BELGRADE: Belgrade Escape by Wang Zhongyan, the first Serbian/Chinese coproduction, started shooting in Belgrade on 26 July 2018. The film is a coproduction between Chinese Fujian Broken Films and Serbian Emote Films, and is budgeted at around 1.5 m EUR.
WARSAW : Polish sales agent New Europe Film Sales has acquired Asaf Saban’s Israeli/Polish/German coproduction The Delegation which is still in development. 
MOTOVUN: Laura Mora’s Killing Jesus (Colombia, Argentina) was awarded Propeller of Motovun for Best Film at the 21st edition of Motovun Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Doc Alliance award in Cannes, Croatian documentary Srbenka by Nebojša Slijepčević had its domestic premiere in Motovun and received a Special Mention.
FESTIVALS: Sarajevo’s CineLink 2018 Announces Work in Progress Selection
Bosnia-Herzegovina 27-07-2018SARAJEVO: Eight feature films and two documentaries have been selected in the Sarajevo Film Festival's CineLink co-production market Work in Progress section. The list includes projects from Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. Sarajevo Film Festival will take place from 10 to 17 August 2018.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Martin Horyna: There Is Still a Reason to Separate Documentary Films
Czech Republic 27-07-2018Click HERE to read an interview with documentary film expert Martin Horyna, member of the Programme Department at the Karlovy Vary IFF and one of the three main persons selecting documentary films each year.
GDYNIA: Legal Culture Foundation and the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia are launching a video competition for one-minute films made using a camera, the phone or an animated technique.
Get inspired by the history of the Lumière brothers and make a spot of honesty in culture! The Legal Culture Foundation and the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia announce a film competition that promotes the fair use of culture as one of the foundations of functioning in the digital world. The authors of the most interesting minute films will receive financial prizes and the opportunity to gain new experiences on a professional film set.Get inspired by the history of the Lumière brothers and make a spot of honesty in culture! The Legal Culture Foundation and the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia announce a film competition that promotes the fair use of culture as one of the foundations of functioning in the digital world. The authors of the most interesting minute films will receive financial prizes and the opportunity to gain new experiences on a professional film set.
Culture changes the world and people for the better. However, today it needs support itself, especially in the reality of digital technologies. They are used not only by honest people, but also by those who make money on the work of others in a dishonest way. We invite you to participate in the competition, the aim of which is to indicate the appropriate attitudes of participation in culture and the promotion of drawing from it only from legal sources - for the benefit of creators, but also listeners, readers and viewers.
To enter the competition, you do not have to be a professional creator. Spot can be realized using a camera, a mobile phone or prepare an animation. What counts is creativity and the ability to reach the recipient with the message and make it reflect. The only limitation is time: the spot can last a maximum of one minute. Contrary to appearances, it is very much. This is what the Lumière brothers 'film "Workers' exit from the factory" lasted, the premiere of which in 1895 is considered the beginning of cinema history.
The spots, having the character of a copyright work, may be submitted by natural or legal persons as well as by teams of creators. All materials used in the spot - music, films, photos, books, illustrations, games and other - must come from legal sources and may not infringe on the copyrights and personal rights of third parties. The submitted works will be judged by the jury during the 43. Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia, which will award the following prizes:
• 1st prize: PLN 5,000
• 2nd prize: PLN 2,500
• 3rd prize: PLN 1,500
In addition, the winners will be able to try their hand at the film set of Polish feature production. The awarded films will also be presented as official spots of Legal Culture as part of educational programs, during film festivals and other cultural events, on websites and on social media sites of Legal Culture and in the media.
The deadline for submitting films is September 13, 2018. The results of the competition will be announced during the Young Gala of the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia on September 21, 2018.
The competition regulations and application documents are available HERE.
Click HERE for Polish version.
PRODUCTION: Czech Director Julius Ševčík’s The Glass Room with International Cast Wraps Shooting
Czech Republic 26-07-2018PRAGUE: Czech/Slovak coproduction The Glass Room, directed by Julius Ševčík, has wrapped shooting. The film stars acclaimed European and Czech actors. Renowned Polish editor Jaroslaw Kaminski (Ida and Cold War, both produced by Opus Film) is editing, while Oscar-nominated Spanish composer Javier Navarrete (Pan’s Labyrinth) will do the score.
Scholarships Available for CEE Professionals at European VoD Meetings - Venice Workshop
Region 26-07-2018VENICE: Professionals from EuroVoD Members and from European countries of low audiovisual production capacity will be given priority for the scholarships provided by the European VoD Meetings- Venice Workshop. The workshop will take place in Venice from 3 to 6 September 2018.
ZAGREB: A new feature film by Croatian director Danilo Šerbedžija, Teresa 33,wrapped shooting in Split on 22 July 2018.
