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BUCHAREST: The Romanian Alliance of Film Producers (AFP), comprising most of Romanian production companies, has issued a new appeal to the authorities...

BELGRADE: Twelve participants from all over the world are taking part in the 4th edition of CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator, whose first module started o...

STRASBOURG: Alexander Nanau’s documentary collective has been voted by the European public and the members of the European Parliament as the winner of...

ZAGREB: Jure Pavlović’s debut feature Mater was released under the title Mère et fille in France on 2 June 2021. The film has been released by Damned...

PRAGUE: Multiplex cinemas are getting ready for reopening in the Czech Republic on 10 June 2021, starting with Cinema City. Smaller cinema theatres ar...

LJUBLJANA: Most Slovenian art houses have already reopened, while the COVID-19 situation is less and less restrictive, whereas cineplexes, with the ex...

New Serbian Postproduction Facility 247HUB Fully Booked with Projects
BELGRADE: The new premium postproduction facility 247HUB, which opened in Belgrade's downtown at the end of 2020, is already fully booked with incoming international projects, as well as booming Serbian film and TV projects.
Senior colorists Miodrag Popović and Goran Todorić are among the company’s co-founders. They state that 247HUB leads projects from the initial idea to final delivery and their services extend beyond the studio lot in providing technical support for a variety of external processes including DIT.
The main feature of the 500 sq m facility is the colour grading theatre powered by BaseLight with a 4K Sony laser projector, Sony reference monitor, Stewart reference screen and Dolby 7.1. Another smaller grading suite is equally powered by FilmLight and Sony, connected to editing rooms, comfortable office space and VFX office. FilmLight Flux storage and rendering capacities are supported through Cisco network, up to 100GB/s, enabling high security and quick transfer of data. 247HUB is in the final assessment phase of getting a TPN certificate with a goal of becoming a reference post production facility for Southeast Europe.

Latvian Drama The Pit Sold to HBO Europe
RIGA: Latvian director Dace Pūce’s debut feature
The Pit / Bedre (2020) will be available to Eastern Europe's viewers through a new license agreement with HBO Europe, inked by the Italian international sales company TVCO. Earlier, the German theatrical distributor Arsenal Filmverleih had acquired all rights to the film for German speaking territories.
The Pit was produced by Marana Productions (Latvia) in cooperation with Inland Film Company (Finland). It premiered at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, where it won the Grand Prix. The film was chosen to be the opening film for the reopening of cinemas in Lübeck in mid-May 2021.

SKOPJE: Denmark`s LevelK will manage the international sales for John Vardar vs. the Galaxy, the first Macedonian long animated film, written and dire...

SKOPJE: Open-air cinemas are gradually beginning to reopen in North Macedonia and film festivals are starting to release their dates after the long hi...

ZAGREB: The number of cinemagoers plummeted to 1,503,306 in the pandemic year of 2020, marking a 70 percent decline compared to 2019. Only two percent...

Malta’s National Book Council Launches Adaptation Fund for 2021
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VALLETTA: Malta’s National Book Council has launched a call for applications for its adaptation fund, which seeks to award one project with a maximum of 200,000 EUR to cover development and production spend.
The NBC Film Adaptation Fund aims to promote Maltese literature by granting public financing for the translation onto screen of any novel, published in English or Maltese, which has won or has been shortlisted for Malta’s National Book Prize. The deadline for applications is 30 August 2021, and a panel of independent evaluators will choose the winning project.

Maltese Cinemas Set to Reopen on 7 June 2021
VALLETTA: Cinemas across the Maltese islands are set to reopen on 7 June 2021, following a nearly four-month closure imposed earlier this year as part of a wider spate of restrictions aiming to get Coronavirus numbers under control.
The government has announced the relaxation of measures as infection rates in Malta and Gozo plummeted. This has been partly attributed to a successful vaccination rollout, which is currently in full swing. Over 147,600 people, out of a population of half a million, are now fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, with inoculation open to anyone over 16, as of 17 May 2021.
When cinemas reopen on the 7 June 2021, they will, however, still need to abide by stringent regulations: social distancing measures will still be in place, with the theatres only allowed to fill 30 percent of their capacity. Mask-wearing will remain obligatory.

Cinemas in Slovakia Allowed to Reopen on 17 May 2021
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BRATISLAVA: Cinemas in Slovak regions with a lower COVID-19 rate are allowed to reopen under specific conditions on 17 May 2021, but it is expected that cinema operators will open one or two weeks after that date
„We expect the decisions from all our members, but probably no cinema will open on 17 May 2021. From the answers we have received so far, it is more likely that the cinemas will open in ​the last week of May or the first week of June 2021 “, Nataša Simonková from the Association of Cinema Operators told FNE.

Cinemas in North Macedonia Reopen
SKOPJE: Macedonian cinemas begin to reopen as authorities in North Macedonia ease the domestic COVID-19-related restrictions.
The Cinematheque of North Macedonia reopened its open-air cinema on 14 May 2021 after being closed since 6 April 2021. Most of the cinemas chose to close their doors on this date due to the imposed nationwide night-time curfew from 8 pm to 5 am local time the next day, with exception of the multiplex cinema Cineplexx, which remained open working part-time.
The two cinemas in Skopje managed by the Youth Cultural Center – Cinema Milenium and Cinema Frosina remain closed, although Cinema Frosina, which has been closed from the beginning

is dedicated to the artistic heritage of Eastern European film and New Media. The agenda of goEast, conceived as a forum of East-West dialogue, is dominated by questions of (multiple) European identities and processes of rapid social and political transformation.The participants from Central and Eastern Europe presented virtual reality and 360 projects curated by the XR pioneer Georgy Molodtsov. The Open Frame Award prize, granted by the BHF Bank Foundation, beckons the best immersive work evaluated by an international jury.
For the creative team, The Spheres City is the first interactive computer-generated VR experience and being part of the GoEast community is a recognition of the innovative quality of the work.