WARSAW: The Warsaw based Five Flavours festival of Asian films announced it will launch as a distribution label in Poland.

A Czech documentary follows the story of a 1960's Czech female dixieland band that rose to fame in South America.

PRAGUE: Ji.hlava IFF will introduce twelve documentary projects at the 13th edition of DOCU TALENTS @KVIFF on 4 July 2017 at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

PRAGUE: The documentary rough cut workshop dok.incubator is launching a new workshop on distributing documentaries to foreign territories. The workshop is aimed at filmmakers from the Visegrad territories: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.

PRAGUE: Six films projects from among 29 applications have been chosen to participate in the four-day workshop MIDPOINT Intensive @KVIFF.

Barcelona: 19 June 2016 – During a keynote address at CineEurope 2017, UNIC President Phil Clapp has today highlighted the importance of innovation and diversity for the continued success of the European cinema sector.

PRAGUE: Eccho Rights has announced it picked up Czech crime series Murder Squad / Mordparta from commercial TV broadcaster Prima.

As of 20 June 2017, the unique premium Film Europe Channel, presenting the best of European and festival films, has extended its broadcasting to cover the Netherlands and Belgium. Furthermore, the SVOD service will be also be provided to the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Film Europe Channel has thus become the first Quality TV channel in the world to solely offer European films in the traditional linear television form, as well as within the modern SVOD distribution version. Moreover, it is the very first film TV channel established in Eastern Europe and launching its own distribution network in Western Europe. The Film Europe Channel’s exclusive partner for the Benelux countries is M7 Group, with its distribution platforms Canal Digitaal and TV Vlaanderen.

PRAGUE: The Prague and Bratislava based powerhouse Film Europe Media Company will launch its Film Europe Channel in Belgium and the Netherlands on 20 June 2017, making it the first film TV channel established in CEE to launch its own distribution network in Western Europe.