For the fifth year in a row, Europa Distribution is hosting a distribution workshop in the scope of the Sofia Meetings of the Sofia International Film Festival. About 25 independent distributors members of the network will participate in this workshop, “Building Audiences from the Ground Up” and the Sofia Meetings activities.
WARSAW: Film New Europe has teamed up with the upcoming Cannes Marche Du Film and the Producers Workshop to promote Central and Eastern European producers during Cannes.
BUDAPEST: According to the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH), the country saw an average of 250 cinema and television films produced with a production value of almost HUF 46 billion in the period between 2010-2014 in Hungary.
Joshua Oppenheimer wins again: The Look of Silence named Best Film at One World 2015
Festivals 09-03-2015Prague, 9 March 2015 – The juries of the 17th annual One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival granted eight awards, which will be presented during the closing ceremony of the festival in the Lucerna cinema in Prague on Wednesday, March 11. The award for Best Film this year went to The Look of Silence by American director Joshua Oppenheimer, who took home the same award at One World 2013 for his film The Act of Killing. Both documentaries deal with the same topic: the mass murder of accused communists in Indonesia in the 1960s.
PRAGUE: The fourth edition of East Doc Platform, which ran from 2 to 8 March 2015, has come to a close. The Golden Funnel Award was given to the Estonian project Working on Title by Aleksandr Kheyfets. Yorinde Segal presented the IDFA Forum Award to the new project of Bulgarian documentarists Vesela Kazakova and Milna Mileva, The Beast is Still Alive.
The following production and development grants were announced by the National Film Centre on 9 March 2015 as the results of the second grant contest of 2014.
PRAGUE: The juries of the 17th annual One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival have granted eight awards. Best Film 2015 went to The Look of Silence by American director Joshua Oppenheimer. The Czech Radio prize for innovative use of music and sound went to German/Polish coproduction The Queen of Silence, coproduced in Poland by Odra Film.
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Promising Documentary Projects are Being Fine -tuned in Prague, East Doc Platform Has Begun
Press releases 04-03-2015Directors and producers of 10 East and Central European creative documentary projects that succeeded in a tough competition of more than 200 applicants came to Prague on Monday, to take part in the 15th East European Forum workshop and pitching within the region’s key documentary industry event, East Doc Platform.
15th goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden: Symposium Explores Legendary Producer Artur Brauner's Life's Work Between East and West
Festivals 03-03-2015Films like ANASTASIA: THE CZAR'S LAST DAUGHTER and THE GOOD SOLDIER SCHWEJK were huge hits at the box office in West Germany of the 1950's and 60's; EUROPA EUROPA provoked heated debates in the 1990's.
