European film funnel launches

MOSCOW -- The Film Europe Funnel, that is devoted to screening only European films, released late Thursday to customers within the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Film Europe Media Company founder and Boss Ivan Hronec stated it is going to go region-wide. The funnel can have yearly as much as 500 European films within their original version with subtitles 24 hrs each day, 7 days per week without ads. It'll broadcast in SD via satellite, by having an HD option using fiber-optic cable. "We'll offer audiences film productions not just in the typically strong nations such as the U.K., France, Italia, Belgium and Russia, but additionally from more compact nations, for example Portugal, Denmark, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Austria as well as Liechtenstein, the second being the co-producer of 'Paris je t'aime,' which we broadcast symbolically yesterday as the initial film on our programming schedule." The funnel has been released with a company that, because it was founded six years back, has opened up 10 Television channels across Europe. Film Europe Media Company, that is independently possessed, continues to be built without government subsidies from individual nations or even the Eu, Hronec stated. "You want to reveal that the project includes a strong commercial foundation and just then can we undertake partners. This is actually the path that culture today will need to take -- responsible projects which have a proper financial approach, yet still time getting cultural and artistic value to audiences," Hronec added. In Slovakia and also the Czech Republic, project partners for that new funnel would be the satellite platform Skylink, M7 Group and Slovak Telecom, which is a unique partner at first for IPTV. Slovak Telecom includes the tv funnel included in its satellite package. Simultaneously, Slovak Telecom includes films from Film Europe in the VOD service, Magio. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com