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Obituary: Binka Zhelyazkova

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-08-07

SOFIA: Bulgarian film director Binka Zhelyazkova, the leading woman filmmaker of her generation, has died at age 88.

Bulgarian TV Gets Additional Funding

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-08-07

SOFIA: Bulgaria's Council of Ministers (www.government.bg) voted to give a subsidy of 950,000 BGN (485,727 euros) to public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) for 2011. The money is in addition…

TP Emitel Gets Polish Digital Contract

Katarzyna Grynienko Bulgaria 2011-08-04

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP has signed a contract with TP Emitel to be the operator of MUX 1, the first multiplex of frequencies for Polish digital ground television, to…

Bulgarian Films Head to Sarajevo Film Festival

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-07-26

SOFIA: Bulgarian films continue their international success story with seven Bulgarian films due to participate in the 17th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival (22-30 July 2011) in the capital of…

Bulgaria’s National Film Center Reopens Grants Sessions

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-07-19

SOFIA: The National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) will hold a grants session during the second half of 2011. Due to heavy financial restrictions the normal selection process of the film finding…

Bulgaria Debates Amendment to TV and Radio Act

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-07-18

SOFIA: Legal proposals to repeal restrictions to prime time advertising and product placement on Bulgarian National Television (BNT, www.bnt.bg) and Bulgarian National Radio (www.bnr.bg) have passed a first reading at…

Cinema City Plans Second Sofia Multiplex

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-07-11

SOFIA: Cinema City International's Bulgarian unit has leased space in the Paradise Center shopping mall in Sofia with plans to open a multiplex at the end of 2011. The ten-year…

Love.net Tops Bulgarian Box Office

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-07-11

Bulgaria's first IT romantic drama Love.net (www.themovielove.net) is on its way to become the country's second most successful film. By the end of the 14th week in distribution the film…

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Sneakers

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-06-29

Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, screens in competition in Karlovy Vary's East of the West section, following a slot in the main competition…

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: There Was Never a Better Brother

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-06-29

Murad Ibragimbekov's newest film There Was Never a Better Brother is the result of the director‘s latest artistic collaboration with Maksud Ibragimbekov, one of Azerbaijan's most established writers and Murad‘s…

Bulgarian Filmmakers Appeal for Faster Reform

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-06-21

SOFIA: Georgy Stoyanov, the president of the Union of the Bulgarian filmmakers, has expressed concern about delays in the adoption of a new policy for the national film sector.

Moscow IFF Competition: Sneakers

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-06-19

Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, screens in the main competition at the Moscow IFF, before heading to Karlovy Vary IFF in July.

Film Funding Proposed in Bulgaria

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-06-05

SOFIA: The Bulgarian government has proposed 16.6 million leva for film funding in 2012, according to a statement by the Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov on 3 June 2011.

Bulgarian Cinema Screens Increase

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-05-23

SOFIA: A new report from the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (NSI) covering data from 2010 shows that Bulgarians prefer cinema to most other cultural activities. At the same time, film…

FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Bulgaria

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-05-19

Not long ago, Bulgarian programming consisted primarily of imported programmes from Brazil, the U.S., or Turkey. Within the last few years, however, international formats have become a significant part of…

FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Le Pacte to distribute Bulgarian films Island and Ave

Anna Franklin Bulgaria 2011-05-13

CANNES: Paris based international sales outfit Le Pacte has picked up both of the Bulgarian films that are screening in official selection in Cannes IFF this year. The Island directed…

EFP Producer on the Move: Borislav Chouchkov

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-05-01

Chouchkov Brothers (www.ch-bros.com), producer of the feature debut Tilt, is the second company that European Film Promotion Producer on the Move Borislav Chouchkov (35) and director Viktor Chouchkov Jr (40)…

FESTIVALS: Kalev Tapped for Directors Fortnight

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-04-19

Rising Bulgarian star director Kamen Kalev won one of two CEE spot in the Cannes 2011 Directors Fortnight, 12-22 May, with his Bulgarian/Swedish coproduction The Island. Hungarian producer Ferenc Pusztai…

FESTIVALS: Bojanov Heads to Critics Week

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2011-04-18

Konstantin Bojanov's Bulgarian-French coproduction Ave is the lone CEE film selected for the Cannes 2011 Critics Week, 12-20 May.

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court Declares Controversial Film Law Amendment Illegal

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2011-04-11

SOFIA: Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has struck down a controversial amendment to the Film Industry Act that would have reduced the government’s obligations to fund the film industry and opened the…