17/12/2020 - A total of 21 projects make up the selection, with 15 of them by female directors, while the spotlight this year is on Israel and Italy. The 21 feature-length projects in development – 11 fiction films and 10 documentaries – came after 387 applications from 56 countries, an increased number of submissions that beats last year’s record. Among the selected projects are the upc
Read MoreSlovak documentarian Tereza Nvotova, who has confronted corruption and politics in past films such as 2017’s “The Lust for Power,” found herself beached in New York during the COVID-19 outbreak in the spring, unable to return legally to her home in the Czech Republic with her partner, American actor Jacob Pitts. Then she got an assignment from public broadcaster Czech TV to film the ci
Read MoreBRATISLAVA: The young talented Slovak filmmaker Tereza Nvotová will go into production with her second fiction feature film The Nigthsiren / Svetlonoc. This Slovak/Czech/French coproduction drama received Eurimages coproduction support, announced on 6 July 2020, and a Eurimages Development Award in 2018. „We are currently preparing for production. Part of our crew is from the Czech Republi
Read MoreThe latest winner of the Eurimages Development Award at the MIA Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum in Rome was the Czech-Slovak project The Nightsiren. Writer Barbora Námerová, director Tereza Nvotová, and producers Miloš Lochman (of moloko film for the Czech Republic) and Peter Badač (of BFILM for Slovakia) reunite for this project after the success of Filthy [+], wh
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