First European Film Award nominations have been announced: the co-production title Alois Nebel (2011) by Tomáš Luňák being among the nominees.

International Documentary Film Festival Jihlava 2012 (23rd-28th 10th 2012) starts this year its 16th year and as usual, it will not be without Slovak representation.

Slovak films will be proudly presented at different festivals throughout Europe during October, as well: they will be travelling through England, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, to visit Poland, at last.

Slovak films will be present at festivals across Europe at the end of September: after the Portuguese Festroia, they will be screened in Prishtina, Kosovo and Kaunas, Lithuania.

The Slovak Film and Television Academy decided to nominate the film MADE IN ASH (orig. Až do mesta Aš) by Iveta Grófová as the Slovak entry for the Best Foreign Language Film of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) Awards, also known as the Oscars.

The international scriptwriting workshop aimed at supporting talents and developing the European scriptwriting and script editing MIDPOINT, organized for the third time by the Prague Film School FAMU, announced its winners: besides the Polish short film project The Seventh, the Slovak project Rubicon was awarded as the best feature project.

Locarno IFF´s Industry Days will present a professional program of industry screenings (including a Digital Library), a work in progress session, forums and roundtables focused on sales and distribution issues.

Just seconds away from the beautiful Regents Park and London ZOO, or only 25 minutes travel distance from the Olympic Village, the fans will have a chance to “taste” also a little bit of Slovak culture.

The 38th edition of the Summer Film School in Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic will start July 21 and will last until July 28. Several Slovak titles will appear in the programme this year.