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Lithuanian Film Centre Announced Production and Development Grants for 2020 2nd Session
The Lithuanian Film Centre has distributed €2 515 685 at its second session of financing for 2020. In all, 59 film projects received funding for production and development. The government has allocated €1 861 695 for the production of 31 films, including 3 feature films, 5 documentaries, 14 shorts and…
World animation masters at the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum 2020
Kim Keukeleire, Andy Gent, Tobias Fouracre, Malcolm Hadley. The world-renowned artists working in Oscar-winning productions will be guests of this year's 5th ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum, during which they will lead the workshops on animating, art of cinematography and puppet building. The workshops, addressed to students and aspiring artists, are…
Understanding Documentary Film Audiences in Europe Findings from the Moving Docs Survey 2020
MAKEDOX 17.08.2018 Over the Limit Moving Docs Screeing In 2019, Moving Docs – a European partnership for the joint distribution of documentaries across Europe - ran an online survey of documentary audiences across Europe with the support of Creative Europe. Written by Dr Huw D Jones (University of Southampton, UK)…
OLEG SENTSOV STARTS FILMING
Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov starts preparations to his new film, a crime drama Rhinoceros. The film will be made in co-production of Ukraine, Poland and Germany. Rhinoceros is a crime drama that unfolds in the 90s in Ukraine, the times that have changed us all: it was the transition from…
CICAE Art Cinema - July 2020
SAVE THE DATE CICAE General Assembly – 10 September 2020 via zoom Considering the context of the pandemic, CICAE will organize its annual General Assembly via Zoom on September 10, 2020, starting at 15:00 (GMT+2).All members of the association are invited to participate. A French-English translation will be provided.We will…
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2021 Opens for Submissions
MIDPOINT Feature Launch, one of the core programs of MIDPOINT Institute, aims to support writers, directors, producers and aspiring script consultants coming mainly from Central and Eastern Europe and the wider Mediterranean area (detailed eligibility info here).
Recognitions to Stitches and God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija at Sofia IFF
Fiction feature Stitches, a Croatian minority co-production directed by Miroslav Terzić, received the Balkan Competition jury special mention, while God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, also a Croatian minority co-production, won the Bulgarian Film Critics Guild Award. This year’s edition of Sofia International Film Festival is divided into two instalments…
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2020: Awards Winners
The MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2020 generation, represented by 22 filmmakers and 3 script consultant trainees, attended the Eastern Promises Industry Days of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, which were held online July 6-9, 2020. Nine promising projects of feature films were pitched on Tuesday, July 7 during Works in Development…
PRESS RELEASE // FIRST CUT+ WRAPS UP ITS SECOND SESSION SUCCESSFULLY
The second session this year of First Cut+ just ended successfully. The workshop, with four days of consultations with various film industry experts for the eight selected producers and filmmakers, took place online due to the pandemic. First Cut+ work-in-progress session, created for connecting the eight projects with cinema’s industry…
Romanian Film Awards during coronavirus pandemic Gopo Awards adapts big scale ceremony to outdoor format
With cinemas being still closed and international film festivals postponed or canceled, the Gopo AwardsWith cinemas being still closed and international film festivals postponed or canceled, the Gopo Awards - the Romanian national film awards offer a good practice example about how a similar event couldhappen under strong safety and…
UNIC LAUNCHES FOURTH EDITION OF THE WOMEN’S CINEMA LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME
Brussels: 30 June 2020 - The International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), the European cinema trade grouping, today launched the fourth edition of its Women’s Cinema Leadership Programme, a 12-month mentoring programme for women in cinema exhibition.
MASTER CONSULTATIONS AND WORKSHOP ON ANIMATIC. A NEW PROJECT FOR ANIMATION CREATORS HAS STARTED
How to make a film character roll their eyes in a characteristic way? What should a shrew's fur be made of to make it look natural? What one is supposed to do to make works on the puppet's animation not only showy, but also effective? If creators of animated films…
NEM Network: New online platform for TV professionals starts in August
Digital expansion of the popular NEM Dubrovnik and NEM Zagreb events Zagreb, June 29th, 2020 – A new online platform for TV industry professionals, NEM Network, is set to launch on August 19th, 2020. The online extension of everyone’s favorite NEM Dubrovnik and NEM Zagreb events is conceived as their…
Croatian films at 20th goEast
Competition programmes of the 20th goEast – Festival of Central and Eastern European Film will feature Vinko Brešan’s feature-length What a Country! and Sara Jurinčić’s experimental short September 3, 2015. Nenad Puhovski’s documentary Graham and I – A True Story has been selected for the “Symposium” programme, while Sara Jurinčić…
Film Proxy
Executive summary Film Proxy is an advocate for the emerging Polish below-the-line talent. The talent is scouted and recruited within four areas: cinematography, editing, sound, animation and special effects. Film Proxy promotes them by organizing a series of free, curated matchmaking on-site events with local and international professional film producers,…
Macedonian films at the 73rd Film Market in Cannes
The COVID 19 pandemic has urged the Cannes Film Festival to hold Marche du Film online for the first time from 22 to 26 June. The North Macedonia Film Agency is presented at the virtual film market with an e-pavilion. The Agency will present eight features at the virtual film…
Works in Development – Feature Launch 2020
About A unique training platform for emerging talents aimed at scouting the most talented filmmakers & producers of the future who are developing their first or second feature film projects. It focuses primarily on creative teams from Central and Eastern Europe. Every year it selects teams of writers, directors and…
Works in Development – Feature Launch 2020
KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award Jury Joseph Fahim Joseph Fahim is an Egyptian film critic, programmer and lecturer. He is the Arab delegate of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a former member of Berlin Critics' Week, the curator of the 2018 Safar Film Festival in London, and ex-director of…
MIDPOINT Feature Launch showcase at KVIFF Eastern Promises
MIDPOINT Institute presents 9 feature film projects and 3 script consultants at online Eastern Promises Industry Days of KVIFF.
MIDPOINT Shorts 2020-2021 opened for applications!
Apply with your short film project to the new edition of our program! MIDPOINT Shorts is a professional project development program open to creative teams of writers, directors and producers.
