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SCRIPT POOL TALLINN TEAMS WITH MIDPOINT
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event will team up with the Czech MIDPOINT TV Launch programme to develop and support new TV drama projects and talents.
“EAVE on Demand – 2 Day Formula” training program in Montenegro
Film Centre of Montenegro has established cooperation with one of the leading training programs for film professionals in Europe – EAVE. European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, EAVE, is a professional training, project development and networking organization for audiovisual producers. Founded in 1988, EAVE is leading training platform and a unique international network…
Czech Film Fund awarded €82,353 for Production of Documentaries and Fiction Features Development
The Czech Film Fund announced support for the production of documentaries and development of feature-length fiction projects in its recent schemes announced at the end of July. All together 23 projects will be granted the amount of 21 million Czech crowns (€82,353). The Fund has allocated 12 million Czech crowns…
ANIMARKT Masters 2018 – Beast Animation, Carlos Bleycher, Tim Allen at 2018 Animarkt Workshops
Directing stop motion animation workshop with the Beast Animation studio, character development and storytelling workshop with Carlos Bleycher, character animation workshop with Tim Allen – these are the workshops of this year’s ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. Workshops are free, but the number of participants is limited. One of the essential…
Programming innovations for MIDPOINT TV Launch 2019
MIDPOINT TV Launch being prepared for 2019 with new additions MIDPOINT TV Launch is now open to submissions and preparing for its 2019 edition with a number of new and exciting additions. Evaluating the previous history of the program and presenting its future outline is the Program Coordinator Katarina Tomkova.…
A director of Dawn, Latvia’s official entry for Oscar consideration, will teach at the Film Spring Workshop
Laila Pakalnina, a renowned Latvian film director and screenwriter will come to Krakow, Poland in October to tutor the documentary group at the Film Spring Workshop. This will be the 13th edition of the audiovisual training which offers lectures, workshops, film screenings and meetings with artists as well as access…
MY UNKNOWN SOLDIER: A new documentary film following the events of the 1968 Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia is told from the perspective of an occupier, the title’s Unknown Soldier
In August 2018, the Czech Republic and Slovakia commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact army into Czechoslovakia, justified by the Soviet political elite as the suppression of a counter-revolution taking place in the country. This important point in the history is presented from an unusual…
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST announces the 2019 East & West focus
After the successful 2018 focus on South East Europe and the Nordic countries, When East Meets West is back to work on the new edition to be held on January 20/22, 2019. WEMW 2019 will keep the same formula primarily based on a double focus on one Eastern and one…
From 6 continents, contenders to the 5-week docs boot camp
“Take a camera, shoot something, show it to somebody” - Jean Luc Godard Few spots around the world give young filmmakers a shot at making a doc, from idea to screening, in just 5 weeks, under some of the finest tutoring in the world today: New York Film School, a…
Lithuanian Film and Talent at This Year’s Locarno IFF
The 71st Locarno International Film Festival, which kicks off today, is exceptionally rich in Lithuanian accents. Three Lithuanian films or co-productions have been selected to participate in the festival’s programmes and will have their world premieres in Locarno, to be presented by their filmmakers. In addition to film screenings, three…
Collaboration between Polish Film Institute and EAVE yields new scholarships for Polish producers
Polish Film Institute and EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), one of the leading professional training, project development and networking organizations for audiovisual producers, are happy to announce the continuation of their successful partnership that will again and for the third time offer a scholarship for one Polish producer and project for…
SOFA – SCHOOL OF FILM AGENTS 2018 line-up revealed
Start of the 6th edition (August 26-31, 2018) They act as agents to the film industry and as ambassadors to the cinema audience. SOFA – School of Film Agents invites film-related cultural managers to a unique pan-European think tank for the future of cinema. International industry experts provide participants with…
Styx, Woman at War and The Other Side of Everything vie for the LUX Prize
The three finalists will travel the continent, before the award is given out at the European Parliament on 14 November Today, at the Giornate degli Autori press conference, President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, and Coordinator of the Committee on Culture and Education Silvia Costa, announced the three films…
2018 ODESA IFF SCRIPTEAST SERIES PITCHING AWARD GOES TO “FAMILY ARCHIVES” FROM CROATIA. SPECIAL AWARD FOR MAŁGORZATA PIŁACIŃSKA FROM POLAND
The second edition of the Odesa IFF ScripTeast Series Pitching took place in Odesa on 17. - 20. July. It is a drama series competition organized by the Odesa International Film Festival Film Industry Office Team, powered by ScripTeast - a master training program for the best Eastern European scriptwriters,…
ANIMARKT Pitching 2018 – submit a project of your stop motion short
Projects of animated shorts and TV special episodes made with the use of puppet technique can take part in the pitching organized for the second time during ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. The deadline for submissions is July 31st.
Four Croatian films at Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico
The 21st Guanajuato International Film Festival will include the screenings of four Croatian films. Cyclists by Veljko Popović and ‘The Stranger’ In My Head by Petra Balekić will screen in competition, while Into the Blue by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović and The Lovetts by Igor Bezinović will screen out of competition.…
Lithuanian Cinema and Documentary Thrive in First Half of 2018
Over the first six months of this year, national cinema in Lithuania has seen a significant rise in attendance, as evidenced by box office returns: ticket sales of Lithuanian films have almost reached 60% of last year’s total (€2.6 million, compared to €4.5 million in 2017), attracting 500,000 viewers (compared…
MIDPOINT's success stories in Karlovy Vary
This year's MIDPOINT Feature Launch program had its final showcase during the Karlovy Vary IFF, helping to launch the career of 9 promising projects and their talented participants. Here are the highlights of the third module, Works in Development – Feature Launch.
THIS SUMMER SWIMMING IN THE SEA OF DOCUMENTARIES – DIVE INTO FACTUM’S ONLINE VIDEO STORE!
One of the most important Croatian documentary film production companies has launched a new project: Factum Online, bringing the broad spectrum of Factum’s documentaries to your home – from the recent ones to the rarely seen!
