To all European documentary filmmakers who have a project in the pipeline suitable for the international market and who are interested in networking with peers from Europe and Asia/SEA: send us your application until Friday, 8 May!
Emotion, extreme tension and pleasantly surprising attempts of young filmmakers to revive genre cinema are the main ingredients of this year's TIFF Official Competition (May 29 – June 7). 12 films will compete this year for the Transilvania Trophy – five are debut features and seven are made by second time directors – and they come from countries such as Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Iceland, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain and the USA.
In a truly European vote, 12-14-year-olds in 25 European cities have elected THE INVISIBLE BOY by Gabriele Salvatores (Italy) as the winner of the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2015.
FNE at Cannes 2015: Party and Screening Alert: Wednesday 13 May and Thursday 14 May
Region 13-05-2015Party and Event Alert
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director/producer Katarina Kerekesova is working on The Websters, a 13-part animated TV series about a family of spiders for children and parents.
ZAGREB: The Zagreb Film Festival has announced the open call for the My First Script workshop taking place during the Festival which takes place 14-22 November 2015.
Wednesday 13 May
SOFIA: Award-winning Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov will go into production with his second film in July 2015, I Want to Be Like You, a Danish/UK/Belgian/Bulgarian coproduction which features an international cast that includes Klaus Maria Brandauer.
TREBON: Spanish director Sam Conflictivos won the Anifilm Grand Jury Prize in the competition of animated films for adults for his claymation film Possessed and the special recognition went to Signe Baumane for Latvian/US film Rocks in My Pockets at the closing ceremony on 9 May 2015.
TREBON: Speaking at a panel consisting of TV broadcaster from across the CEE region, representatives from the public broadcasting channels in Slovakia and Slovenia said that recent new sources of funding for animation have resulted in the return of domestic content to their screens.
