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Applications now open worldwide for the 4th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency
TETA Association has launched the 4th edition of Pustnik Screenwriters Residency, which will take place between 09-17 September 2018, at Port Cetate, Romania. Pustnik is the only Romanian initiative of this sort, dedicated to young and emerging filmmakers from all over the world. During this nine-day retreat, eight screenwriters (three…
First Time in the Central and Eastern European Region – Visegrad Animation Forum Gives Space to Projects of Animated Feature Films in Development
The sixth year of the international Visegrad Animation Forum for film professionals will take place on 1st – 3rd May. As a tradition, it will be centred on a pitching competition of animated projects now in development in two categories – short films and series / TV specials. This year's…
VAF Třeboň 2018 Announces Jury Members
Eleven short films in development will participate in the VAF 2018 Třeboň pitching competition. The winning short film project will receive 2,000 EUR. Thanks to the cooperation with the European Animation Development Lab Animation Sans Frontières (ASF), one selected director or producer will receive a scholarship in amount of EUR…
THE FUTURE OF THE CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA PROGRAMME
As organisations working across the European audiovisual sector, and in the context of the discussions surrounding the next Multi-annual Financial Framework, we would like to reiterate our support for the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme, a vital component of the European audiovisual landscape, and call for an ambitious budgetary proposal to…
Visegrad Film Forum 2018 - more than you expect!
Starting on Tuesday, April 17th at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava is this intense event, which can pique the interest of viewers by offering not only big names of worldwide cinematography, classics and specialties of film but also an unmatched film festival…
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018 – Workshop 2 is taking off
MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018 – Workshop 2 is taking off Participants from Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece and Serbia will gather again from April 19 till April 24, this time in the town of Pilsen, Czech Republic. Finale Plzen Film Festival sets the frame for the second out of three…
MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia - Project Selection Announced
The MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia Selection We are pleased to announce the selection of 4 projects for our first MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia workshop aimed at Serbian film professionals. The projects will participate in a 4-day workshop in Belgrade starting on April 29, 2018. A big thanks goes to our dear partner …
Ex Oriente Film: the deadline is approaching
Ex Oriente Film call for applications is closing on April 24, 2018. If you have documentary project in development or early production stage, you can submit it using our online application form (applying is free of charge and is only available in English). Also, if you know about interesting projects…
Visegrad Film Forum 2018
The 7th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) with a five-day programme full of master classes with renowned experts, runs from April 17 – 21 with the leading topic of film image. Among the guests you find names such as Slawomir Idziak, Polish DoP who was nominated for an Academy Award as…
The Sun in a Net 2018 Awards
The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) granted the Slovak national film awardsThe Sun in a Net 2018 on Friday, April 6. The most awarded film was The Line (d. Peter Bebjak) which won six prizes including the one for Best Fiction Film. Documentarian Robert Kirchhoff won Best documentary for…
How To Sell a War, Principal Photography has begun on Film and Music Entertainment (IRE)
Principal Photography has begun on Film and Music Entertainment (IRE), How To Sell a War, produced by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor and directed by Rudolph Herzog. Top US cast attached as Jay Pharaoh joins line-up which already includes Katherine Parkinson and Lily Newmark . Fame has boosted its 2017/18…
dok.incubator publishes selected projects for its 2018 edition
dok.incubator has just announced the final selection of talented filmmakers whose projects will be supported in 2018. dok.incubator is a well-established rough-cut stage workshop that is unique in its format and impact on filmmakers. Its aim each year is to offer individual mentorship for eight documentary projects with a focus…
dok.incubator publishes selected projects for its 2018 edition
dok.incubator has just announced the final selection of talented filmmakers whose projects will be supported in 2018. dok.incubator is a well-established rough-cut stage workshop that is unique in its format and impact on filmmakers. Its aim each year is to offer individual mentorship for eight documentary projects with a focus…
East Silver 2018: Call for Submissions
East Silver, a documentary market specialized in Eastern and Central European documentary film, is open for submissions. Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. Application deadlines for the 15th edition: Submission deadline for films produced in…
Eurimages to Support Croatian Co-production Mare by Andrea Štaka
Within the context of Eurimages’ Strategy for Gender Equality in the Film Industry, aiming to implement equality in the number of applied and approved projects by male and female authors (i.e. 50/50 by 2020), it was announced at the 150th meeting that 30% of approved projects are by female directors.…
A-list filmmakers are heading to Slovakia!
In just a month the 7th edition of Visegrad Film Forum will host silver screen art director, editor and cinematographer with many others. Between 17th and 21st of April the Film and TV Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava will become a place for uncovering the secrets of…
First results of groundbreaking study on EU audio-visual authors remuneration: a wake-up call
A median audio-visual author in Europe earns €18,000 from their work after tax, with an additional €2,000 coming from secondary payments including CMOs. As the Copyright Directive discussions have entered a crucial phase in the European Parliament and Council, FERA and FSE call on EU policy-makers to take a stand…
Negligible representation of women in the film sector
Yesterday the Slovenian Film Centre, a public agency of the Republic of Slovenia (the SFC), organised an international consultation entitled "Women in the Film Sector: a Gender Issue" in the context of the 20th Documentary Film Festival. The event took place in the Lili Novy club at the Cankarjev Dom…
EFP Announces selected films for new programme THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE at Hot Docs, Toronto
What moves people in Europe? What triggers and lies beneath the manifold changes in the political, social and economical landscape? For a better understanding and insight into the rapidly evolving processes affecting Europe today EFP (European Film Promotion) in collaboration with Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26…
The 7th EFA Young Audience Award Includes Record 45 Cities in 36 Countries
Young Juries Across Europe Screen Nominated Films GIRL IN FLIGHT, HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION and WALLAY – all of which will then be available as VOD for the general public The European Film Academy (EFA) proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2018: GIRL IN FLIGHT …
