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EEFA: Legal and Distribution Matters Workshop

Between November 25 - 28, EEFA Training Network is organizing the fourth and last workshop of this year, Legal and Distribution Matters Workshop in Tallinn, in partnership with PÖFF Black Nights Film Festival. The teams of the seven documentary and eight fiction features from European and Non-European countries, will benefit…
22-11-2011

HBO Central Europe to produce second season of top rating show În derivă / In Treatment in Romania

HBO Central Europe to produce second season of top rating show În derivă / In Treatment in Romania Bucharest, November 22nd, 2011 - HBO Central Europe will start production of the second season of În derivă / In Treatment early next year. The half-hour drama series, which airs five nights…
22-11-2011

CALL FOR PROJECTS: EAST EUROPEAN FORUM, DOC LAUNCH PRESENTATION and PROJECT MARKET

Are you trying to get funding for your documentary film in development? Do you want to find distribution for your rough cut? The East European Forum will help you to get financial support for your documentary project! The Doc Launch Presentation will support your documentary films in post-production. Would you…
21-11-2011

Open call for the projects for Dragon Forum 2012!

Open call for the projects for Dragon Forum 2012! Shake the drawer of your documentary dreams and let them come true! International Academy of Document Dragon Forum opens call for 2012 year edition. The schedule of Dragon Forum 2012:· script session in Warsaw, from 24th till 27th of January ·…
21-11-2011

European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 cooperates with Black Nights Film Festival

TALLINN 2011 PRESS RELEASE16 November 2011 European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 cooperates with Black Nights Film Festival The 15th Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and Tallinn 2011 present during this year’s festival a new international animation training event and films by world’s top directors. AnimaCampus Tallinn is a brand…
21-11-2011

From the Warsaw Film Festival to an Oscar®

Warsaw Film Festival joined the Academy Award® film festival list. This means that the winner of the Grand Prix in the WFF's Short Films Competition will have the right to compete for the Oscar® for best short film. The organizers of the Warsaw Film Festival have received a memo to…
16-11-2011

Projects qualified for the Session in Moscow!

The call for Polish Academy of Document in Moscow has ended. We received many submissions, so the choice was not easy. Congratulations to the authors of selected projects! 15 projects were selected, because of very interesting subjects. They were chosen among 36 others from different regions of Russia: from Vladivostok,…
09-11-2011

Zero in German – Czech – Hungarian co-production

Zero, the new feature film project by Gyula Nemes (Lost World, the Best Short Documentary in Karlovy Vary 2008 and My One and Onlies in competition in Venice Critics' Week 2006) is going to made in German - Czech - Hungarian coproduction. The project is supported by the Czech Motion…
09-11-2011

Slovak Films - November News

Bratislava IFF Presenting Slovak films In its 16th edition, Bratislava International Film Festival (Nov. 4-9, 2011) traditionally presents Slovak films: Besides the films screened within the International Competition of First and Second Films, the Panorama section and the Filmmaker's Tribute section, the Slovak full-length and short films produced in the…
07-11-2011

POFF Newsletter 2011 # 5: Competition Films Announced, Oscar winning studio comes to Animated Dreams

Competition films announced for 15th Black Nights Film Festival! The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), which runs from 18th to 30th November 2011, has announced its full competition programmes. From established names to debut features, from festival hits to new discoveries, the competitions at PÖFF promise to deliver the very…
04-11-2011

Session of Polish Academy of Document starts in Minsk!

The second session of Polish Academy of Document organized in the framework of the cultural program of Poland’s presidency in EU is taking place in Minsk between 8th and 12th November during the IFF Listapad. We propose the workshops for young filmmakers, which will be conducted by renowned tutors: Krystian…
04-11-2011

The curtain falls on the 1st International Short Film Festival of Cyprus

(Rialto Theatre, Limassol) Press Release No. 6 After a successful eight-day run, the curtain fell on the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus on Saturday, October 22, at Rialto Theatre. The Festival hosted films and filmmakers from around the world and attracted the interest of short film lovers. The first…
03-11-2011

Winners 15TH IDFF JIHLAVA

During the Closing Ceremony, which was televised live on ČT24, the awards of the 15th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival were presented. CZECH JOY2011 Best Czech Documentary FilmThe jury recognized the film Solar Eclipse (Czech Republic, 2011) by Martin Mareček for "its surprising and impressive capturing of the Czech development…
01-11-2011

AWARD WINNING FILMMAKERS, ACTORS AND INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS MAKE UP THE JURIES FOR THE 15th BLACK NI

The juries for the 15th Black Nights Film Festival promise to bring debate and intensity to their careful scrutiny of competition films as they head to Tallinn, Estonia between 16th and 30th October 2011. Jury members include Sergei Loznitsa, the director of the hugely praised My Joy which won the…
31-10-2011

Management of Film Production Workshop

Documentary and Fiction Feature Projects Between October 27 - 31, EEFA Training Network is organizing the third workshop of this year, Management of Film Production Workshop in Kyiv, in partnership with Molodist International Film Festival. After two workshops dedicated to the craft of scriptwriting for seven documentary and eight fiction…
27-10-2011

Argentinean Lesson" Awarded with the Silver Dove Prize in Leipzig

"Argentinean Lesson" by Wojciech Staron got the Silver Dove Prize at the prestigious 54. DOK Leipzig in Germany. It's been the film's international premiere. "Argentinean Lesson" has been produced by the Staron Film and TVP1. The film's visual aesthetics, its rhythm and composition parallel a narration of a fiction film,…
23-10-2011

'IT FEELS LIKE WE WERE IN CANNES’ - JAMESON CINEFEST'S MEDIA ECHO

‘2011 will be remembered as the year of the turning point in the history of the festival: it became visible in the map of the great European film festivals’ says the article of László Valuska on index.hu, Hungary's leading and most popular online magazine. The 8th Miskolc International Film Festival…
21-10-2011

POLISH FILMS AT 47th CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL.

The Chicago International Film Festival lineup includes Polish films and co-productions supported by the Polish Film Institute. Festival runs October 6 through 20, 2011. KRET (The Mole) IN MAIN COMPETITION “The Mole” is a feature debut of Rafael Lewandowski and will represent Polish cinema in the Main Competition of Chicago…
18-10-2011

Joint Project of the Tbilisi Assembly and the Georgian National Film Center

On October 8 the awards ceremony of the literary prize "Gala 2011" was held in the garden of Georgian National Museum. Maka Kukulava's project "Ada's Cinema" won in the nomination "The Best Script of the Year". Maka Kukulava is 28. In 2011 she graduated her MA course at Shota Rustaveli…
14-10-2011

Industry Days – Crucial, informative and exciting debates for the industry @ PÖFF

This year's Industry Days, to be held between 29-30 November as part of the Black Market, are shaping up to provide some crucial and informative debates about the different strategies and film industry models implemented across the world. We'll be welcoming some special guests, amongst them the British Film Insitute's…
14-10-2011