Application deadline for 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM) has been extended to 15 September. 3DFM is an international financing market fully dedicated to projects with stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) content from all over the world. The objective of our market is to facilitate financing of stereoscopic-3D film content. Participation is open for everyone interested in producing 3D content or willing to join an existing project. 3DFM will take place for the third time on 4-5 December 2013 in Liège, Belgium.

ZADAR: Juries at the 4th Avvantura fest Film Forum in Zadar were closely monitoring world art film work 24-30 August at Croatia's up-and-coming fest founded by director Sergej Stanojkovski.

NEW PHILADELPHIA: Filmmakers for Czech TV recounting the life of Moravian missionary David Zeisberger for Vistafilm are exploring Tuscarawas County, Pennsylvania currently, shooting in places connected with his life, including many Moravian churches still holding services today.

BRATISLAVA: Distributor Film Europe has picked Czech and Slovak rights for Venice Golden Lion 2013 winner Sacro Gra, a nuanced study of the hidden lives that reside along Rome's ring road, the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA, by Gianfranco Rosi.

FNE asks Europe’s leading film professionals how Innovation can help to build new audiences for European film especially in the central and eastern European region.  Next Up: We speak to Jozko Rutar head of the Slovenian Film Centre, Pascal Diot head of Venice Film Market and Doris Pack Chair of the EU committee on Culture and Education.

Prague: Director Ivo Bystrican takes a creative view of the morass that is the system for getting around the Czech Republic in Under (the) Construction, a film examining the trauma facing a 72-year-old engineer whose final project, a short stretch of the D8 motorway to Berlin, is held up for years in legal tangles.

FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face - especially in the transition to digitalization. We choose a distributor from each country covered by FNE each month. We look at the challenges and the successes faced by those distributors who are members of Europa Distribution with a special series of interviews that offer insights that other distributors of European films can benefit from and a platform for the exchange of ideas.

Prague: MIDPOINT, an international educational project aimed at supporting talent and development in European screenwriting, culminated at Prague's FAMU film school this weekend with honors for best projects.

 

Pitch It!
This year, Jihlava IDFF will host a presentation by Sibylle Kurz, an expert in the art of pitching. Her talk will take place as part of the programme for documentary film producers called Emerging Producers. An event will also be held to celebrate the official release of the Czech translation of her book Pitch It, a publication valuable not only to film professionals as it conveys, among other things, a universal message regarding effective pitching skills. The book is published by AMU Press.