILM ENTRIES: FEATURE FILMS - Like the 49 films in the EFA Feature Film Selection 2018, these films are eligible for nominations in the categories European Film, Director, Actress, Actor, and Screenwriter.
19-09-2018

CONNECTING COTTBUS project selection 2018: strong women, lost boyfriends and a leopard

East-West co-production market connecting cottbus, held during the FilmFestival Cottbus, celebrates its 20th anniversary with a solid line-up of 13 projects in development as well as 6 works in progress.
18-09-2018

Cartoon Springboard - Apply now for scholarship

The fourth edition of Cartoon Springboard will take place in Valenciennes, France, from 4 to 6 December 2018. It will be an excellent opportunity for the young talents of European animation schools to improve their animation project by pitching it in front of a panel of experts from the audiovisual…
18-09-2018