All articles by Martin Blaney – Page 72
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NewsEC backs Euro VOD festival in China
The European Commission is backing the first EU Film Festival Online (EUFF) in China.
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NewsBaltic Event names top co-pro titles
Projects from Kazakhstan, Lithuania and Estonia were voted by sales agents, distributors and potential co-producers as the most promising at the Baltic Event’s 8th Co-Production Market.
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NewsEC addresses Cinema Communication concerns
European Commission VP Joaquín Almunia has tried to allay EU member states’ concerns about the forthcoming Cinema Communication, which aims to set out new State aid rules for films and other audiovisual works.
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NewsCreative Europe reaches “important milestone”
The proposed Creative Europe programme reached “an important milestone” yesterday (26 Nov) after a decision taken by the EU’s 27 ministers of culture at a meeting in Brussels of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport (EYCS) Council under the chairmanship of Cyprus’ Minister for Education & Culture George Demosthenous.
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NewsCo-pro projects emerge ahead of Rendez-Vous
New projects by Arslan, Azoulay, Elkabetz to pitched at co-production market during 10th German-French Rendez-Vous
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NewsEuropa Cinemas secures two years of MEDIA funding
The Europa Cinemas (EC) network has secured a further two years of funding from the European Union’s MEDIA Programme.
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NewsEurimages to lower funding cap
Pan-European co-production fund Eurimages has unveiled a number of changes to its guidelines that will come into effect from January 2013.
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NewsGerman distributors secure AFM deals
Several German distributors returned from this year’s American Film Market with signed and sealed deals for new acquisitions.
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NewsFirst European VoD film festival reveals line-up
The programme has been unveiled for Europe’s first video on demand film festival, which will screen through seven VoD providers.
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NewsIran’s Karimi wins Mannheim-Heidelberg awards
Iranian filmmaker Niki Karimi has received the main award and Newcomer of the Year at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival.
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NewsGermany drafts new VoD regulations
Angela Merkel’s coalition cabinet has greenlit new regulations concerning video-on-demand (VoD) services in the draft German Film Law (FFG) that would come into effect from the beginning of 2014.
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NewsCreative Europe faces 470+ amendments; Almodovar supports threatened student project
EXCLUSIVE: European Parliament deputies have tabled over 470 amendments to the European Commission’s proposed Creative Europe programme following the draft report by Italian MEP Silvia Costa (Screen Daily, Oct 2).
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NewsPolish cinema wins big at Cottbus
Polish cinema was the big winner at this year’s FilmFestival Cottbus with the international jury unanimously awarding Maria Sadowska’s Women’s Day the €20,000 Main Prize for Best Film.
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New films to be unveiled at 11th Baltic Event
New projects by Estonia’s Jaak Kilmi, Finland’s Klaus Harö and Georgia’s Bakur Bakuradze being presented at the 11th Baltic Event in Tallinn
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NewsGermany boosts film funding to €70m
Germany’s State Minister for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann has secured an additional €10m for the DFFF incentive programme’s annual budget from next year, bringing the total available to domestic and international productions up to €70m.
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NewsMEDIA-supported VOD initiative courts controversy
Windows debate spurred on by exhibition cancellation of titles launch through special VOD programme.
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NewsHaneke wins in Vienna; Austrian film fund boost
Directors Michael Haneke, Kenneth Lonergan, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were among the winners at the 50th Viennale.
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NewsLocarno's Chatrian talks about programme plans and Cukor retrospective
Locarno’s new artistic director Carlo Chatrian to continue festival’s “idea of cinema as a meeting place and act of discovery” as he unveils plans to dedicate the 2013 retrospective to George Cukor and announces a reshuffle of selection committee.
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