Mira Fornay, the director of the successful film Foxes, screened at numerous film festivals worldwide (Venice IFF, Pusan IFF, Warsaw IFF, Stockholm IFF, Rotterdam IFF), was selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market with her new project My Dog, Killer. Mira developed the project as a fellow in the Nipkow programme, presented it at Mannheim Meetings 2009 and won the Main Prize in the Fiction Feature Film category of the Slovak national Tibor Vichta Award Screenplay Contest 2009.
Two Slovak production companies - TRIGON PRODUCTION and ALEF FILM will present their projects in development supported by MEDIA Programme within this year Share Your Slate (Feb 13 - 17, 2010).
From Feb 14 to 17, 2010 the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB) will for the 3rd time during Berlinale, present its series Cinema Total: a networking platform with filmmakers and producers.
Guests – Hauerland - new documentary by Vladimír Štric will be presented on February 16, 2010 at 6 p.m in the Slovak Institute, Zimmerstrasse 27, Berlin.
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