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South Korea opens window on European film artists
When the Pusan International Film Festival (October 8 - 16, 2009) lights its screens for 355 films from across the globe, a sizeable European artistic delegation is among the guests presenting their films. Backed by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, European Film Promotion (EFP) is supporting the European…
Stasys Eidrigevičius: “Kaunas is a very important city in the path of my creative work”
After the screening of the film Bouzkachi: The Chant of Steppes on Saturday night, viewers of Kaunas International Film Festival had an opportunity to meet and talk with the artist Stasys Eidrigevičius. He said he was very happy to meet the Lithuanian audience and introduce the film in which he…
Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival
Dear Member of the Press, We are happy to inform you that 4th Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival will be held between 14th-22th November, 2009 in the beautiful and historic city of Bursa, a unique metropolis nearby Istanbul that has managed to preserve its culture through time.
RABBIT A LA BERLIN CLOSER TO OSCAR NOMINATIONS
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the list of eight semi-finalists in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 2010 Academy Awards. Three to five of those shorts will end up with Oscar nominations. Short documentary Rabbit à la Berlin by Bartek Konopka and Piotr Rosolowski…
Jihlava IDFF 2009 - Archive titbits and other news
Dear friends of documentary,(see the links to press releases at the end of each article)Translucent Being Georges Rouquier - almost forgotten master of rural studiesThe Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2009 will present almost forgotten personality of the French documentary - Georges Rouquier in the retrospective section Translucent Beings.
ScripTeast Stationary Lab concluded
ScripTeast Stationary Lab was concluded on Friday, 2nd of October in Ossolinski Palace, Sterdyn, Poland. During the 7-day workshops Authors of 12 projects representing 9 Central and Eastern European Countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia) were having individual meetings with Creative Advisors, attended case…
Developing Screenplays II - Discussion and Open Pitching Forum
October 14, 2009, 14:30-18:00 at FAMU, Smetanovo nábř. 2, Prague 1 / room U1
The Golden Orange takes the stage.
THE INTERNATIONAL ANTALYA GOLDEN ORANGE FILM FESTIVAL WILL BE CELEBRATING ITS 46th ANNIVERSARY ON OCTOBER 10-17TH, 2009.On Tuesday, September 15th, 2009, the Antalya Golden Orange Festival Committee held its first official press conference at the Istanbul Dedeman Hotel. Officiating over the Press Conference was the Mayor of Antalya and Chairman…
CentEast line-up announced
The CentEast Warsaw-Moscow presentation of Eastern European works-in-progress and completed films has selected 17 films to be presented during the Warsaw Film Festival (www.wff.pl) on October 16 and in Moscow on October 18.
ScripTeast workshops started!
Since last Saturday authors of 12 projects selected to take part in ScripTeast have been attending individual meetings with a group of Creative Advisors, featuring Marc Caro (France), Cesar winner, scriptwriter and director of "Delicatessen", „The City of Lost Children", "Dante 01"; an animator and author of the visual concept…
FIVE DEBUT FILMS NOMINATED FOR EFA DISCOVERY AWARD
At the Zurich Film Festival, the European Film Academy has announcedthis year's nominations for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY, an award presentedannually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcomingdirector for a first full-length feature film. This year's nominationswere determined by a committee comprised of Board Members PawelPawlikowski…
THE SHORT FILM NOMINEES FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009
The final nominee has just been announced at the International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece):
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS IN DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING – TERRY SANDERS
Terry Sanders (born New York, 1931) is a director, producer and writer, who has been granted the Academy Award® twice.
A decade of a unique music festival in a documentary collage All Tomorrow’s Parties
While Europe follows the rhythm of a number of huge music festivals, Kaunas International Film Festival offers its viewers an opportunity to get acquainted with one of the most popular events, All Tomorrow's Parties, which takes place at a holiday camp by the sea in the UK and has been…
DOC ALLIANCE FILMS - The New Deal for Feature Documentaries
Doc Alliance is a partnership which emerged as a result of the co-operative effort of five key European documentary film festivals - CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, Planete Doc Review Warsaw and VISIONS DU REEL Nyon.
Kaunas Film Festival introduces artists, musicians and filmmakers
The third Kaunas International Film Festival will begin on October 1 and will introduce to cineastes more guests than just filmmakers, who are the traditional visitors of film festivals. The festival will be visited by three film music composers and the world famous Lithuanian artist Stasys Eidrigevičius, who has significantly…
EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS WITH NEW CATEGORY FOR ANIMATION
The European Film Academy and CARTOON, the European Association of Animation Film, take great pleasure in announcing the creation of a new award category for the European Film Awards:
GORMITI, the Lords of Nature return
Global children's animation series set to air in the US, Europe and Middle East
ITV STUDIOS SPAIN FORMAT "PASAPALABRA" ARRIVES IN TURKEY
Wednesday 16 September 2009, ITV Studios, Global Entertainment has licensed its hit entertainment format Pasapalabra to Turkey's Star TV, following on from the formats unrivalled success in Spain on Telecinco and September premiere on France 2.
