FNE - IDF DocBloc: Riding the Freeway Blues
Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma…
Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund
PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
PRODUCTION: Korean TV Crews Wrap in Ostrava
PRAGUE: A 160 member film crew from South Korea's capital Soul has wrapped their 8-day shoot in Ostrava and Prague. The project, with working title International Market, is produced by…
Czech Parliament Puts Delayed Incentives Back on Track
The Czech government has ended months of delay in implementing this year's round of cash back film production incentives, a systemic snag caused by the collapse of the administration of…
Czech Lions Founder Examining Cosmic Questions Via Documentary
PRAGUE: Petr Vachler, founder of the Czech Lions awards, has begun shooting his second film – feature length documentary The Meaning and Mystery of Life (Tajemství a smysl života), in…
FNE TV AVP Live ! : Helena Frankova, Director Czech Cinematography Fund
The Czech Republic recently approved a new law for cinematography. FNE spoke with Helena Frankova earlier this year as the Czechs prepared to begin the process of the implementation of…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Beetles and Presidents Offer Lessons
PRAGUE: Armed with no end of ironic analysis, director Hana Novakova takes on modern Czech politics with the help of the south Bohemian bark beetle and several offbeat personalities in…
FNE TV: Michal Bregant, Director of the Czech National Film Archives
FNE asked PhDr Michal Bregant, the Director of the Czech National Film Archives about the recent re-organisation of the NFA and the new and more important role it will be…
FNE-IDF DocBloc: An Eye-Witness to History
Czechoslovakia - The Destiny of a Canadian, by award-winning filmmaker Lukáš Přibyl, is slated for release in October, according to the Institute of Documentary Film.
Prague Hosts Third 48 Hour Film Project
Fall will see indie film crews scrambling in the city streets as the Czech capital commences its third edition of the 48 Hour Film Project 4-6 October. The event, billed…
History TV Series Bring Summer Business to Prague
The first of three multi-episode international dramas for broadcast has wrapped with the completion of location shoots on 1864, the Czech/Danish/German co-production shot at Barrandov through Sirena Film, with epic…
PRODUCTION: Svěrák Music Fairy Tale Three Brothers Shooting
PRAGUE: Czech Oscar winner Jan Svěrák is in production on the music fairy tale Tři bratři (Three Brothers), based on the script by his father, Zdeněk, who has incorporated music…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Mark the Fall of the Wall with Rabbits at Prague's Světozor
PRAGUE: The disarming, award-winning Polish documentary Rabbit a la Berlin screens at Kino Světozor (www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/) in a celebration of the end of the Berlin Wall, which ironically gave the bunnies…
PRODUCTION: Czech Village Tale Nowhere Shooting in Hills
Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape…
EU Approval Unblocks Czech Film Grants Process
Czech producers, distributors, cinemas and festivals are rushing to apply for grants from the newest iteration of the state Cinematography Fund following a European Commission ruling Tuesday approving the system's…
Big-Budget Czech Historic Films on the Rise
Following two decades of mainly small-scale, personal films, Czech producers are moving into larger projects celebrating epic historic tales set in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the First Republic and…
PRODUCTION: Dedictvi or Kurvaseneříká Wraps filming
PRAGUE: The two-month shoot in Prague and Brno of comedy Dedictví or Kurvaseneříka (The Heritage 2) has wrapped, following up on the film's first part
PRODUCTION: Czech 90's Story Wraps
The creative team behind Walking Too Fast (Pouta) - director Radim Špaček, screenwriter Ondřej Štindl, DoP Jaromír Kačer and producer Vratislav Šlajer - have wrapped two months of shooting for…
CME Struggling Under Ad Slump But Hopeful
PRAGUE: TV Nova owner Central European Media Enterprises has reported another drop in revenues of $31 m for the second quarter of the year to $180 m, citing an ad…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Jihlava Docu Winner Fortress in Run for Lux Prize
PRAGUE: Strikingly original documentary Fortress by Czech filmmakers Lukáš Kokeš and Klára Tasovská, will compete in the Lux Prize, marking the second time a Czech nonfiction film has had the…
