According to The Baltic Times, the project has the support of the Latvian Minister of Culture.
The Riga Motion Pictures Studio (www.studio.lv) began a cooperation with the Academy (www.lka.edu.lv) this year, offering student internships at the Studio. The Studio complex opened in 1961, producing 15 feature films annually and employing 1,000 people during the Soviet era.
The Academy opened in 1991 and currently enrolls some 600 students.
The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region. The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region.
FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region.