„TAXI”, BY JAFAR PANAHI – THE GOLDEN BEAR 2015, SCREENING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ROMANIA DURING BUCHAREST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Festivals 12-03-2015The 11th edition of Bucharest International Film Festival will take place between April 20th and 26th at Cinema Studio and Cinema Elvira Popescu.
Virunga, a docu-thriller about mountain gorillas shot in the middle of a war in the Congo, received the most votes from One World audiences and will take home the AVAST Foundation Audience Award.
There's just under three weeks to apply to The Pixel Lab, Power to the Pixel's leading business and project development workshop.
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.
