Respekt: Most of State Cinematography Fund’s support set to go one movie for first time

An unprecedented 60 percent of the State Cinematography Fund’s annual budget to support feature Czech film production is set to go to one movie, the news site Respekt.cz reported. Some CZK 15 million from the state agency’s CZK 25 million budget has been allocated to a film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová by director Filip Renč. Respekt wrote that the decision to award the support to the film was taken despite the fact it did poorly in an evaluation of all projects submitted. Mr. Renč last month received a high state honour from President Miloš Zeman, for whom he had made a campaign ad.