BUDAPEST: FNE spoke to Anton Yudintsev, founder of  Gaijin Entertainment, about their current activities, as well as the state of the Hungarian game development industry and its connections with cinema.

VALLETTA: Austrian director/writer Danielle Proskar will start shooting his TV documentary Pirates and Slaves of the Mediterranean in September 2023. This Austrian/Maltese coproduction is supported by the Malta Film Commission - Creative Malta.

SARAJEVO: FNE spoke to Maša Marković, head of industry of the Sarajevo Film Festival, about the general goals and activities of the CineLink industry platform in 2023. CineLink was held 14 – 18 August 2023 during the 29th Sarajevo Film Festival (11 - 18 August 2023).

VALLETTA: Maltese director/writer/DoP Peter Sant will start shooting his feature film Background Sound (working title) on 28 August 2023. Most of the filming will take place in and around St Paul’s Bay.

VILNIUS: FNE spoke to Paulius Juočeris, managing director of  Iron Cat, about their current activities, as well as the state of the Lithuanian game development industry and its connections with cinema.

VALLETTA: FNE spoke to Anthony Demanuele, Studio Head of Flying Squirrel Games, about their current activities, as well as the state of the Maltese game development industry and its connections with cinema.

PRAGUE: Czech director Pavel Soukup is putting the final touches to his latest project, the thriller #annaismissing, which will be released by Aerofilms in Czech and Slovak cinemas in August 2023. #annaismissing is a standalone film continuation of the successful series #martyisdead, produced by Bionaut for Mall.tv, which was honoured with an International Emmy Award in 2020.