BUCHAREST: Applications are now open for the 8th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency, with the deadline on 6 March 2022. The programme is planned to run in mid-September 2022 in Cultural Port Cetate, on the banks of the Danube.
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry professionals across Europe. Click here for FNE UNIC EU Cinema Policy Update.
Digital Services Act
Film/AV sector DSA Trilogue statement – UNIC
The undersigned organisations representing the creative and business communities of the film and audiovisual sector in Europe regret that the European Parliament plenary vote on the Digital Services Act failed to achieve the stated goal of making internet intermediaries more accountable and creating a safer, better-functioning online environment for everyone.
Digital Services Act: regulating platforms for a safer online space for users – European Parliament
MEPs agreed a draft set of measures to tackle illegal content, to ensure platforms are held accountable for their algorithms, and improve content moderation.
Christel Schaldemose tells the Parliament Magazine, in an exclusive interview, about her hopes for the EU’s groundbreaking Digital Services Act – The Parliament Magazine
European Parliament’s lead rapporteur says EU policymakers have an obligation to ‘take back control’ of the internet.
Competition
Antitrust: Commission publishes final report on consumer Internet of Things sector inquiry – European Commission
The European Commission has published today the findings of its competition sector inquiry into the consumer Internet of Things (IoT). The final report and its accompanying staff working document identify potential competition concerns in the rapidly growing markets for IoT related products and services in the European Union.
French Presidency of the Council
French Presidency briefs the European Parliament’s committees on its priorities – European Parliament
Ministers outlined the priorities of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU to parliamentary committees, in a series of meetings.
Events:
3 February - Second Trilogue Digital Markets Act
10-20 February - Berlinale
14 February - European Film Forum at Berlinale on sustainability in the cinema industry
28/29 March - UNIC Cinema Days 2022
25-28 April - CinemaCon 2022
20-23 June - CineEurope 2022
The following grants were announced by the Georgian National Film Center on 17 January 2022.
“Petty Thieves” wins the 2022 edition of When East Meets West
The North Macedonia Film Agency distributed 821,950 EUR / 50.5 m MKD for production grants for feature, short, and documentary films within the second grant call of 2021.
A successful year for filmmakers: more than 15 mln Euro collected by taking advantage of the Lithuanian Film Tax Incentive
Press releases 27-01-2022The Film Tax Incentive running in Lithuania for the 9th year has yet again broken the records of success – in 2021 the investment has grown significantly, the number of film projects taking advantage of it has increased, as well as the number of international film projects in Lithuania.
TRIESTE: The 33rd edition of the Trieste Film Festival, running in person this year on 21 – 30 January, has announced its prize winners. The jury of the festival dedicated to Central and Eastern European cinema gave the Trieste Award for the best feature film to Romanian Radu Muntean’s Întregalde, while the Alpe Adria Cinema Award for the best documentary went to the Croatian film Factory to the Workers by Srđan Kovačević.
The Trieste Award assigned by the jury (Edvinas Pukšta, Dubravka Lakić, Emanuela Martini) to the best feature film in competition (euro 5.000) goes to ÎNTREGALDE by Radu Muntean (Romania 2021) with the following motivation: the most unpredictable film in the International Feature Film Competition smartly changes gears bridging divergent genres and moods, convincingly blending professional actors with unforgettable local amateurs, and tensely driving us to a surprising destination of genuine tranquillity.
VALLETTA: The Malta Film Week has kicked off with its Vision for the Film Industry event, celebrating the growing Maltese film industry and presenting the Government's plans for the sector for the years to come.
