The Film New Europe Association (FNE) is a networking body and free online news wire for film institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic region. [1] [2] [3] It is based in Warsaw, Poland [3] [4] and has an office in Prague. [5] It was founded by Andrzej Wajda. Its advisory panel includes Czech directory director Jan Svěrák, Polish screenwriter Krzysztof Zanussi, Slovak directors Martin Šulík and Juraj Jakubisko, Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas and Hungarians, screenwriter István Szabó and cinematographer Lajos Koltai.
The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The Czech Republic has a hilly landscape that covers an area of 78,871 square kilometers (30,452 sq mi) with a mostly temperate continental and oceanic climate. The capital and largest city is Prague; other major cities and urban areas include Brno, Ostrava, Plzeň and Liberec.
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish films tend to be less commercially available than films from several other European nations.
Paramount Networks Europe, Middle East, Africa & Asia (EMEAA) is a division of Paramount International Networks which is fully owned by Paramount Global. The unit's headquarters are in Berlin, with additional offices in Madrid, Lisbon, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Dubai, Johannesburg, Lagos, Budapest, Warsaw, Singapore, Stockholm, Tokyo, Beijing, Manila, Copenhagen, Prague, Helsinki, and Hong Kong. The company was originally founded under the name MTV Networks Europe in 1987.
Vineeth Sreenivasan is an Indian playback singer, actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, creative director and dubbing artist. He predominantly works in the Malayalam cinema. He is the elder son of actor and screenwriter Sreenivasan.
Finance New Europe is an English language magazine and website based in Prague, Czech Republic. It has been published since 2003 and is known to be the only business magazine focused on the central and eastern European (CEE) region as a whole, rather than on one single country.
Pavel Juráček was a Czech screenwriter and film director who studied at FAMU. Juráček started as a screenwriter for many Czech New Wave movies until he became a director. He worked in Prague at the Barrandov film studios; however after his satirical movie Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) was shelved, he was fired from Barrandov and wasn't allowed to make movies anymore.
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU is a film school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. It is the fifth oldest film school in the world. The teaching language on most courses at FAMU is Czech, but FAMU also runs certain courses in English. The school has repeatedly been included on lists of the best film schools in the world by The Hollywood Reporter.
Daniela Thomas is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking.
Boris Moiseevich Frumin is a Soviet, American and Latvian film director and screenwriter.
Giorgi Ovashvili is a Georgian film director and screenwriter, known for his 2014 film Corn Island.
Flower Buds is a 2011 Czech drama film written and directed by Zdeněk Jiráský.
Ilian Djevelekov is a Bulgarian film director and producer.
Igor Drljaca is a Bosnian Canadian film writer, producer and director. A graduate of York University, he cofounded the Canadian production company Timelapse Pictures with Albert Shin.
Ester Krumbachová was a Czech screenwriter, costume designer, stage designer, author and director. She is known for her contributions to Czech New Wave cinema in the 1960s, including collaborations with directors Věra Chytilová and Jan Němec. Krumbachová would often act as both writer and art director on the films she worked on, such as Daisies and Fruit of Paradise. She directed one film in her lifetime, being The Murder of Mr. Devil, released in 1971. Krumbachová was largely banned from working in film during the 1980s by the communist party due to her involvement in A Report on the Party and the Guests.
The Golden Rose Bulgarian Feature Film Festival is held in Varna in September or October. Also known as Golden Rose National Film Festival or simply Golden Rose Film Festival, the event was first held in August 1961 under the name "Bulgarian Film Festival"; it ran annually until 1974 and after that it was usually held every two years. The 34th Golden Rose Film Festival was held September 19 to 25, 2016.
Emerging Producers is an educational and promotional workshop, organised since 2012 by Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as part of its Industry Programme. The project is focused on the support of talented European documentary film producers by helping them with orientation in the film market, creating the space for coproduction, and arranging the contact with leading film professionals. It is the only programme of its kind designed for documentary film producers in Europe.
Kino Świat is a Polish independent film distributor and producer. The company was founded in Warsaw in 2001. It was honored by the Polish Film Institute for film distribution in 2011 and 2012.
CineLibri is an annual international book and movie festival in Bulgaria founded in 2015, intended to showcase the best literary adaptations for cinema, both contemporary and classic. Jacqueline Wagenstein founded the event.
Harvie and the Magic Museum is a 2017 3D animated comedy fantasy film based on the Czech Spejbl and Hurvínek puppet comedy duo.