MEDIA and 'Creative Europe' in the spotlight at 65th Cannes Film Festival
17.05.2012
Eighteen films supported by the European Commission's MEDIA programme are in the Cannes Film Festival's 'Official Selection' this year, of which seven are in competition for the Palme d'Or, notably "Amour" by Michael Haneke, "The Angel's Share" by Ken Loach and "Jagten" (The Hunt) by Thomas Vinterberg…
Films supported by the MEDIA Programme won ten Czech Lion Awards
06.03.2012
In recent years the MEDIA programme has supported the development of four films that won a total of ten Czech Lion Awards at this year's Czech Film and Television Academy Awards.This year's Czech Film and Television Academy Awards were particularly auspicious for films that had been supported by MEDIA…
Creative Europe at Berlinale
17.02.2012
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, presented the Commission's proposal for the new 'Creative Europe' programme at the Berlinale International Film Festival on 11/12 February. The Commission has proposed a budget of €1.8 billion over the 2014-2020…
MEDIA at Berlinale 2012
09.02.2012
Berlinale projects supported by MEDIA CO-PRODUCTION MARKETMEDIA action line "access to market"MEDIA Market access scheme (7,3M€ per year) co-finances (50%) almost all major coproduction and film financing market as well as finished films sales markets in Europe. To complement this "physical" meetings…
Representative of MEDIA Distribution at Karlovy Vary IFF
21.06.2010
MEDIA Desk Czech Republic and Film Industry Office of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival offer consultations with Lena Efstathiou, representative of the MEDIA Programme - Distribution sector.You can meet Lena Efstathiou and consult the MEDIA support schemes for the distribution of European…
Czech Lions 2009
10.03.2010
On Saturday 6 March, 2010, the Czech Film and Television Academy (CFTA) presented its seventeenth annual awards - Czech Lions 2009. Both films that received the highest number of awards had been supported by the MEDIA programme. Six Czech Lion awards were presented to Marek Najbrt's Nazi occupation…
East European Forum Deadline
06.08.2009
apply for east european forum and find financing and support for your creative documentary projects application deadline: September 11 2008 www.DOCUinter.net/EastEuropeanForum EAST EUROPEAN FORUMMarking already its ninth edition, the East European Forum is the region's largest meeting…
MEDIA Distribution in Karlovy Vary
10.06.2009
MEDIA Desk CZ and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival offer Consultations with Jean - Charles Freyer, representative of the MEDIA Distribution sector. You can meet Mr. Freyer and consult the new Distribution guidelines and already running contracts on Tuesday, July 7th from 3 - 4 pm in Meeting…
MEDIA Distribution - automatic support
19.03.2009
The Call for Automatic support will be published next week.
This late publication will push the deadline from 30/04 until 29/05.
As this is just after Cannes the agency very strongly urge all distributors to apply before Cannes!
www.docalliancefilms.com - new VOD portal
09.03.2009
New online portal www.docalliancefilms.com for distribution of documentary films has been launched on March 1! Doc Alliance Films portal - www.docalliancefilms.com - is an initiative of DOC ALLIANCE, a partnership of five key European documentary film festivals: CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, IDFF…
Job available at Taskovski Films
03.02.2009
Taskovski Films, producer and world sales/distributor of independent films based in London is looking for Intarnational Sales Manager for its Prague office. Please send your CV and cover letter in English by 13 February 2009 to irena@taskovskifilms.com. For details see the attached document.
THE SIMPSONS - Seminar and Workshop
30.10.2008
MEDIA Desk Czech Republic, FAMU and Czech Film Center cordially invite you to the seminar and workshop with Bill Odenkirk and Daniel Chun - members of the creative team (producers/writers) of THE SIMPSONS. December 4 & 5, 2008 at FAMU (Prague) The programme is divided into theoretical (Seminar)…
Documentary film RENÉ won European Film Academy Award
21.10.2008
We are very happy to announce that the EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2008 - Prix ARTE award goes to the documentary film RENÉ by Helena Trestikova. René was the first Czech documentary film receiving the MEDIA Development support in 2004. The jury statement mentions the following:…
3D ANIMATION workshop in Prague
21.10.2008
BOHEMIAN 3D ANIMATION WOKSHOP is a professional training programme consisting of series of workshops, which are going to be held in November 18-22 in Prague, Czech Republic. Partners of the event are The Animation Workshop (Denmark), Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, MEDIA Desk CZ and…
TASKOVSKI FILMS - job offer
17.09.2008
Office & Festival Coordinator - CVs deadline 22 September