Press conference Strasbourg, 11 June 2013 / 17h-17h30. Subject:  EU-US Trade Agreement. Creators go to Strasbourg to defend the exclusion of culture in EU-US trade agreement.

B'EST - Producers' Workshop Baltic Bridge East by West Call For Entries. The Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST) is an initiative to be held in 2013 by the organizers of the Baltic Event (Estonia), and RFilms and CTB Film Company (Russia) in cooperation with EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs), and with the support from MEDIA Mundus.

East Silver selected film Forget Me Not won the main prize of the Warsaw/Wroclaw Planete Doc Film Festival. Read the full story on Dokweb.

Welcomed by the greatest film festival in the world, the European Rendez-Vous, organised by the MEDIA programme, including the MEDIA conference Think Audience Strategy, will take place this year on the 20 May.

CANNES: Russia’s new largest purpose-built film and TV studio, GLAVKINO, set up by filmmaker Fyodor Bondarchuk and Ilya Bachurin, have announced its first feature film production investments and the intention to expand its studio facilities.

Romanian scriptwriters Xandra Popescu and Stefan Constantinescu compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with Viking Line Story, a story of reignited romance between former high school sweethearts while aboard a cruise ship.

On behalf of the French Minister of Culture and Communication, I am pleased to invite you to our international conference on the following topic: "Strengthening cultural exception in tomorrow’s Europe" on Monday, May 20th 2013 at 10:00 AM at the Salon des Ambassadeurs of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes. 

Estonian scriptwriter Mart Kivastik competes for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Soldier, a WWII story about a minor KGB officer who, for the first time in his life, enjoys some power when he holds a general as a prisoner.