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MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia - Project Selection Announced

The MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia Selection We are pleased to announce the selection of 4 projects for our first MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia workshop aimed at Serbian film professionals. The projects will participate in a 4-day workshop in Belgrade starting on April 29, 2018. A big thanks goes to our dear partner …
11-04-2018

Ex Oriente Film: the deadline is approaching

Ex Oriente Film call for applications is closing on April 24, 2018. If you have documentary project in development or early production stage, you can submit it using our online application form (applying is free of charge and is only available in English). Also, if you know about interesting projects…
11-04-2018

Visegrad Film Forum 2018

The 7th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) with a five-day programme full of master classes with renowned experts, runs from April 17 – 21 with the leading topic of film image. Among the guests you find names such as Slawomir Idziak, Polish DoP who was nominated for an Academy Award as…
10-04-2018

The Sun in a Net 2018 Awards

The Slovak Film and Television Academy (SFTA) granted the Slovak national film awardsThe Sun in a Net 2018 on Friday, April 6. The most awarded film was The Line (d. Peter Bebjak) which won six prizes including the one for Best Fiction Film. Documentarian Robert Kirchhoff won Best documentary for…
10-04-2018

How To Sell a War, Principal Photography has begun on Film and Music Entertainment (IRE)

Principal Photography has begun on Film and Music Entertainment (IRE), How To Sell a War, produced by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor and directed by Rudolph Herzog. Top US cast attached as Jay Pharaoh joins line-up which already includes Katherine Parkinson and Lily Newmark . Fame has boosted its 2017/18…
09-04-2018

dok.incubator publishes selected projects for its 2018 edition

dok.incubator has just announced the final selection of talented filmmakers whose projects will be supported in 2018. dok.incubator is a well-established rough-cut stage workshop that is unique in its format and impact on filmmakers. Its aim each year is to offer individual mentorship for eight documentary projects with a focus…
03-04-2018

dok.incubator publishes selected projects for its 2018 edition

dok.incubator has just announced the final selection of talented filmmakers whose projects will be supported in 2018. dok.incubator is a well-established rough-cut stage workshop that is unique in its format and impact on filmmakers. Its aim each year is to offer individual mentorship for eight documentary projects with a focus…
29-03-2018

East Silver 2018: Call for Submissions

East Silver, a documentary market specialized in Eastern and Central European documentary film, is open for submissions. Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe. Application deadlines for the 15th edition: Submission deadline for films produced in…
29-03-2018

Eurimages to Support Croatian Co-production Mare by Andrea Štaka

Within the context of Eurimages’ Strategy for Gender Equality in the Film Industry, aiming to implement equality in the number of applied and approved projects by male and female authors (i.e. 50/50 by 2020), it was announced at the 150th meeting that 30% of approved projects are by female directors.…
28-03-2018

A-list filmmakers are heading to Slovakia!

In just a month the 7th edition of Visegrad Film Forum will host silver screen art director, editor and cinematographer with many others. Between 17th and 21st of April the Film and TV Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava will become a place for uncovering the secrets of…
22-03-2018

First results of groundbreaking study on EU audio-visual authors remuneration: a wake-up call

A median audio-visual author in Europe earns €18,000 from their work after tax, with an additional €2,000 coming from secondary payments including CMOs. As the Copyright Directive discussions have entered a crucial phase in the European Parliament and Council, FERA and FSE call on EU policy-makers to take a stand…
21-03-2018

Negligible representation of women in the film sector

Yesterday the Slovenian Film Centre, a public agency of the Republic of Slovenia (the SFC), organised an international consultation entitled "Women in the Film Sector: a Gender Issue" in the context of the 20th Documentary Film Festival. The event took place in the Lili Novy club at the Cankarjev Dom…
21-03-2018

EFP Announces selected films for new programme THE CHANGING FACE OF EUROPE at Hot Docs, Toronto

What moves people in Europe? What triggers and lies beneath the manifold changes in the political, social and economical landscape? For a better understanding and insight into the rapidly evolving processes affecting Europe today EFP (European Film Promotion) in collaboration with Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival (April 26…
20-03-2018

The 7th EFA Young Audience Award Includes Record 45 Cities in 36 Countries

Young Juries Across Europe Screen Nominated Films GIRL IN FLIGHT, HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION and WALLAY – all of which will then be available as VOD for the general public The European Film Academy (EFA) proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2018: GIRL IN FLIGHT …
20-03-2018

Support decisions at the 150th Eurimages’ Board of Management meeting

Co-production support - Strasbourg, 19.03.2018 - At its 150th meeting held from 13 to 16 March 2018 in Yerevan, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 17 fiction, 1 documentary and 2 animation film projects for a total amount of €5,103,561.
19-03-2018

Happy Go Hopscotch

Kinomind Films and Meta Media Entertainment is delighted to announce that their new Christmas special Hopscotch and the Christmas Tree has been greenlit and will be delivered in time for a Christmas 2018 broadcast.
19-03-2018

Macedonian Film Agency to Support 16 Festivals in 2018

SKOPJE: Macedonian Film Agency announced a decision on 16 March 2018 to financially boost 16 festivals according to the announced Call for financing projects of national interest in the film industry for organizing domestic festivals and other film manifestations of international character in 2018.
19-03-2018

The 2018 Call for Entries is now open

A new generation of creative documentary filmmakers and artists heads to ARISTOTELES WORKSHOP every year for a 5-week filmmaking boot camp experience. Artistic characters ensue, since 2006. Their output landed and won on the festival circuit: Quinzaine des Realisateurs at the Cannes Film Festival, Locarno International Film Festival, Dok Leipzig,…
15-03-2018

EMERGING PRODUCERS 2019, 7th Edition

October 25 –29, 2018 / 22nd Ji.hlava IDFF / Czech Republic;February 4 – 8, 2019 / Berlin / Germany
13-03-2018

East Doc Platform Awarded Best Documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe

Organized by the Institute of Documentary Film, the EAST DOC PLATFORM – the largest event for documentary filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe – took place for the seventh time. From March 3 to 9, Prague hosted 350 film professionals from around the world. This unique event allows filmmakers to…
12-03-2018