Kino Pavasaris showed support for the Busan Film Festival during opening ceremony
Festivals 03-04-2016Thursday evening saw the start of the 21st Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris, hosted at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. The biggest celebration of cinema will bring more than 200 select films and as many international guests to Lithuania. Kino Pavasaris also joined other film festivals around the world in sending a public message of support for the Busan International Film Festival.
HISTORIC FIRST IN ROMANIAN ANIMATION: “Mercy Street” is the first 3D animation feature film, made with a 100% Romanian technique
Press releases 01-04-2016After four years of big investments and hard work, Opal Production studio completed “Mercy Street” movie, the first 3D animationfeature made in Romania with astereoscopic animation technique, 100% autochthonous, developed by Ştefan andAlexandru (Ducu) Buzea, the film director and respectively the character designer and animator.
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PRAGUE: Eight partner schools, from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Romania and Montenegro, are involved in the 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF), which will take place 5-9 April 2016. The main topic of this year’s VFF is audience development and film literacy.
The Estonian Film Institute announced production grants for films to be made on the occasion of the Republic of Estonia’s 100th anniversary in 2018.
In 2016, the 2nd KineDok offers fifteen European documentaries and brings site specific screenings also to new audiences in Poland and Norway.
Film? We take it seriously! Visegrad Film Forum starts in a less than a week!
Press releases 31-03-2016The 5th Visegrad Film Forum (VFF) is less than a week away. Five days full of master classes with renowned experts as one of the most awarded young Polish filmmaker Bartosz Konopka, a cult film director and producer from Iceland Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, whose second feature film Children of Nature became the first Icelandic film ever nominated for an Oscar or one of the most successful Slovak cinematographers of today Martin Žiaran, ASK DOP of extraordinary film Hany which was filmed using three 25-minute shots to looks like one single shot.
WARSAW: Five Polish producers have been selected for the 13th Producers Network which will take place as part of Film Market at the 69th Cannes Film Festival on 12-18 May 2016.
BUCHAREST: Six films have been selected for the competition of the 12th Bucharest International Film Festival which will take place from 18 to 24 April 2016.
The Film New Europe Association is main networking platform of professionals in the Central and Eastern Europe and Baltic region. The FNE Association board is made up of the heads of the most important film institutions in the region.
The webportal Film New Europe (FNE) with its FNE Daily newswire was chosen as the main tool to achieve the network’s objectives: FNE is the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the voice of the region. FNE is also a pan-European connection for the region and has partnerships and activities with the main pan-European film institutions based in Western Europe.
Now FNE is introducing the first AV Innovation Team made up of Europe’s top specialists in Innovation to define what is cutting edge in the AV sector with a special emphasis on how innovation in the AV sector can provide the engine the EU’s smaller countries need to meet the challenges facing the industry today. The FNE Innovation team is headed by Innovation specialist Peeter Nieler who will be curating a series of articles on these topics and heading a unique team of the leading young specialists in AV innovation throughout Europe for FNE.
