PRODUCTION: Slovak Schengen Story Looks East for Partners

BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer Wanda Adamik Hrycová (Colette) of Wandal Production is in development with Schengen Story directed by Peter Bebjak.
04-11-2014

FESTIVALS: Bratislava IFF Spotlights Slovak Films

BRATISLAVA: Six Slovak films will screen in the Made in Slovakia section of the Bratislava IFF running 7-14 November 2014.
03-11-2014

FESTIVALS: Nine Films Compete in Bratislava

BRATISLAVA: A Czech film and a Slovak-Czech coproduction are among the films screening in the 16th Bratislava IFF competition of first and second films.
31-10-2014

Spotlight on Slovak Film

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Film Instutute has organised a special panorama of Slovak film to be presented at the Molodist IFF (25 October-2 November 2014) in Kiev.
28-10-2014

Love in Your Soul Sets Slovak Box Record

BRATISLAVA: A new Slovak fairytale Love in Your Soul/Láska na Vlásku directed by Mariana Čengel Solčanská has had the best opening weekend for a domestic feature film in the last…
20-10-2014

Be2Can Takes Off in Czech Republic and Slovakia

BRATISLAVA: The first edition of Be2Can (6-15 October 2014) is showing the best of the best from Berlin, Venice and Cannes. Be2Can takes place in cinemas, on Video-On-Demand at O2…
06-10-2014

Slovak IGRIC Awards Winners

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Film Union, Literary Fund and Union of Slovak Television Creators (IGRIC) have announced their annual awards for the best Slovak films of the year. The IGRIC is…
30-09-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Jihlava IFF's Emerging Producers 2015

JIHLAVA: The Jihlava IFF, which takes place 23-28 October 2014, has announced the first participants for the Emerging Producers Workshop 2015.
26-09-2014

Slovak Doc 38 Tops Box Office in Record Opening

BRATISLAVA: Director Daniel Dangl's new doc 38 about the Slovak ice-hockey legend Pavol Demitra, has topped the Slovak box office reaching record numbers of spectators. With nearly 50,000 admissions in…
23-09-2014

OBITUARY: Eminent Slovak journalist and Dissident Angesa Kalinova

BRATISLAVA: Journalist and writer Angesa Kalinova died at the age of 90 on the morning of 18 September 2014 after a long illness.
22-09-2014

FESTIVALS: Cinematik Film Festival 2014 Winners

PIESTANY: Chosen by a panel of seventeen European critics, Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty won the Meeting Point Europe Award at the Cinematik IFF this year.
17-09-2014

FESTIVALS: Nine Films Compete at Cinematik

BRATISLAVA: Veiko Õunpuu’s Free Range is among the nine films competing in the Meeting Point Europe section of the 9th edition of Cinematik IFF taking place 10-14 September 2014.
01-09-2014

Kinocola Launches VOD in Slovakia

BRATISLAVA: Kinocola, a new VOD platform, was launched in Slovakia on 22 July 2014. The platform is the creation of producer Peter Nedvedal of Filmpark and co-founder Jana Klukova.
23-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Slovak Czech Tattooist in Development

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak producer Zuzana Mistrikova of PubRes is developing director Martin Repka’s second feature film The Tattooist (Kerkar) for a fall 2015 shoot.
21-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Five Year Okhwan Doc Nears End of Journey

KARLOVY VARY: Director/producer Marek Mackovic is in postproduction with his debut film Okhwan, Mission Impossible, a road movie documentary about a South Korean bicycling the world.
17-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Ostrochovsky Fiction Debut Goat

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak documentary director Ivan Ostrochovsky will make his feature fiction debut with a Slovak/Czech road-movie drama lightened by quirky touches, Goat.
09-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Fornay Preps Absurdist Drama

KARLOVY VARY: Award-winning Slovak director Mira Fornay, who is serving on the main jury at the Karlovy Vary IFF, is in preproduction with Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs with No Tongues)…
09-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Minac Preps Hybrid Fellini Comedy

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak director Matej Mináč in in preproduction with Never Give Up, a hybrid fiction/documentary comedy about a film that was never made.
07-07-2014

Way Out Wins at Art Film Fest

TRENCIANSKE TEPLICE: Petr Vaclav’s The Way Out won the main prize of the 22nd Art Film Fest which returned to its home base in the small Slovak spa resort after…
04-07-2014

FNE Coproduction Meeting at KVIFF 2014: Case Study: I, Olga Hepnarova

PRAGUE: The Czech/Polish/Slovak coproduction I, Olga Hepnarova will move into postproduction after two final days of shooting in the Slovak Tatra Mountains in August 2014, with plans to have the…
02-07-2014