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FESTIVALS: Applications Open for Cyprus Film Days

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-11-11

LIMASSOL: The 2020 edition of Cyprus Film Days is accepting applications until 6 January 2020.

FESTIVALS: International Short Film Festival of Cyprus 2019 Announces Competition Films

Antigoni Tasiou Cyprus 2019-10-04

LIMASSOL: The 9th International Short Film Festival Competition will take place in Limassol at the Rialto Theatre 12 to 18 October 2019 with a multi-dimensional programme of films from 38…

Cypriot Film Pause Selected As Candidate for EFA Nomination

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-09-18

NICOSIA: Tonia Mishiali’s Cypriot/Greek coproduction Pause / Pafsi is among the five feature films and six documentaries announced by the European Film Academy as additional candidates for an EFA nomination.

PRODUCTION: Cypriot Director Paul Lambis in Casting with Drama 74

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-09-09

NICOSIA: Paul Lambis is currently in casting with 74, a feature film based on his original theatrical production under the same name. The English-language drama about the Turkish invasion of…

Hollywood Producers Visit Cyprus

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-08-02

PAPHOS: Hollywood producers who visited Paphos recently declared to be interested in the possibility of a film studio being built in this city of Cyprus.

Summer Edition of Animattikon Project to Be Held in Paphos

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-07-30

PAPHOS: Summer edition of the Animattikon Project, featuring a series of animation workshops for children will take place in Paphos, Cyprus from 6 to 11 August 2019. The event is…

SEE CINEMA Launches Short Fiction Films Contest

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-07-15

NICOSIA: South Eastern European Cinema Network (SEE) is launching a contest for short fiction films. Exclusively national productions of a SEE CINEMA member-state (Cyprus, Greece, Serbia, Albania, Republic of North …

Film and TV Projects Approved for Incentives in Cyprus

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-07-01

NICOSIA: Several productions have been approved for incentives or already applied for incentives in Cyprus, where the cash rebate of up to 35 percent on qualifying expenditures was launched in…

PRODUCTION: Nicolas Cage and William Baldwin Shoot in Cyprus

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-06-20

NICOSIA: Nicolas Cage stars in Jiu Jitsu by Greek-American director and producer Dimitri Logothetis, the first international production to be shot entirely in Cyprus since the launch in 2018 of…

FNE Market Analysis 2018: CYPRUS

Iulia Blaga Cyprus 2019-04-26

NICOSIA: The Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus made great efforts in 2018 to expand the country’s activities in various aspects concerning the cinema, including film production, film education…

FESTIVALS: Smuggling Hendrix Wins Cyprus Film Days

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-04-23

LIMASSOL: Marios Piperides’ film Smuggling Hendrix is the unsurprising winner of both the national competition and the Audience Award at the 17th Cyprus Film Days International Festival, which concluded on…

GRANTS: Cyprus Announces Grants for 2018-2019

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-04-10

NICOSIA: The Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture allotted 4,484,000 EUR for the production of 10 low budget feature films and two documentaries in 2018-2019 on the recommendation of the…

Nicolas Cage in Inconceivable by Jonathan Baker (2017)

PRODUCTION: Nicolas Cage Stars in First International Production to Be Shot in Cyprus Since Launch of Cyprus Cash Rebates

FNE Staff Cyprus 2019-04-08

NICOSIA: The science fiction martial arts film Jiu Jitsu directed by Dimitri Logothetis and starring Nicolas Cage is set to be shot entirely in Cyprus. This is the first international…