The opening session of new FERA strand Directors Looking Forward held at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival heard about the importance of directors taking greater responsibility for the fate of their films in the new, emerging distribution landscape.

WARSAW: Polish producer Danuta Krasnohorska of CoLab Pictures has completed development on Love Express. The Strange Case of Walerian Borowczyk, a documentary about a critically acclaimed art house filmmaker who turned to pornography.

WARSAW: Starting Point, a documentary by Polish director Michal Szczesniak, has made it onto the Oscar short list for best documentary short subject film.

A delegation from the Institute of Documentary Film will attend the next IDFA Forum.

A NEW MODEL FOR FILM DISTRIBUTION - Moving Docs brings high quality documentaries to audiences all over Europe.

A NEW MODEL FOR FILM DISTRIBUTION - Moving Docs brings high quality documentaries to audiences all over Europe.

WARSAW: Polish film director Agnieszka Holland was given the Kosciuszko Foundation’s Pioneer Award at a gala ceremony held in the US.

VALLETTA: Domestic films accounted for 4.2 percent of admissions in 2014, which totaled 653,000.

HAMBURG: European Film Promotion announced that Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca will be on the jury of the 2016 European Shooting Stars.

The Baltic Event award ceremony was this year held in Tallinn Teachers’ House in the historic Town Hall Square. Industry@Tallinn, the label under which Baltic Event collaborates with Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Industry Office, brought over 370 film industry professionals to Tallinn on November 16-19. Over five categories, 57 projects were presented and six awards granted among them, with the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award in the amount of 20 000 Euros given out for the first time.