Interview with Martin Šmatlák
FNE: What was the most important development in Slovak film industry over the past year? Martin Šmatlák: The main change is the creation of the Audiovisual Fund on 1 January…
FNE Visegrad Country Focus: Slovakia 2009
FNE Visegrad Country Focus: Slovakia 2009Slovakia made a giant step forward in 2009 with the adoption of the Euro as its national currency and long awaited audiovisual legislation that established…
Slovaks draw interest at CineMart
Slovak Producer Marko Skop and the director Juraj Lehotsky, the first Slovak film makers present at CineMart, are drawing interest with their feature film The Miracle (Zazrak ).
PRODUCTION: Winton doc sequel in postproduction
Slovak director Matej Minac is in postproduction with Niicky's Family, his sequel to The Power of Good, the 2002 Emmy award winning documentary about Sir Nicholas Winton.
Fornay presents My Dog Killer at Berlin coproduction market
Slovak director Mira Fornay who premiere of her Irish-Slovak-Czech feature debut Foxes at Venice, will present her second film project Brat (My Dog Killer) at the Berlinale Co-production Market February…
Film Europe and SPI launch documentary channel
Film Europe, a division of distribution company SPI International (www.spi-film.eu), has launched DocuCS, the second of three themed TV and VOD channels planned for the Czech and Slovak markets.
PRODUCTION: Normalization goes into postproduction
After four year of gathering materials, Normalization, a full-length docu-tragedy by Slovak director Robert Kirchhoff, has gone into post-production.
Slovak presence at Rotterdam and Goteborg announced
Slovakia will present three films at the Rotterdam film festival and two films at Goteborg, spanning both fiction and documentary films.
TV series blossom in Slovakia
Slovakia is experiencing a boom in domestic TV series, with eight successful series being produced by the country's two commercial stations, Joj and Markiza.
Foxes opens in Slovakia, plans Irish debut
The Irish-Czech-Slovak coproduction Foxes (Lištičky) by Slovak director Mira Fornay opened in Slovakia December 10, following its Slovak premiere at the Bratislava film festival, distributed by Continental Film, s.r.o. (www.continental-film.sk).
Slovak films attract local audiences
For the second consecutive year, Slovak films are finding success at the local box office, with a market share that could top 20% for 2009 acccording to a new report…
Slovakia looks to build on current successes
A Slovak Film Institute (www.sfu.sk) panel, sponsored by Film New Europe, on the global position of Slovak films had a practical goal: to ensure that the current crop of international…
FNE VISEGRAD FORUM: Slovakia transitions from Audiovisual program to Audiovisual Fund
In 2009 the Slovak film industry saw one of its most relevant transitions: the creation of an independent audiovisual funding body.
FNE VISEGRAD FORUM: FNE Interview with Martin Smatlak
FNE spoke with Martin Šmatlák, the first director of the new Slovak Audiovisual Fund (http://www.culture.gov.sk/sekcie/audiovizualny-fond2), about the current state of the Slovak film industry.
FNE VISEGRAD FORUM: Slovak film and the global financial crisis
While commercial Slovak television, led by CME's Markiza TV, has seen a dramatic downturn in advertising revenues due to the global economic crisis, the Slovak film industry has so far…
FNE VISEGRAD FORUM: Country Focus Slovakia 2009
Slovakia made a giant step forward in 2009 with the adoption of the Euro as its national currency and long awaited audiovisual legislation that established a new Audiovisual Fund.
FNE VISEGRAD FORUM: Co-productions in Slovakia
Slovakia's filmmakers have participated in an impressive 12 coproductions in 2009 -- four of them with a Slovak majority share.
FESTIVALS: Bratislava announces competition films
The Slovak film Foxes will be among twelve films to compete at the 11th Bratislava film festival, November 27 - December 4.
Slovakia nominates Broken Promise for Oscar race
The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) has nominated the film Broken Promise (directed by Jiri Chlumsky) as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award 2010.
Producer workshop scheduled for Slovakia
The next MAIA Workshop for emerging European producers will take place October 5-9 in Modra, near Bratislava.
