The Governments of countries of Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic) agreed to establish International Visegrad Fund with its seat in Bratislava on June 9, 2000. The purpose of the Fund is to promote development of closer cooperation between the V4 countries through supporting common cultural, scientific and educational projects, exchanges between young people, cross-border cooperation and tourism promotion.

The International Women’s Film Festival presents the latest in short and long films of all genres made by women directors. The festival is the result of a merger between the two film festivals of femme totale (Dortmund) and Feminale (Cologne). With a total of around 100 films and a number of international film competitions, the new festival presents a broad-based programme of both current and historical films made by women.The festival awards the debut prize Horizonte, presents special programs on specific themes and provides a platform for discussing current topics. The festival is divided into the following sections: 1 Horizons - International competition for first long fiction films by women directors; the best debut will be awarded the prize of 10,000 euros. The Audience Award is also presented in this section; 2 Panorama - Current international films and videos made by women directors. Long and short films, documentaries, animation and experimental films; 3 Queer Looks - International films on GLBT issues, 4 Focus, 5 Special thematic programmes.

The Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film (ITFS) was founded in 1982 and is one of the world’s largest and most important festivals for animated film. Cash prizes worth more than 70,000 Euros are presented in nine competition categories. The ITFS works closely with the FMX, Europe’s largest conference for animation, effects, games and digital media (18th Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Transmedia), and organises the Animation Production Day business platform in co-operation with the FMX and Michael Schmetz Media Consult.

In the end of XX century at the film studio in Sverdlovsk (nowadays’ Yekaterinburg) a team of prominent filmmakers worked. Among them there were Andrey Anchugov, Serguey Miroshnichenko, Andrey Zhelezniakov, Georgiy Negashev, Boris Kustov, Aleksey Fedorchenko and other filmmakers whose films have received a lot of prizes at major European and American festivals. They all had the same desire to tell the truth about Soviet Union and to focus on life of ordinary people who had never been in the center of documentary filmmakers’ attention before. In their films they all used filming methods introduced by American filmmaker Robert Flaherty in his film “Nanook of the North”. Long-term follow-up and «habitual» camera has become directing platform for Severdlovsk documentary school. The Flahertiana festival named after this American filmmaker rests upon principles first used by Robert Flaherty in his film “Nanook of the North”. These are films where the hero lives on the screen a part of his life directed by the author according to the laws of dramatic art. All decisions of the festival selection commission, which consists of film critics Viktoria Belopolskaya and Marina Drozdova and filmmakers Boris Karadzhev and Pavel Petchenkin, are made based on these principles. The first edition of the festival was held in 1995 and until 2006 it was held once in two years. That time it was more like theoretic workshop not competition. Since 2006 the festival officially became annual international documentary film festival with international competition jury and FIPRESCI jury. The festival laureates are awarded in the following nominations: * Grand Prix for the best documentary of the festival * Award for the best long documentary * Award for the best short documentary * FIPRESCI Award Besides main competition program there is “Russian Flahertiana” program which includes best Russian films of Flahertiana aesthetics. The winner of the program is determined based on audience voting. The festival prize fund amounts to 500,000 rub. Perm Krai Government is the main sponsor of the festival.

The company was founded on 1 April 1993 by Trebitsch Produktion Holding GmbH and CO KG Hamburg and Panonia Film Co. Budapest. The vast majority of the business is generated by the production and licensing of Hungarian cartoons to foreign customers. Interpannonia represents the film library of several European and American companies for the Hungarian video, DVD and TV market.

INTERSCIENCE FILM is a German-French production company with headquarters in Heidelberg, Berlin and Paris. Managing director is the author and director Gero von Boehm, who founded, together with his wife Christiane, the company in 1978. Since then INTERSCIENCE FILM produced documentaries, docu-dramas, talk shows and magazines on topics from the fields of art, culture, science, history and current affairs. Another focus is on film portraits of eminent personalities of contemporary history. For the cultural channel 3Sat INTERSCIENCE FILM produces since 2002 every month the series Gero von Boehm meets…. INTERSCIENCE FILM works regularly for ZDF, Arte, 3Sat, WDR, NDR, FRANCE 2, and the RAI. Outstanding productions in recent years include the the series “Palaces of power I and II” (2004 and 2007), the docu-drama “Karol Wojtyla - secrets of a pope” with Michael Mendl and Mario Adorf (2006), the docu-drama series ” Giants “with Maximilian Schell, Uwe Ochsenknecht and Matthias Habich (2007) and the series” Between the frontlines” with Peter Scholl-Latour (2008) for ZDF. Since January 2008 INTERSCIENCE FILM produces for ARTE the cultural talk Paris-Berlin, the debate in which, moderated by Thea Dorn, current issues of politics and culture are discussed. In the 30 years since its creation INTERSCIENCE FILM has built up and follow up with a world wide network of directors, collaborators and contacts.

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Established in 1991, Intersonic, s. r. o. is engaged in the operation of cultural and cultural-educational facilities, retail sales and rental of audio and audiovisual recordings and blank recording material, advertising and marketing, production, reproduction, recording and distribution of audio and audiovisual recordings, wholesale and retail and video distribution. Films distributed in recent years include V tieni Beethovena (‘Copying Beethoven’, 2006), directed by Agnieszka Holland, Hrdinovia z ríše Gaya (‘Back to Gaya’, 2004), directed by Lenard Fritz Krawinkel, Yes meni (‘The Yes Men’, 2003), directed by Dan Ollman and Sarah Price, Putovanie tučniakov (‘Le Marche de l'Empereur’, 2004), directed by Luc Jacquet, and Moje leto lásky (My Summer of Love, 2005), directed by Pavel Pawlikowski.

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Interspace is a New Media Art Centre, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Interspace was founded in 1998 as a non-profit association of professional artists, IT engineers, do-it-yourself media makers. The server for Bulgarian Art and Culture – envisioned as an independent cultural media channel, community network, building web infrastructure for contemporary arts & culture, including free hosting production and co-production of individual and group artistic projects, events in Arts & Culture (conferences, exhibitions, presentations, public art shows, etc.), providing access to technology facilities and support for organizations and artists.

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INTROSPEKT is a young independent production company focusing on creative documentaries, feature films and short works.

The Agency is an independent body set up by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. It runs the Film in Iceland project that wants to introduce Iceland as an interesting location for foreign filmmakers - it is possible to apply for reimbursements of 12% of the costs incurred in the production of films and television programs in Iceland.

Since 1990 Invideo has established itself as an international benchmark for the full range of audiovisual production connected to electronic art and new technologies. From the outset, the aim has been to create in Milan a permanent archive of non-fiction art from around the world - video art, research and experimental film and video, documentaries, music, theatre and dance video, portraits of artists, etc. Every year the organizers select outstanding Italian and international works that are acquired for the archive and presented to audiences. As part of the annual event, alongside the rich and varied programme of screenings, there are meetings with videomakers, introductory presentations to premieres, debates, retrospectives, performances and video installations.

iofilm is a film ezine, founded in 1998; its daily coverage includes film and DVD reviews, features, interviews, competitions, festivals coverage and articles on filmmaking.

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