interviews

PRAGUE: FNE spoke with Karel Zýka, the new Executive Director of the Audiovisual Producers' Association of the Czech Republic, about his plans for the association and the future of filmmaking in the...

Czech crews have been busy this autumn on French-Czech co-production Crossing Lines. The TV drama follows a special crime unit that hunts down criminals across Europe.

Earlier this year, Czech crews assisted Norwegian production company Moskus Film on fantasy adventure Journey To The Christmas Star. Directed by Nils Gaup, the film tells the story of young girl’s...

Established in 1994, Universal Production Partners (UPP) is the largest and most versatile visual-effects and post-production house in continental Europe. The Prague-based firm, which employs roughly 130...

Czech film crews are currently in production on Les aventures de Philibert, capitaine puceaua swashbuckler comedy in the grand tradition of the Errol Flynn adventures of the 1930s and '40s. The film is an...

On 21 June of this year, the Czech Republic introduced an incentives plan for filmmakers shooting in the Czech Republic. The Film Industry Support Programme offers rebates of up to 20% on...

Special effects expert Pavel Policar got started in commercials eight years ago. Since then he's worked in Prague on such major film productions as AvP: Alien vs Predator, both Chronicles of Narnia films and...

Q&A with producer Jesse Fryckman from the Finnish production company Bronson Club. The company has been established to create a home for the best of the new generation of filmmakers and to bring edgy and...

Following the blockbuster movie The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, partially shot in the Czech Republic in 2005, The Chronicles of Narnia returned to Prague with its sequel Prince Caspian. On one of the...

Q&A with Danish producer Morten Kaufman from the production company Nimbus Film Productions, which is one of the major players in Danish cinema and is celebrated for several Dogme films (especially...