The European broadcasting festival Prix Europa 2011 announces this year’s nominees. The category of feature-length television documentary presents also two successful Czech documentaries Katka, made by Helena Třeštíková, and Coal in the Soul filmed by the directing couple Martin Dušek and Ondřej Provazník. Prix Europa 2011 takes place in October 22 – 29 in Berlin.

Senior executives and marketing chiefs of Europe’s cable tv industry will be heading to Malta on September 22-23 to attend EuroSummit’11, the annual gathering of the industry’s marketing leaders organised by CTAM Europe. Among the speakers are top managers from Microsoft, UPC Broadband, Virgin Media, Samsung, Viacom, Turner Broadcasting Europe, Convergys, Eurosport, Sundance Channel, Telenet, Comcast, Zon TV, Chello Media and many more, with moderators including leading media commentator Ray Snoddy and BBC business and travel presenter Aaron Heslehurst.

Day 1.

CTAM Europe Chairman, Chris Winkelmolen will open EuroSummit’11, and introduce the Day 1 keynote speaker, Doron Hacmon, MD, Products and Online Media at UPC Broadband, who has an unusual take on consumer marketing with his presentation entitled “ What’s love got to do with it?”.

Following sessions include

*Connected TV: Marketing the ‘New Paradigm’

*Social media and the future of business, media and communications

*TV Everywhere: What will it take to deliver on its potential?

*Brand building in a fragmented world

*Building a powerful 21^st century brand

*Your customers: you hear them, but are you really listening?

*New platforms mean new ad revenue opportunities. Are we ready to grab them?

*Shifting focus: how cable can win in the SoHo market.

*Funny, yes, but will it sell?

The day ends with the 2011 Creative Awards Program (CAP)Ceremony, where the gold, silver and bronze winners will be announced for the best marketing campaigns in 2011 that have built or sustained strong brands. The ceremony will be followed by the EuroSummit party.

Day 2.

For early risers there will be a Breakfast session focusing on 2 topics:

“Cable Goes Green?” and “ Audit Your Way To Success! “

In the opening session, entitled “Safe “ is the new “Sorry”, top media commentator Ray Snoddy will interview Phyllis Harris, Microsoft’s General Manager for Communications and Media, and Michelle Nowak, Global Head and Director of Strategy and Solutions for Cable at Convergys.

Following sessions are

*The CEO Forum

*Sales 2.0 – the right environment makes the sale

*CAP 2011: Best in show- the winners explain how they did it.

Full details of every session and the speakers are on the EuroSummit’11 web site,

www.eurosummit11.com

About CTAM Europe

CTAM Europe is the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing and is a non-profit, non-commercial, professional membership organization, dedicated to driving marketing excellence in the cable industry. As “cable's growth engine" CTAM Europe's mission is to be the premier provider of marketing education, information and networking opportunities to individuals who work in the European cable industry. CTAM Europe's membership represents more than 25 leading companies including cable operators, programmers and service companies that support the industry. The organization is affiliated with CTAM in North America, which began in 1976 and now has more than 5,500 members worldwide. For more information, please visit our web site at www.ctameurope.com.

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The list is ready: the competition program of 8th Jameson CineFest is complete. We can say that this year’s program, all the 14 movies, is much stronger than last year’s, moreover, it is going to be the strongest Hungarian festival competition program ever. Our aim is unchanged: to create the best international film festival in Hungary – without any compromises.

We regard the US line important: you will be able to watch the best indie oversea films in Miskolc and also find Sundance awarded movies like the special crime drama Animal Kingdom (Main Prize, 2010) directed by the Australian David Michôd, in which we can follow up how a gangster family falls apart. Martha Marcy May Marlene, a movie which appeared in Cannes and was awarded for best direction at Sundance, will be screened one month earlier than its US premiere as an unconventional suspense: the paranoiac title hero escapes from a sect were she has spent long years, however, it is no sure whether a traumatized person is welcomed in a “normal” society. Two British films are included in the section: Harry Brown with the starring of the Oscar winner Michael Caine, telling a classical revenge story; and, as no Jameson CineFest can lack sci-fi movies, Attack the Block set in London will surely be a titbit for the genre’s fans, just like Sala samobójców/Suicide Room, the first polish cyber-drama.

Karl Markovics’s first direction, Breathing/Atmen, which can be compared mostly to the works of the Dardenne brothers, will also be presented in Miskolc: this film has been awarded in Sarajevo and it turned out to be the official Austrian Oscar-nominee. Two Hungarian co-productions will be in the competition program: Adrian Sitaru’s Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intentii, which got the award for the Best Direction in Locarno; and The Other Side of Sleep, a drama by the Irish director Rebecca Daly. Even though Fleurs du mal is a French production, its director, David Dusa is of Hungarian origins and so we can regard this work as a little bit of ours, either. The drama Michael is coming straight from this year’s Cannes competition: Markus Schleinzer’s (he is Michael Haneke’s casting director) very strong debuting topic, the portrait of a pedophile, it has divided the critics’ opinion.

We will screen 14 long feature films in competition and 6 out of competition. True to the traditions of the Miskolc International Film Festival, it is going to present only Hungarian premieres. The greatest hit out of competition is Gus Van Sant’s movie Restless, which was the opening film of Cannes’s Un certain regard. We are going to screen it only a few days after its US premiere, and it will be presented exclusively at Jameson CineFest.

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2011 Regulations

The Film New Europe Visegrad Prix recognizes the fiction and documentary films of the Central European region, promotes mutual cultural understanding and promotes professional co-operations international co-productions.

The Prix is organized by Film New Europe and financed by the Visegrad Fund (www.visegradfund.org)

In the competition entries are selected by the programme committee of participating film festivals from among those films in its main programme and sections of the festival’s official program.The entries must be coproductions produced in a Visegrad country.

Coproductions in which a Visegrad country is a minority coproducer also qualify to compete for the Prix.In selecting entries priority will be given to coproductions between one of the four Visegrad countries and another European country.

Once selected to compete for the FNE Visegrad Prix all films in the selection will be treated equally by the jury and will be evaluated according to the decision of the jury.

The prix will be awarded to one feature film at one participating festival and one documentary film at a different participating festival each year.

The festival programme committee will select between 4 and 8 films for the competition.The main jury of the participating festival will decide the will decide the winning film.

The winning films will be shown where possible at other participating festivals later that same year or the following year provided there are no restrictions on copyright or other prohibitions that would prevent such screenings.

The Prix and the festival do not pay copyright fee for presenting the films.

In 2011 the amount of the Prix will 1000 Euros for best documentary coproduction and 1000 Euros for best fiction coproduction.

The Prix will be presented at the participating festival.The members of the jury must sign a document confirming that they have awarded the FNE Visegrad Prix to the winning film.

The winning films will be promoted on FNE.

Cash Value of the combined prizes in 2011: 2 000 Euros.

Participating festivals 2011: Jameson CineFest- Miskolc International Film Festival (Hungary), Era New Horizons (Poland), Bratislava IFF (Slovakia) Jihlava (Czech Republic)

Fiction presenting festival 2011: Jameson CineFest – Miskolc International Film Festival

Documentary presenting festival 2011: Jihlava IFF

The presentation will be rotated annually between participating festivals.Non-presenting festivals will provide publicity support for the Prix and where possible screen the winning films within limitations of copyright and other possible logistical prohibitions.

Jos Horemans, president of SIGNIS Europe is going to head the international ecumenical jury of 8^th Jameson CineFest. ‘It is a great honour to be the president of the first international ecumenical jury in Hungary’, says Horemans, the leader of the European branche of the catholic world association for media and communication. ‘We are present at the world’s leading festivals and it is a great pleasure for us that in Hungary, at the dynamically developing Miskolc International Film Festival there will be a body of two catholic and two protestant members.’

At the world’s top festivals, these bodies have been granting awards for long decades now. Only few may know but many Hungarian films have also been awarded with the ecumenical jury’s award in Berlin and Cannes and other festivals. Jameson CineFest has prepared with a retrospective film selection to honour the first ecumenical jury in Hungary. The program contains such films as Szerelem (Love), the legendary film by Károly Makk (awarded in 1971, Cannes); Pál Schiffer’s Cséplő Gyuri (Gyuri Cséplő), which is focusing on roma matters and was awarded in 1978 in Locarno; the staggering documentary Száműzöttek (Exiles) by Imre Gyöngyössy and Barna Kabay (1991, Montreal) and the excellent but rarely screened Azonosítás (Man with No Name) by László Lugossy (1976, Berlin).

Peter Muszatics

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We follow a successful businessman as he buys land, negotiates with politicians, commissions extensive market surveys and meets with his associates at a major real estate exhibition. He collects art, lives in a luxurious lakeside villa and is part of an industry that builds shopping centres around the world, generating huge profits. Nevertheless, this pursuit of profit has its consequences. Not only does The Global Town follow the businessman as he goes about his dealings, it also shows how what he does dramatically changes our living environment.

Jacek Borcuch’s new film, under working title Lasting Moments (Chwile nieulotne), begins shooting on September 8^th in the Valencia region. The plot centres around a pair of Polish students who meet during holidays in Spain. Unexpectedly nightmare reality breaks into this carefree time and heavenly landscape and puts their lives to an unwanted test…

Leading roles will be played by Jakub Gierszał, an actor who has worked with Jacek Borcuch on his last film All That I Love, and Magdalena Berus. Among the Spanish cast are a great personality of the Spanish cinema, Angela Molina, and Juanjo Ballesta, one of the most interesting actors of the young generation. The director of photography will be Michał Englert, the music will be composed by Daniel Bloom while the set design will be created by Elwira Pluta. The producers of the film are Piotr Kobus and Agnieszka Drewno.

At the beginning of October the crew will travel to Cracow for the second part of shooting and afterwards to Kwidzyn. The end of principal photography is scheduled for mid-November and the premiere for autumn 2012.

The film is being produced by Manana in co-production with Espiral Producciones (Spain) and Cracow Festival Office, and is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute and the Regional Film Fund in Cracow with the support of the City of Kwidzyn.

The last film by Jacek Borcuch, All That I Love, was distributed in 20 countries, won several international and national film awards and was the Polish candidate for the Oscars. It was also the first Polish production to be shown in the main competition of the Sundance Film Festival.

PS. Please do not combine this information with earlier news about the content and cast of the film which are either outdated or erroneous.

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Mañana

At the 64^th Locarno International Film Festival, the film Opowieści z chłodni (Frozen Stories) by Grzegorz Jaroszuk received a nomination for the European Film Awards in the Best Short Film category. Special mention of the International Federation of Film Societies went to the Polish-Romanian animated film Crulic - Droga na drugą stronę (Crulic - Road to the Beyond) by Anca Damian. Both films were co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.

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Frozen Stories screened in the Pardi di domani / Leopard of Tomorrow short film competition, alongside Bez śniegu (Without Snow) by Magnus von Horn. Both features were produced at the National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź.

Frozen Stories is focused around two supermarket workers who have two days to find their purpose in life. The film was previously recognized at the "Łodzią po Wiśle" film festival, receiving the Grand Prize and audience award. Frozen Stories also screened at the 36^th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia (Young Cinema Competition), at the New Horizons festival in Wrocław, and at the "Dwa Brzegi / Two Riversides" film festival in Kazimierz Dolny.

Crulic, which screened in Main Competition at this year's Locarno IFF, is a combination of animation, documentary, and feature film. The plot is based on real events from 2007 and 2008, when Claudiu Crulic, a Romanian prison inmate, died in a Krakow prison after a four-month-long hunger strike.

At this year's 51^st edition of the Krakow Film Festival, the short documentary Paparazzi by Piotr Bernaś also received a nomination for the European Film Awards. Paparazzi was also co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.

The European Film Awards ceremony will be held in Berlin on December 3, 2011.

Further details about the Locarno International Film Festival available at: www.pardolive.ch.

The official website of the European Film Academy available at: www.europeanfilmacademy.org.

Best regards,

Olga Domżała

Olga Domżała

Film Sales Support & PR Manager

Polish Film Institute

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