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What’s the recipe for a film that makes money abroad?

17. 1. 2026 film industry

The hosts of the Pitch podcast discuss the conclusions of a study prepared by the authorial team of Petr Szczepanik and Martin Horyna for the Association of Audiovisual Producers.

You can listen to the podcast here. The study How Czech Audiovisual Works Do (Not) Travel Beyond Borders was produced as part of commissioned research conducted under an agreement between the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, and the APA. Other researchers from the CIRG group also contributed to the study (Lucie Česálková, Ivan David, Jan Hanzlík, Veronika Lengálová, Raman Samusevich, and Pavel Zahrádka).

Cirg - about

CIRG – the Cultural Industries Research Group focuses on research into cultural and media industries, particularly on current issues, challenges, and conflicts arising from tensions between intellectual property law, the business models of cultural industries, the digitalization and platformization of cultural sectors, and changing consumer habits. The group’s name is an acronym of its English title, Cultural Industries Research Group. CIRG is an informal association of experts from media studies, intellectual property law, media law, media ethics, cultural economics and cultural management, sociology of culture, and data analysis. The group operates on the basis of project-based funding through applied research projects (TAČR, NAKI, EEA and Norway Grants, OP JAK Intersectoral Cooperation), basic research projects (GAČR, ZIF Bielefeld, OP VVV Excellent Research, DFG), as well as contract research (State Cinematography Fund, Association of Audiovisual Producers).