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Cold War and High Life producers team up with Polish sales outlet New Europe on a new production initiative
Leading Polish film producers Ewa Puszczyńska (Ida, Cold War) and Klaudia Śmieja (High Life, Gareth Jones, The Innocents, Under the Tree) are teaming up with Jan Naszewski’s New Europe Film Sales (Rams, Summer 1993) to set up a new production outlet called NEM Corp. The new company’s aim will be…
SOFA – School of Film Agents launches pilot workshop in Vilnius, focusing on public-private project financing and investment
In addition to its existing workshops in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Warsaw (Poland), SOFA – School of Film Agents is launching a third workshop in Vilnius, Lithuania. Between 11 and 15 September 2018, selected SOFA alumni will get the chance to present their projects in front of experienced private investors and…
European Heritage Days 2018: Celebrating the Art of Sharing
The European Heritage Days (EHDs), a joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission, are the most widely celebrated participatory cultural events shared by the citizens of Europe. The pan-European nature of this project contributes to bringing citizens together and highlighting the European dimension and the value…
Czech Films at Toronto IFF 2018
The Czech Film Center is heading to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) September 7-13. We’ll be based at the EFP Europe! Umbrella No. 24 at TIFF Industry Centre at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. If you would like to meet with us, get some information about Czech film industry, please…
Lithuanian documentary Wonderful Losers: A Different World submitted for best foreign-language film Oscar nomination
Arūnas Matelis’ feature documentary Wonderful Losers: A Different World has been selected as Lithuania’s entry for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ award – the Oscar – in the best foreign-language film category. This is Matelis’ second film with a shot at an Oscar nomination. In 2008, the…
ANIMARKT 2018 – LAIKA will recruit animators and costume makers
The one and only meeting in Central and Eastern Europe, during which Anna Kvorning from LAIKA will recruit animators and costume makers to work in the studio in USA will be held this year at ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum.
EFP FILM SALES SUPPORT Funds 27 European Films at the Toronto International Film Festival 2018
EUROPE! Umbrella – Updated Guide to 94 World Sales Companies
49 Feature Films Selected for European Film Awards
It is with great pleasure that the European Film Academy and EFA Productions announce the titles of the 49 films on this year’s EFA Feature Film Selection, the list of feature-length fiction films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2018! With 35 European countries represented, the list…
Registration for Consultants’ Tables at Warsaw Kids Film Forum is now open
Registration for meetings with our Consultants jus started. Consultants’ Tables are individual meetings with international experts in the filed of scriptwiritng. This year, we wanted to invite guests specializing in various genres, meeting the needs of creators of both feature and TV series production, as well as those who work…
CinéDOC Summer School 2018 – Framing Reality
The first documentary film summer school organized by the CinéDOC-Tbilisi International Documentary Film Festival will take place from 18 – 26 August in Gori, Georgia. CinéDOC summer school is an intensive week of lectures, exercises, film screenings and one-to-one meetings, conducted by an international team of specialists within the field…
Winter Flies, "Barbarians" and Putin's Witnesses at Toronto IFF
Three Czech films or coproductions will celebrate their International or North American premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Winter Flies by Olmo Omerzu, "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians" by Radu Jude and Vitaly Mansky’s Putin’s Witnesses were already awarded at the Karlovy Vary…
It´s that time of the year… EAVE Marketing Workshop reloaded: APPLY NOW!
Deadline for applications: September 14
MIDPOINT Feature Launch offers cash prize 10.000 EUR!
MIDPOINT and the Karlovy Vary IFF are happy to announce a financial award for the best project of the future Feature Launch 2019 program.
SCRIPT POOL TALLINN TEAMS WITH MIDPOINT
Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event will team up with the Czech MIDPOINT TV Launch programme to develop and support new TV drama projects and talents.
“EAVE on Demand – 2 Day Formula” training program in Montenegro
Film Centre of Montenegro has established cooperation with one of the leading training programs for film professionals in Europe – EAVE. European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, EAVE, is a professional training, project development and networking organization for audiovisual producers. Founded in 1988, EAVE is leading training platform and a unique international network…
Czech Film Fund awarded €82,353 for Production of Documentaries and Fiction Features Development
The Czech Film Fund announced support for the production of documentaries and development of feature-length fiction projects in its recent schemes announced at the end of July. All together 23 projects will be granted the amount of 21 million Czech crowns (€82,353). The Fund has allocated 12 million Czech crowns…
ANIMARKT Masters 2018 – Beast Animation, Carlos Bleycher, Tim Allen at 2018 Animarkt Workshops
Directing stop motion animation workshop with the Beast Animation studio, character development and storytelling workshop with Carlos Bleycher, character animation workshop with Tim Allen – these are the workshops of this year’s ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. Workshops are free, but the number of participants is limited. One of the essential…
Programming innovations for MIDPOINT TV Launch 2019
MIDPOINT TV Launch being prepared for 2019 with new additions MIDPOINT TV Launch is now open to submissions and preparing for its 2019 edition with a number of new and exciting additions. Evaluating the previous history of the program and presenting its future outline is the Program Coordinator Katarina Tomkova.…
A director of Dawn, Latvia’s official entry for Oscar consideration, will teach at the Film Spring Workshop
Laila Pakalnina, a renowned Latvian film director and screenwriter will come to Krakow, Poland in October to tutor the documentary group at the Film Spring Workshop. This will be the 13th edition of the audiovisual training which offers lectures, workshops, film screenings and meetings with artists as well as access…
MY UNKNOWN SOLDIER: A new documentary film following the events of the 1968 Soviet invasion to Czechoslovakia is told from the perspective of an occupier, the title’s Unknown Soldier
In August 2018, the Czech Republic and Slovakia commemorate the 50th anniversary of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact army into Czechoslovakia, justified by the Soviet political elite as the suppression of a counter-revolution taking place in the country. This important point in the history is presented from an unusual…
