TRENSIANSKE TEPLICE: Slovakia will have a domestic fairytale in cinemas in October 2014 with the premiere of Laska na Vlasku, a 15th century romance directed by Mariana Cengel Solcanska, and the first Slovak fairytale made in almost 15 years.

This year for the first time FNE together with FIPRESCI will offer the ratings of all films in the main competition and the East of the West competition of the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival programme by international critics attending the Festival.

Deadline for submitting your new documentary films to East Silver market is approaching: only two weeks left! Submit your film to the largest internationally recognized database of creative feature and television documentary films from Central and Eastern Europe.

RIGA: The Latvian Film Centre will finance seven projects under its newly introduced debut film tender.

WARSAW: Poland’s public broadcaster Polish TV has expanded its digital coverage to 99.5 percent of the population, according to the Ministry of Administration and Digitalisation.

PRAGUE: Czech TV announced the start of filming on its two-part TV film Jan Hus, starring Matej Hadek as the early 15th century church reformer, on 14 June 2014.

SOFIA: Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody are currently in Bulgaria for the filming of Septembers of Shiraz, according to local media reports.

WARSAW: The Polish pay TV market is on target to be the sixth largest in Europe, with project revenue of 1.8 billion USD in 2014.