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Kids Channel Launches in Bulgaria

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-07-02

HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia's pre-school channel JimJam will launch in Bulgaria in July. The channel is first launched internationally seven months ago, and has a Central and East European feed.

Bulgarian Short Film Festival opens in Balchik

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-06-22

The sixth International Short Film Festival takes place in the Black Sea town of Balchik June 23-30. The competitive programme consists of 185 short films from 72 countries.

Advertising fuels Bulgarian media growth

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2008-06-15

Never mind the relatively high number of TV channels in Bulgaria (195): two more are to start regular broadcasts. The first is the satellite channel of Nova TV, Nova+, aiming…

Open Class Cinema Forum celebrates 10th anniversary in Sofia

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2008-06-04

The newest installment of Patrick Sandrin's film conference initiative "Regards sur le monde" (started in 2005), Impressions of Africa, attracted researchers and film lovers this weekend at the Sfumato Theatre…

Festival of European Co-productions opens May 30 in Bulgaria

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-05-28

The 13th Festival of European Co-productions opens May 30 in Sofia and runs until June 8. Organized by the Bulgarian National Film Center, this year's festival runs concurrently with a…

Bulgaria to get second HDTV service

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-05-22

Cable provider CableTEL is to launch a new four-channel HDTV service within the month. The announcement follows rival Eurocom's plan to launch three HDTV channels.

Warner Bros Dubs Moonlight at Graffitti Studio

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-05-21

Sofia's Graffitti Studio has completed dubbing for the Warner Bros TV series Moonlight. It was the first U.S. studio contract for the Bulgarian sound studio.

Bulgarian director wins HBO prize at Hot Docs

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-04-28

Bulgarian director Boris Despodov won HBO's first Emerging Artist Award for his film Corridor #8 at Canada's Hot Docs festival.

Open Class discusses industry changes

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2008-04-24

The latest of the Open Class seminars has wound up in Sofia after playing host to a number of Bulgarian filmmakers, researchers and students. The two-day seminars are organized by…

Festival time in Bulgaria

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-04-13

Three mini film festivals are playing in Bulgaria this week, with Czech and Nordic films featured in Sofia and a week of Moroccan cinema in Varna.

Nu Boyana unveils expansion plan

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2008-04-10

The board of directors of Nu Boyana Film Studios has unveiled plans to construct 10 new ultramodern stages, one of them larger than 5,000 square metres, as part of a…

Nu Boyana to finance Bulgarian student films

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-04-03

Bulgaria's Nu Boyana Studios has signed a cooperation agreement with the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) under which it will provide €35,000 to finance student films made…

Depardieu planning film in Bulgaria

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-04-01

French actor and director Gerard Depardieu will arrive in Bulgaria later this year to shoot a film, according to media reports citing producer Gianfranco Pierantoni from Nimar Studios Ltd.

The Mermaid takes top prize in Sofia

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-03-16

The Mermaid by Russian director Anna Melikian won the Best Film Award at the 12th edition of the international Sofia Film Festival, according to the Bulgarian news agency BTA. The…

Sofia IFF features Russia, Holland (update)

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-03-04

The 12th Sofia International Film Festival, to be held March 6-12, will focus on the cinemas of two nations - Russia and the Netherlands, the organizers announced on Feb. 27.…

Bulgaria back in Berlinale

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2008-02-08

Corridor #8 directed by Boris Despodov is the first Bulgarian film in six years to enter the official selection of the Berlin International Film Festival. The film will have its…

International talent agency sets up in Bulgaria

Patricia Koza Bulgaria 2007-12-06

Four film professionals have established an international talent agency to meet a growing demand for representation in the Bulgarian film industry, and they have plans to unite talent throughout Central…

David Lynch does his TM bit in Bulgaria

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2007-11-13

Award-winning cult director David Lynch came to Bulgaria this week to open a transcendental meditation university - with time out to attend Cinemania 2007, Sofia's biggest autumn film festival.

Nu Boyana expansion program under way as Banderas films

Pavlina Jeleva Bulgaria 2007-11-12

Hollywood heartthrob Antonio Banderas is in Sofia this month shooting the $25 million crime thriller The Code directed by Mimi Leder at Nu Boyana Film Studios, which itself is in…

Bulgarian film wins international documentary award

FNE Staff Bulgaria 2007-11-08

A Bulgarian film, A Movie Buff at the Turn of the Century by director Petar Odadjiev, was named best international documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video festival,…