PRODUCTION: Posthumous Post-production for Nemec’s Final Film
PRAGUE: Acclaimed Czech New Wave filmmaker Jan Němec, the writer and director of the upcoming film The Wolf from the Royal Vineyard Street, died in March this year shortly before…
PRODUCTION: Jan Hrebejk preps Three-part Garden Store
PRAGUE: Jan Hřebejk, one of the most successful and active contemporary Czech filmmakers, has completed work on his Slovak/Czech coproduction The Teacher / Učitelka and is preparing a trilogy under…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Tutors Announced
Seven tutors have been announced for the first Ex Oriente 2016 workshop session.
Czech TV Preps Strong Line-up of Local Productions
PRAGUE: Czech Television is currently preparing a total of 406 projects greenlit last year. They include eight new drama series, 200 documentary films and programmes, 28 children’s programmes and 86…
Czech Law to Pump More Money into Czech Film
PRAGUE: The State Cinematography Fund will regularly receive money from the state budget. The sum of approximately 180 to 200 m CZK will be granted to the Fund on annual…
FNE at Finale Plzen 2016: Family Film Wins Finale Plzen
PLZEN: Olmo Omerzu’s Family Film won the Golden Kingfisher main prize at the 29th Finale Plzen film festival’s closing ceremony on 21 April 2016.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Interview with Matthieu Darras of the TorinoFilmLab
PLZEN: Matthieu Darras of TorinoFilmLab was in Plzen to participate in the Finale Plzen’s industry section. FNE asked Darras about the position of CEE filmmakers at the TorinoFilmLab.
CME Refinances Ahead of Quarterly Announcement
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises has completed a refinancing transaction to extend a credit facility agreement and a term loan, with the intention of decreasing the company’s financial leverage.
FNE at Finale Plzen: The Little Man
PLZEN: Radek Beran’s animated film The Little Man / Malý Pán, a Czech/Slovak coproduction, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
FNE IDF DocBloc: Docu Talents from the East Call for Entries
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival announces that submissions to the Docu Talents from the East 2016, a presentation of the finest Central and Eastern European creative documentary projects in the…
Expansion and Transition for MIDPOINT
PLZEN: The MIDPOINT script development programme is expanding and rebranding during its sixth year in operation. The addition of a TV series development programme saw a tripling of applications in…
FNE at Finale Plzen: David
PLZEN: David, the debut feature of Jan Těšitel, which had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary IFF, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
FNE at Finale Plzen: Czechs Present a Reduced Pitching Forum at Plzen
PLZEN: Five Czech projects and three foreign projects were presented in a revamped version of the annual pitching forum at the Finale Plzen festival running through 21 April 2016.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Gangster Ka: African
PLZEN: Gangster Ka: African, the second film of the two-part Gangster Ka project by Jan Pachl, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
FNE at Finale Plzen: The Greedy Tiffany
PLZEN: Andy Fehu‘s horror The Greedy Tiffany, which had its world premiere in 2015 at the Karlovy Vary IFF, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
PRODUCTION: Third Season of The Therapy Series Started Shooting
PRAGUE: HBO Europe started shooting the third and last season of The Therapy, the successful TV series based on the Israeli format BeTipul. Shooting will wrap in June 2016.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Chasing 50
PLZEN: Chasing 50 / Padesátka, a comedy made by the popular Czech actor/director Vojtěch Kotek, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
FNE at Finale Plzen 2016: Family Film
PLZEN: The Czech/German/French/Slovenian/Slovak coproduction Family Film / Rodinný Film by Prague-based Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
FNE at Finale Plzen: The Snake Brothers
PLZEN: Jan Prušinovský’s The Snake Brothers, winner of six Czech Lions in 2016, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).
FNE at Finale Plzen: Lost in Munich
PLZEN: Lost in Munich by Petr Zelenka, the winner of Czech Critics’ Awards in 2016, will screen at the 29th Finale Plzen (15-21 April 2016).