News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
Filming for the feature film Lunatic recently wrapped in the coastal town of Piran in Slovenia. The film should be finished by December 2022. Written and directed by Igor Šterk, Lunatic is an autobiographical story about the director’s family – more specifically about his father, Jure Šterk – famous for having crossed the Atlantic alone …
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In a previous article, we presented the Evia Film Project, an initiative organized as part of the Thessaloniki Film Festival. During the event, which ended on June 19th, film projects were presented to potential backers and industry professionals discussed ecological issues, in particular how film production affects the climate crisis. The opening discussion, “Don’t be …
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Croatia and Romania have announced they are applying new measures to tax streaming platforms broadcasting in their countries. As members of the European Union, both countries apply the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS Directive). Created in 2010, this directive was revised in 2018 to reflect the changes in the media landscape. The AVMS Directive …
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Montenegrin scriptwriter and director, Sead Šabotić, has finished filming his feature-length documentary Once Upon a Family. Produced by Code Blue Productions, the project received €30,000 from the Montenegro Film Centre in 2019, and the same year was presented at the Beldocs Academy (Serbia). Development continued in Prague at Ex Oriente Film 2020. Once Upon a …
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CineLink Industry Days is an event for professional film-makers from south-eastern Europe with productions in development. Meetings are arranged with directors, producers, funders and distributors. Selected films are divided into two categories: the CineLink Co-Production Market, presenting 9 feature films, and CineLink Drama, with 6 series. The event takes place over several phases. From June …
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Organized by the Hellenic Film Academy (HFA), the 13th Iris Awards celebrated the year’s best Greek films in an event involving much of the Greek film industry. This year a first film by Giorgos Goussis, Magnetic Fields, won five awards, including Best Feature. Magnetic Fields is a road movie set on the island of Kefalonia. …
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The 15th Split Mediterranean Film Festival (FMFS) opened on June 16th and ends on June 25th. The festival is recognized as one of the Adriatic’s most popular cultural events. In 14 years more than 100,000 spectators have attended the screenings, which take place either outdoors at the Bačvice cinema or indoors in a thousand-year-old historic …
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