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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.
PROJECTS SELECTED TO THE 4TH EDITION OF SCRIPTEAST ANNOUNCED!
Every year more and more scriptwriters from Central and Eastern Europe submit their projects to ScripTeast and therefore selecting only 12 projects is getting more and more difficult. This year the Independent Film Foundation, organizer of ScripTeast, received a record number of projects, coming from all of the countries of…
EFA HONOURS KEN LOACH
At the 22nd European Film Awards the European Film Academy will present an honorary award to Ken Loach
Backing by MEDIA International for two new EFP projects in 2010
European Film Promotion (EFP) is pleased to announce the financial support by MEDIA International for two new events in 2010, taking place at the international film festivals in Toronto and Istanbul. The aim of the new MEDIA International programme is to structure and strengthen relations and networks between EU and…
FSS supports record breaking number of films at TIFF 2009
55 European films to be backed by European Film Promotion's marketing tool Record breaking number of films to be supported by FSS at the Toronto International Film Festival
MAIA WORKSHOPS in Modra (Bratislava) in October
Dear friends, MAIA Workshops is a training programme targeted to emerging European producers supported by the Media Programme since 2006. It is structured in 3 residential workshops that take place in April, June and October and deals with all aspects of development including creative, legal, financial, marketing and distribution issues.
POLISH films at The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival
The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival is delighted to announce that this year's programme includes FOUR films from POLAND. This is part of a worldwide selection of over 190 feature films and over 110 shorts from more than 50 countries. The Festival runs from October 14 -October 29.
CALL FOR ENTRIES!! Baltic Event Co-Production Market
29 November - 2 December 2009, Tallinn Entry deadline: September 15, 2009
EUROPEAN ANIMATION HONOURS THIS YEAR'S PROTAGONISTS AT CARTOON TRIBUTES 2009
European animation professionals will select Broadcaster, Distributor/Investor and Producer of the Year. The tributes will be awarded at Cartoon Forum 2009, the European animation industry's annual meeting point.
Emir Kusturica at the first Romania International Film Festival
The Ro-IFF (September 26 to October 4, 2009) presents a special Focus program for acclaimed Serbian director Emir Kusturica. Kusturica and his Non Smoking Orchestra will also open the festival with a concert on Saturday, September 26.
TALLINN 2011 & EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY
European Film Academy to meet with organisers of 2010 European film gala in Tallinn
DOCBOAT - Warsaw Nonfiction e-fest
On July 24 the submissions for the first edition of the Internet documentary festival DOCBOAT/WARSAW NONFICTION E-FEST were closed. The festival starts in September (www.iplex.pl). We received a lot of movies from around the world. They are very enjoyable to watch, but we must also prepare ourselves for the difficult…
Latvian Filmmakers Support the Independent Status of the National Film Centre of Latvia
On 12th of August, about 200 Latvian film professionals carried out a unique support action defending the independent legal status of the National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC). Latvian filmmakers insisted on film industry free from any political influence, thus protesting against the reform plan presented by Latvian State Chancellery…
Cottbus Reception in Sarajevo
Together with their supporters, FilmFestival Cottbus and the East-West Co-Produktion market Connecting Cottbus will present themselves with a reception at the 15th Sarajevo Film Festival on Aug. 18th 2009. The reception will be hosted by Medienboard managing director Kirsten Niehuus as well as Manfred Schmitt, managing director of Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung.…
JERRY SEINFELD TO ATTEND MIPCOM
Paris, 12 August 2009 - Reed MIDEM, in partnership with Endemol, a world leader in entertainment programming, today announces that legendary comedian Jerry Seinfeld, and his production partner Ellen Rakieten (The Oprah Winfrey Show), will be attending MIPCOM this October with their newly created comedy-reality format The Marriage Ref.Jerry Seinfeld…
