Croatia Starts Vaccinating Film Workers
. The vaccination took place in the Croatian Music Institute in Zagreb and is expected to be the first in a series of similar actions, intended to boost audiovisual production and to restart larger-scale cultural events in Croatia.
“This is another step in getting out of the situation we have been living in for the last year. In their work, artists cannot always stick to measures and cannot keep a distance, so they and all of their technical staff must be vaccinated. With a higher percentage of the vaccinated population, conditions will be created for organising cultural events again”, said Nina Obuljen Koržinek, the Croatian Minister of Culture and Media.
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BUCHAREST: Cultural events including cinema screenings will be allowed at 50% of the cinemas capacity only for test/pilot events with the approval of the National Council for Emergency Situations, as Romania is gradually easing restrictions starting 13 May 2021.
In this case people will need to comply with one of three requirements: they have received a COVID-19 vaccine, they are between the 15th and 90th day after a COVID-19 infection or they produce a negative RT-PCR test not older than 72 hours. The methodology has been established by the Minister of Culture together with the Minister of Health.
The state of alert will continue after 13 May 2021 even if the whole country enters the green scenario on 11 May 2021 with a rate of infections lower than 1.5 for 1,000 persons.
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ZAGREB: The legendary Croatian film director/scriptwriter Bogdan Žižić died aged 86. He was one of the nation s most prominent authors for decades, helming over 100 short and documentary films.
He was the first director in Yugoslav history to win Golden Arenas at the national Pula Film Festival with both of his first feature films,
The House / Kuća, produced by Croatia film and Jadranfilm in 1975, and
Don t Lean Out the Window / Ne naginji se van, produced by the same companies in 1977.
Early in his career he positioned himself as one of the strongest voices of the Yugoslav anti-establishment cinema. Throughout his life he stayed dedicated to documenting lives of other artists and dissidents, winning international and national awards.
LJUBLJANA: The 24th Festival of Slovenian Film returns to Portorož with a new director Bojan Labović. The festival will take place 11-17 October 2021 and the submissions for the applications will be open in the second half of June 2021.
The Festival of Slovenian Film (FSF), which took place in Ljubljana in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, is returning to the coastal town of Portorož for the next three years. It will be headed by the film and television screenwriter and director Bojan Labović, who emphasised that in view of the general pressure to commercialise filmmaking and its perception, the festival would focus