FESTIVALS: Pula Film Fest Moves Forward
PULA: The Pula Film Festival will be one of the first festivals in the CEE region to take place in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. This year’s festival dates…
FESTIVALS: Split Mediterranean Festival Takes Place in July
SPLIT: The 13th Mediterranean Film Festival Split has confirmed that it will be held in the Adriatic coast city on 2 – 11 July 2020.
FESTIVALS: Zagreb Film Festival 2020 Calls for Entries
ZAGREB: The 18th Zagreb Film Festival, which will take place 8 – 15 November 2020, has opened its call for entries for competition films and for the My First Script…
Croatia Launches First SVOD Platform
ZAGREB: The first Croatian on demand subscriber platform Svevid has started operations in early May via the website www.svevid.net . It was created by a Zagreb company.
Independent Drive-in Cinemas Boom in Croatia
ZAGREB: Independent drive-in projects in the Croatian cities of Varaždin, Zagreb and Rijeka are attracting hundreds of spectators, while exhibitors wait for the reopening of cinemas.
NEM Dubrovnik Partners with NEM Zagreb
ZAGREB: The eighth edition of the TV market NEM Dubrovnik, originally scheduled to take place in June, has postponed its event and will instead join forces with its sister event…
FESTIVALS: Animafest Zagreb Postponed
ZAGREB: The 30th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb 2020, which was set to take place 8-13 June, has announced its postponement.
Croatian.film Platform With More Than 68,000 Viewers
ZAGREB: The newly established VOD platform Croatian.film has attracted 68,000 unique users, who have visited the website 400,000 times. The highest number of visits to the website have come from…
Croatia’s Kino Europa Resurfaces Online
ZAGREB: One year after being forced to close, Kina Europa’s Zagreb Film Festival team launch the Kino Europa Online platform.
RE-ACT Announces Editing Workshop
ZAGREB: The regional film funding initiative RE-ACT is accepting applications for the First Cut Lab RE-ACT summer session through 15 May 2020.
FNE Interviews Croatian Audiovisual Centre CEO Chris Marcich: Our entire industry is at risk, but it can recover
ZAGREB: Croatia has been hit hard by the COVID-19 virus, which arrived around the same time as Zagreb suffered a devastating earthquake. FNE spoke with Chris Marcich, head of the…
Croatia Introduces State Measures to Support Filmmakers
ZAGREB: The COVID-19 pandemic affects the Croatian film industry strongly. All filming has been canceled or postponed, including the production of the new feature films by Goran Dukić, Juraj Lerotić…
ZagrebDox Pro Announces Winners
ZAGREB: The HBO Europe Award, the main award of the ZagrebDox Pro, went to the Hungarian project Queen of Chess directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter. ZagrebDox Pro was held this year…
The Show Must Go On by Nevio Marasović Available for Free on Vimeo
ZAGREB: The debut feature of Nevio Marasović, The Show Must Go On (2010) is available on Vimeo free of charge. The director made this decision to express his support for…
Croatian BO Falls By 83% As Cinemas Close
ZAGREB: The Croatian box office fell by 83% in the weekend of 13-15 March 2020. Only two Hollywood films, Bloodshot by David S. F. Wilson and My Spy by Peter…
Eurimages Meeting In Zagreb Cancelled
ZAGREB: The 158th Board of Management meeting of Eurimages, which was due to take place in Zagreb from 17 to 20 March 2020, has been cancelled.
GRANTS: Croatian Audiovisual Centre Announces Grants
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre announced new grants for production, minority coproduction, development and international cooperation. A total of 3.3 m EUR / 25 m HRK was allocated for 115…
ZagrebDox Postponed Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
ZAGREB: The 16th edition of ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival, due to take place from 15 to 22 March 2020, is being postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. The new…
Day of Croatian Film and Music in Brussels
ZAGREB: Croatian Composers' Society and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre are organising a Day of Croatian Film and Music in Brussels on 24 March 2020, on the occasion of the current…
Beta Film Buys Majority Stake in Croatian Production Company Drugi Plan
ZAGREB: The German production company Beta Film has bought a majority stake in Drugi Plan, a Croatian production and service company specialised in high-quality drama series.
