WARSAW: A Polish court due to rule on a US request to extradite filmmaker Roman Polański will sit on 22 September 2015.
BUCHAREST: Costa Fam wrapped shooting for Brutus, the second part of his war trilogy Witnesses, with Alien Film providing services. The 90-minute trilogy will be released in 2016.
The ninth edition of DOKU.ARTS entitled Architectures in Motion will take place in the Zeughauskino of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin from 9 to 27 September 2015.
VALLETTA: An American blockbuster starring Dustin Hoffman could be shot in Malta later this year. Malta Film Commission has neither confirmed nor denied the information, but announces instead the shooting of Immediate Boarding, a French comedy by Philippe de Chauveron, for September 2015.
WARSAW: Submissions deadline for works-in-progress and completed films from Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine for the 11th CentEast Market is 4 September 2015.
BUCHAREST: The Duty / Datoria by Laurenţiu Gabriel Rusescu won the first edition of the script contest for original series, The First Episode, launched by HBO Romania on 17 February 2015.
ISTANBUL: Azize Tan, who has been the director of the Istanbul Film Festival for the last nine years, will be replaced by her assistant Kerem Ayan.
VALLETTA: Task Force 45 - Friendly Fire, a popular Italian TV series starring Raoul Bova, will be filmed in various locations in Malta starting this week. Ino Bonello of White Coral Films is servicing the production in Malta.
WROCLAW: SOFA, School of Film Agents has invited eight young film agents for a ten-day workshop training to Wroclaw, Poland, from 21 to 30 August 2015. The participants are from Serbia, Tajikistan, Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, Slovakia and Poland.
ZAGREB: HBO issued a statement confirming that the 6th season of the popular series Game of Thrones will not return to Croatia even if the fifth season is shot there this fall.
