The annual awards of the Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) symbolized by the statuettes of the Czech Lion will head off to the hands of film makers on Saturday 6th March 2021 in Dvořák’s Hall of Prague’s Rudolfinum for the twenty-eighth time. The Czech Television will traditionally broadcast the ceremonial gala evening live for their audience at CT1 channel at 20:10 pm. The host of the gala evening will be Václav Kopta for the third time. The time proven trio of the supervising director Marek Najbrt, the director of the gala evening Michael Čech and the stage designer Martin Chocholoušek will again keep a tight yet creative enough rein on the evening.
The Czech Lion enters its 28th year with the visual by the Formaat studio. The nominations for the awards of the Czech Film and Television Academy for the year of 2020 will be announced on 18th January 2021. The voting of the members of the academy started last week. You can find more information on the website www.ceskylev.cz.
PRAGUE: Long documentaries in the rough-cut stage are eligible to apply for the dok.incubator workshop 2021 until 27 January 2021.
TALLINN: Two French films won the top awards at the 2020 Just Film festival of children's films, which was held under the banner of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Slalom by Charlène Favier won the Grand Prix from the international jury, and The Fantastic Journey of Margot & Marguerite directed by Pierre Coré won the Best Film Award from the children’s jury.
Feature film productions supported by the Polish Film Insitute in the 3rd session of 2020
LJUBLJANA: The Serbian short film Mud Chronicles by Vuk Palibrk won the ;DASF Audience Award and a prize of 1,000 EUR at the awards ceremony of the 17th edition of Animateka International Animated Film Festival on 6 December 2020. The festival took place in an online format.
This week True Story, a collaborative project between the Institute of Documentary Film and Film New Europe, speaks to Czech documentary maker Martin Pav, who speaks about his documentary Wolves at the Borders.
GDYNIA: The Hater by Polish director Jan Komasa, a cyber thriller and the follow up to his box office hit feature debut Suicide Room, screens in the main competition of the Gdynia Polish Film Festival, taking place online 8 – 12 December 2020.
The grand opening of the 17th edition of Animateka 2020 International Animated Film Festival will happen on Monday 30/11/2020, at 20:00.
After the festival opening, we invite you to our festival platform, to watch a special opening programme of animated shorts selected by this year’s international jury, plus an opening film selected by the festival team. The programme will be available after the opening ceremony.
You can follow the opening on our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/animateka/posts/3164329593672030
Or on the festival platform: https://online.animateka.si/start/play/5fb965c77e42d200b46b0e4b/5fb9661d8dc93811c2c8cf1f
And you can watch the OPENING PROGRAMME here: https://bit.ly/39nEctp=SI
Call for all
Works-in-Progress & Workshops:
EXTENDED DEADLINE!
After closing the call for the Co-production Forum, WEMW offers the last chance to apply to one of the many initiatives included in this special 2021 edition: from the Works-in-Progress for feature fiction films and the Fine-Cut-Session for creative documentaries, to a lab for films in editing phase and a programme for producers aspiring to shift to TV series content.
You still have few more days left to check out all our events and find the one that suits you best!
