News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
For the first time the Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (ACID) will organize three screenings at the Cannes Film Festival. These screenings, called collectively the ACID Trip, will be on May 19th, 20th and 21st. The idea is to give a free hand to a foreign independent film body for three screenings. The …
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The Romanian Cinematographic Centre has published a study showing that between 2015 and 2016 the audience for films produced in Romania more than doubled. Over the past two years, the number of tickets sold for Romanian films has risen from 204,000 to 428,000. Takings total €1.45 million, an increase of 140% for 2016. Paul …
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Submissions are now open for the 24th Astra Film Festival, taking place in Sibiu, Romania, from October 16th to 22nd 2017. The festival is organized by Astra Film (Centre for Documentary and Visual Education), the National Museum Astra in Sibiu, and the Astra Film Foundation. The aim of the festival is to encourage cultural and …
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The Environmental Film Festival Albania (EFFA) has launched a call for entries for its fifth session, scheduled from May 21st to 27th 2017. The films presented focus on environmental awareness. There are three categories: feature films, short films and films from the EFFA lab – a structure giving financial support to films from the Balkans …
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At the end of November, the Croatian parliament appointed Blago Markota as acting Director General of HRT, the country’s public broadcaster. Blago Markota joined HRT in 1999 as a financial analyst. Since then he has held various positions within the group: Marketing Director, member of Croatian Television’s Board of Directors, and then advisor to the …
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In early December the Romanian government approved an amendment to a new law which will change the way the country’s film industry operates. Every section of the law proposed by Corina Suteu, Romania’s Minister of Culture, has been ratified except the one on allocating new resources for the Film Finance Fund. One of the main …
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On October 26th the Council of State, Greece’s Supreme Administrative Court, delivered its judgement on whether the broadcasting reforms initiated by Alexis Tsipras’ government are constitutional. Referred to the Council as a last resort by private television channels, the judges invalidated by a narrow majority (14 to 11) the reform which allowed the government to …
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