BUCHAREST: Ana Lungu is in production with her debut feature, The Adventures of a Dutiful Daughter / Aventurile unei fete cuminţi (working title), an independent production of Mandragora.
ZAGREB:.The Croatian Audiovisual Center (HAVC) announced five grants of 369,477 EUR/2,812,824 HRK for minority coproductions and production funding for animated films.
BUCHAREST: The resignation of Kelemen Hunor, deputy prime minister and minister of Culture on 11 July 2014 has frozen activity of the Romanian Film Center which has been without a Council of Administration since 27 May 2014.
BUCHAREST: Alex Zamm's romance A Royal Christmas is currently shooting entirely in Romania. The film is produced by Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA) with Romania's Castel Film Studios as services provider.
BUCHAREST: Director Bobby Păunescu (Francesca) finished shooting Pioneers Palace on 8 May 2014. The story is set in 1992 and involves a group of highschool friends witnessing the drama of two of their colleagues who are afraid of catching AIDS after their first sexual experience in a brothel.
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Center allotted 238,361 EUR/1.81 m HRK in project development grants to 15 projects and 20 script development grants. The Center received applications from 92 projects.
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Center (HAVC) allotted production funding to 25 projects, 13 script development grants and 8 project development grants at its 48th funding session.
LA VALLETTA: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s next film, a love story shot in the Mgarr ix-Xini bay on Malta’s Gozo island, is expected to inject almost 20 m EUR into the local economy.
ZAGREB: Serbian director Mihajlo Jevtić is shooting 4 pasoša/4 Passports a partly animated first-person documentary set against the backdrop of the former Yougoslavia of the last 30 years. The film is a German/Serbian/Croatian coproduction.
ZAGREB: The love story/dramedy that Zvonimir Munivrana is developing through Corvus Film will be directed by Goran Rukavina with shooting planned for the first half of 2016.
