TALLINN: Estonian Sten-Kristian Saluveer was one of the organisers of this year’s European Film Forum during the Tallinn Black Nights Festival and Baltic Event 2016.

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Audiovisual Fund distributed 3,780,000 EUR in production grants in 2016.

Yesterday evening the Baltic Event Co-Production market awards were presented at a ceremony in Tallinn Town Hall. We also have the pleasure of announcing the winners of the Game Jam held at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event.

PRAGUE: Happy End directed by Jan Saska is on the shortlist of ten films vying for the Oscar in the Animated Shorts category.

WARSAW: HBO Europe is ramping up its move into original series production in CEE with the start of production on the new series Blinded by the Lights and the second season of The Pack / Wataha in Poland.

IDF makes its annual appearance at IDFA.

November is really festival-busy-month and we are truly delighted that “the cold November rain” warmed up for Slovak films and prepared for them swish premieres!

 

The first awards at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event have been presented – the Works in Progress awards. We are also happy to announce the honorary award that Eye on Films has presented at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. 

STRASBOURG: European screenwriters and directors have called on the European Parliament to ensure the EU copyright reform proposals ensure that authors are fairly remunerated for their work and that there is better support for the circulation and promotion of European audiovisual works.