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Borys Lankosz, a renowned Polish filmmaker to tutor a screenwriting group at Slawomir Idziak's Film Spring Workshop
Borys Lankosz, a renowned Polish filmmaker is to tutor the screenwriting group at the annual Film Spring Workshop in Krakow, Poland, 17-26 October 2018.
Participants selected for Talents Sarajevo 2018
The 12th annual Talents Sarajevo, to be held in parallel with the 24th Sarajevo Film Festival, will host 61 prospective actors, cinematographers, directors, editors, film critics, producers and screenwriters from South Eastern Europe and South Caucasus. Among them are four Croatian professionals: Hrvojka Begović (actress), Hani Domazet (director), Katarina Prpić…
European authors call on MEPs to maintain strong support on authors' rights / copyright directive
In light of the recent vote in the European Parliament to postpone the vote on its position on the Copyright Directive, European authors call upon MEPs to maintain their strong support on authors’ rights.
Warsaw Kids Film Forum 2018 selection announced
Warsaw Kids Film Forum is delighted to announce the full selection of projects to be presented during the Forum in September. This year we were overwhelmed with 75 applications from 22 different countries from which the 36 projects were chosen to be part of Pitching and Script Exchange sessions. Filmmakers…
Macedonia Announces First Call for Support for International Promotion and Distribution of Domestic Films and Minority Co-productions
Macedonian Film Agency announced public Call for support for international promotion and promotion and distribution of domestic films and minority co-productions for the first time since its founding as a film fund in 2008. The support is given for participation on festivals and events and promotion and distribution of the…
OPEN CALL: Montenegro announces Public call for co-financing of the minority co-productions
Film Centre of Montenegro announced Public call for co-financing of the minority co-productions.
EFP FUTURE FRAMES at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018 Welcome to Young Filmmakers on the Rise
For the fourth year running European Film Promotion (EFP) and the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) present ten of the most promising new European directors and their films in the framework of EFP FUTURE FRAMES during KVIFF. The programme is supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of…
Free Oleg Sentsov
Altogether, as the representatives of the Czech documentary film community, we demand an immediate release of our colleague, Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was arrested by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation on 10 May 2014 and brought to Moscow to face what Amnesty International described as “an…
MASTER CLASS FOR EFP FUTURE FRAMES 2018 ANNOUNCED
Award-Winning Writer and Director Jasmila Zbanic (GRBAVICA) to be Mentor for the EFP FUTURE FRAMES 2018 Participants
Europa Distribution's Workshop on Script Analysis Karlovy Vary International Film Festival July 1 - 5 2018
Due to the high competitiveness of the film market, over the years the practice of buying films on script has become more and more common even for independent films. Today, in the distribution sector, the ability to evaluate the potential of a film from its script is a key aspect…
OPEN CALL for the Film Spring Workshop
Open Call for the Film Spring Workshop started on the 12th of June 2018. The Film Spring Workshop is a 10-day international, interdisciplinary training focused on comprehensive and future-oriented audiovisual education (ca. 350 participants in 2017). The workshop will take place in Krakow, Poland, 17-26 October 2018. Building on proven…
History of Love by the screenwriter and director Sonja Prosenc in the official competition programme of this year's festival in Karlovy Vary
At this year's international 53rd film festival in Karlovy Vary, which is to take place between 29 June and 7 July, the feature film History of Love by the screenwriter and director Sonja Prosenc will be featured in the official competition program. This will also be the film's world premiere.…
The shooting of the feature Don't Forget to Breathe by the director Martin Turk begins
On Tuesday, 19 June, the shooting of the third live-action feature Don't Forget to Breathe by the director Martin Turk, born in Trieste in 1978, began. Turk's films have been presented at more than a hundred film festivals all around the world, and he was the first Slovenian to be…
MIDPOINT presents new exciting projects at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018
Celebrating a new initiative between MIDPOINT and Karlovy Vary IFF, the 2018 edition will present 9 exciting projects being developed within the current Feature Launch program. The 9 projects have been carefully refined and further developed during the previous 2 workshops of the program, visiting the Trieste FF in Italy…
dok.incubator brings key decision makers to Telč, Czech republic
The dok.incubator workshop in Telč (June 24th – 30th) will host the script editors of the five biggest festivals of Europe and North America (Sundance, Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, IDFA and One World) to watch the documentaries in their latest stage of post-production. The selectors will share their know-how on…
INVESTMENT, INNOVATION AND DIVERSITY THE HALLMARK OF OUR INDUSTRY, SAYS UNIC PRESIDENT
Barcelona: 11 June 2018 – During his keynote address at CineEurope 2018, Phil Clapp, President of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the European Cinema trade grouping, reflected on the success of a sector which continued to thrive due to investment, innovation and diversity. Welcoming yet another increasingly diverse and…
First Ever Lithuanian Film Week in Beijing
On June 2–10, seven Capital Star Art Film theatres in the Chinese capital welcomed cinema-goers to 21 screenings of Lithuanian film. They had a chance to meet a delegation of the Lithuanian film industry – representatives of the Lithuanian Film Centre and producers of the films selected to be screened…
UNIC’S 2018 ANNUAL REPORT CELEBRATES THRIVING EUROPEAN CINEMA EXHIBITION SECTOR
CineEurope 2018, Barcelona: 12 June 2018 - The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the European Cinema trade grouping, has today published its Annual Report, examining key cinema trends across the 37 territories represented by the association, accounting for 1.34 billion admissions and €8.6 billion in box office revenues in 2017…
dok.incubator announces selected Czech projects
While former dok.incubator projects are experiencing a successful run (The Russian Job receiving Pavel Koutecký Award for Best Czech Documentary and Wilder Than Wilderness being the most seen documentary in Czech cinemas this spring), dok.incubator is announcing four new Czech projects for 2018: Lust For Life (director: Radovan Síbrt, producer:…
