Category: BALKANS

News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)

GREECE / Winners at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Agora

Although the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival was postponed (originally scheduled from March 5th to 15th), some of its activities, such as the development forum Agora, took place anyway. The Agora Doc Market took place entirely online and so various film projects have received financial support, among them several Mediterranean projects: The Italian film A …

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CROATIA / Meeting of the Eurimages Board of Directors

The 158th meeting of the Eurimages Board of Directors will take place in Zagreb from March 16th to 20th. The previous meeting was last December in Berlin, during which sixteen projects were given production funding. Eurimages is the Council of Europe’s Cultural Fund. Created in 1989, it brings together 38 of the Union’s member states …

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GREECE / Thessaloniki Documentary Festival postponed

Scheduled from March 5th to 15th, this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival has been postponed until the end of May or early June 2020. In a press release, the organisers of the 22nd TDF explained the decision had been taken in the light of the WHO’s latest recommendations about the coronavirus. Their first concern is to …

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CROATIA / Two Croatian films chosen for EKRAN+

EKRAN + is a European professional training programme for directors, helping professionals to develop their film projects. First, by focusing on the script. Then, by working on the audiovisual aspects. And finally by discussing how to get the best out of the other professionals during a shoot. Each participating project has a creative team of …

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CROATIA / Croatian.film, new platform to promote short films

Boris T. Matić and Hrvoje Laurenta, respectively director and executive director of the Zagreb Film Festival, have announced the creation of Croatian.film, an internet platform for promoting Croatian short films. It will be a way, the two men hope, to give the international public an idea of the high quality of Croatian short films. They …

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CROATIA / 4th History Film Festival

From September 8th to the 12th, and for the fourth consecutive year, the History Film Festival will take place in Rijeka in Croatia. Focussing on historical documentary films, the international festival offers audiences an overview of recent history films and television programmes, while for four days cinema professionals can come together and discuss current issues. …

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MONTENEGRO / The Film Centre of Montenegro finances new national projects

The results of a competition for film finance, organized by the Montenegro Film Centre, have been announced. Project and script development are also assisted. In the feature section: – Ivan Marinović will receive €270,000 for Forever Hold Your Peace, produced by Adriatic Western – Draško Djurović will receive €150,000 for The Last Night in the …

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