Making it all happen While critics usually focus on directors and actors as the "creative talent" in the film-making process, producers are increasingly getting credit for the role they play. This issue, Kinoeye talks to four producers working in Europe about the issues that affect them. CZECH REPUBLIC Doing it by themselves Pavel Strnad, head of the Asociace Producentů v Audiovizi, interviewed Czech producers got so fed up with waiting for the state to support their industry through a film institute that their union, APA, went and founded one on its own steam. Ivana Košuličová talks to APA's chair about film-making conditions in the Czech Republic. GREAT BRITAIN When the dust has settled Chris Auty interviewed The Mančevski-directed epic Dust should have been a model of European film-making but drew flak for alleged racism and wasting British lottery money. Auty explains to Andrew James Horton the intricacies of the film's financing, why it will be profitable despite bombing at the box office and why he still likes it. BULGARIA Letter from Bulgaria Rossitza Valkanova interviewed Igor Pop Trajkov talks to one of Europe's few female producers about working with foreign co-producers, why the Scandinavians may have the best system and the fate of films that don't boost popcorn sales. HORROR Invasion of the mutant B-movie producers Roger Corman interviewed Corman produces less than half of his films in the US these days. The majority are shot in other locations around the globe, including Ireland, Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria. Steven Yates talks to the king of schlock about working in the Old World.

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