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Latvian Drama The Pit Sold to HBO Europe
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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.
(Latvian Public Broadcasting), Kultūras Rondo Local and foreign cinema projects are actively taking place in Latvia. This year there is a particularly strong demand for co-financing for foreign films in Latvia, National Film Center (NKC) told Latvian Radio May 19.
The workability of the Latvian film industry and the diversity of the local nature and urban environment are also playing an important role in the eyes of foreign cinematographers. Latvian film service providers are ready for an even larger amount of work, and the National Film Centre will focus on making it possible.
One of the ways of encouraging foreign filming in Latvia is to grant co-financing, and this is the case for both the National Film Centre (NKC) and the Riga Film Fund. The support of both co-financing program\s can be combined.
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The 25th Baltic Sea Docs is on the lookout for new projects
The 25
th edition of the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (BSD), the leading documentary training and pitching event in the Baltic countries, is scheduled to run in hybrid form from 1-12 September in Riga, Latvia, and it also aims to include a range of additional activities to celebrate this special edition. According to the current plans, most of the industry events will be held online, and BSD is looking for new projects that wish to participate, with the call closing on 11 June.
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