Latvian Drama The Pit Sold to HBO Europe
RIGA: Latvian director Dace Pūce’s debut feature
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.
SKOPJE: Denmark`s LevelK will manage the international sales for John Vardar vs. the Galaxy, the first Macedonian long animated film, written and dire.
SKOPJE: Open-air cinemas are gradually beginning to reopen in North Macedonia and film festivals are starting to release their dates after the long hi.
ZAGREB: The number of cinemagoers plummeted to 1,503,306 in the pandemic year of 2020, marking a 70 percent decline compared to 2019. Only two percent.
Malta’s National Book Council Launches Adaptation Fund for 2021
A Vipers Pit shooting
VALLETTA: Malta’s National Book Council has launched a call for applications for its adaptation fund, which seeks to award one project with a maximum of 200,000 EUR to cover development and production spend.
The NBC Film Adaptation Fund aims to promote Maltese literature by granting public financing for the translation onto screen of any novel, published in English or Maltese, which has won or has been shortlisted for Malta’s National Book Prize. The deadline for applications is 30 August 2021, and a panel of independent evaluators will choose the winning project.