CEE Animation Forum (5–8 May, Liberec, Czech Republic) is a co-production pitching, B2B and networking event with the intention to boost the projects´ international circulation potential, visibility and their access to a wider European market. For its 2020 edition, the organisers have expanded the number of categories open to animated projects in development. The deadline for submission 10 January 2020. The ...

Alex Gomez chose Alena Čadová's short script Knock, Knock to film a grotesque horror movie. The shooting in Miami was finished in May this year. The final $ 4500 are required for final postproduction. Alena Čadová has been scoring for some years with her screenplays at film festivals, and now finally a director noticed her work too.  A short grotesque horror film about a mortician who experiences a ver ...

EXPERIMENTAL FILM – NETART – Window to the Past: Searching for contemporary Czech Internet art: 11th PAF invitation (6.–9. 12. 2012) –  MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – translated by JIŘÍ SLAVÍK – This essay was written at the turn of the year 2012, when the 11th PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary art in Olomouc had been being prepared. One of the curated festival section aimed at introducin ...

The seventh edition of the CEE Animation Forum (formerly known as Visegrad Animation Forum) will showcase thirty-three animated projects in development in three categories: short films, series / TV specials and feature films. The majority of selected teams are coming from Central and Eastern Europe – the Czech Republic 6x, Hungary 3x, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Romania 2x, Slovenia, Latvia ...

INTERVIEW with the analog collective Unzalab Milano – MILAN KROULÍK – Last year the analog collective of Unzalab Milano was invited to the 3rd Marienbad Film Festival. The collective's main members are Tiziano Doria, Massimo Mosca, Carlo Tartivita, Alice Vercesi, Samira Guadagnuolo and Franco Base Tartaglia, its founder. They often collaborate with different musicians, as for example with Giuseppe Chito, wh ...

The winners of EDP awards were announced during the ceremony at Tibet Open House on Mar 14. The international jury awarded Museum of the Revolution (dir. Srđan Keča) with the main prize, the East Doc Platform Award, the project also got IDFA Forum Award. For the 8th year, the biggest platform for Central and East European documentaries took place in Prague on March 9–15. Approximately 350 film professionals ...

Last year, it was one hundred years since The Sinking of the Lusitania by Winsor McCay, considered by historians to be the first animated documentary. Since then, this hybrid and sometimes controversial genre has changed and evolved. Popular films include the recent Another Day of Life or Waltz with Bashir released some years ago. Czech animation is represented by Diana Cam Van Nguyen, whose short film Apar ...

Visegrad Animation Forum (VAF) has been the largest platform for the animation industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the course of its six-year existence, it has managed to build a strong base of film professionals and welcome over 150 participants from all over Europe in Třeboň every year. The Central and Eastern European region operates on very similar historical, artistic and economic fundaments. ...

CEE Animation Workshop is a year-long programme of training, project development and networking for producers and their creative teams, focusing on animated or hybrid projects of all lengths and types (shorts, features, series). The aim is to provide tutoring in the field of content development, starting with script consultancy, as well as artistic and production consultancy. Lectures and presentations of r ...

REPORT: Marienbad Film Festival (28. 8. – 1. 9. 2018, Mariánské lázně, Czech Republic) – MILAN KROULÍK What I remember most distinctly after arriving at the famous spa town of Marienbad is how fresh the air smelled. It was like walking in the woods. The constant drizzle over the next few days kept this fresh atmosphere in the air. But, alas, the question is, how much this breath of fresh air was carried by ...