SOFIA: Award-winning Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov will go into production with his second film in July 2015, I Want to Be Like You, a Danish/UK/Belgian/Bulgarian coproduction which features an international cast that includes Klaus Maria Brandauer.
TREBON: Spanish director Sam Conflictivos won the Anifilm Grand Jury Prize in the competition of animated films for adults for his claymation film Possessed and the special recognition went to Signe Baumane for Latvian/US film Rocks in My Pockets at the closing ceremony on 9 May 2015.
TREBON: Speaking at a panel consisting of TV broadcaster from across the CEE region, representatives from the public broadcasting channels in Slovakia and Slovenia said that recent new sources of funding for animation have resulted in the return of domestic content to their screens.
PLZEN: Czech and Slovak films shared the documentary prizes handed out in Plzen.
Cartoon Forum Launches First International Cooperation with Visegrad Animation Forum
Czech Republic 08-05-2015TREBON, Czech Republic: Central Europe’s animation pitching forum, the Visegrad Animation Forum (VAF), will send the winners of its TV series pitches to Cartoon Forum in September.
European Film distributors voice concerns about potential outcomes of Digital Single Market Strategy
Press releases 07-05-2015BRUSSELS: Europe’s film distribution industry welcomes the Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy which contains many positive elements and goals that distributors share. Nevertheless, Europa Distribution and the International Federation of Film Distributors’ Associations (FIAD) still have some concerns about the Commission’s plans for copyright and geo-blocking. Film distributors fear that in practice both the value of film rights and the choices available to European audiences would decrease.
KVIFF‘s Industry Days 2015 will take place from Sunday, July 5 to Wednesday, July 8. Hundreds of producers, buyers, distributors, sales agents and film festivals representatives are expected to attend a wide range of industry events on these days.
Digital Single Market Strategy: the EFADs welcome the overall strategy but remain vigilant
Press releases 07-05-2015The European Film Agencies Directors’ Association (EFADs) welcomes the publication of the Digital Single Market Strategy, an action plan from the European Commission to seize opportunities and deal with the challenges of the digital age.
VIENNA: Austria’s LET’S CEE Film Festival will once again put a spotlight on neighbouring Slovenia with the second edition of Slovenian Film Days taking place in Graz on 9 and 10 May 2015.
HAMILTON, BERMUDA: Central European Media Enterprises touted a healthy rise in revenues minus operating costs to 11.4m USD in Q1 2015, compared with a loss of -3.4m USD for the same period in 2014.
