The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced its Central Stage showcase, spotlighting works-in-progress from Central European filmmakers. The festival also launched Book-to-Screen, a new program pairing published and unpublished books with filmmakers hunting for adaptation material — signaling that literary properties are now fair game before they even hit shelves. According to Variety, this expansion reflects the festival's effort to nurture projects at earlier stages of development.

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