Polish-Norwegian Salt in production

KRAKOW: A Polish coal mine in Wieliczka near Krakow will be a setting for a challenging new Polish Norwegian production titled Salt which combines dance, special effects and puppet theatre.
18-01-2013

TVP series sold to over 10 countries

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP will sell the license for Into Deep Water to Europe, Middle East and Australia.
17-01-2013

PRODUCTION: Polish Documentary Shooting in USA

ŁÓDŹ: The Sound of Nature – The Nature of Sound, a documentary directed by Jacek Piotr Bławut is scheduled to film between March 2013 and January 2014 in United States.
16-01-2013

Traction Media Picks up Borcuch’s Lasting

WARSAW: L.A. based Traction Media will handle North American rights for Jacek Borcuch’s fourth feature film Lasting which premieres on 20 January 2013 in competition at Sundance IFF.
15-01-2013

PRODUCTION: New Pasikowski project based on controversial Cold War spy Ryszard Kuklinski

WARSAW: Władysław Pasikowski is following his controversial Aftermath with a new drama Jack Strong, based on the life of colonel Ryszard Kukliński.
14-12-2012

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Wajda School’s Ekran 2013 Training Call Open

The application deadline for Ekran, a training programme organized by Wajda Studio and Wajda School, is 21 January 2013. Participation is free.
14-12-2012

PRODUCTION: City'44 goes into production

WARSAW: After six years of development, Jan Komasa started work on a contemporary drama on the Warsaw Uprising.
13-12-2012

TVP invests in hybrid television

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP (www.tvp.pl) has launched the first HbbTV applications. The Polish pubcaster started broadcasting in hybrid mode on 10 December 2012 on all it's digital ground channels.
13-12-2012

Krakow Film Fest Silver Dragons winners join Oscars list

WARSAW: Krakow Film Festival’s Sliver Dragon winners have been added to the list of qualifying awards for the Academy Awards nominations in the short film category.
12-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Polish musical quasi-documentary in production

WARSAW: Aleksander Dembski is working on his quasi-documentary I Love You Like Ireland about a Polish band Kobranocka.
12-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Polish débutantes work on a film portrayal of Warsaw

WARSAW: Shooting has just started on Warsaw Stories, a feature drama directed by five young Polish filmmakers.
11-12-2012

Film Spring Open Aims to Democratize Production

WARSAW: Film Spring Open (www.filmspringopen.eu/previs.html), a new system for creating "previsualizations" (or Previs) for feature proposals, is hoped to boost both the prospects of indie filmmakers and the number of…
07-12-2012

War Witch Wins at Plus Camerimage

BYDGOSZCZ: Cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc won the Golden Frog for his work with director Kim Nguyen.
04-12-2012

PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production

WARSAW: French director Leila Ferault-Levy and Polish producer Marcin Latałło’s Camera Obscura are in production on Cenotaphe (Pomnik), an intimate documentary on crimes of genocide committed during World War II.
03-12-2012

PRODUCTION: On the Sea with Badjao Unites Poles, Germans and Brits

WARSAW: Polish, German and English crews are in production On the Sea with Badjao, a documentary that shows an ironic clash of cultures that knows no winner.
29-11-2012

Polish box office hit You Are God Dominates at Golden Duck Awards

WARSAW: Leszek Dawid's drama You Are A God won three Golden Duck awards, the oldest Polish cinema prize assigned by monthly magazine Film at a gala in Warsaw on 26…
28-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Rebellion in Postproduction in Poland

WARSAW: Director Małgorzata Kozera is in postproduction with the documentary Rebellion (Bunt) focused on the biggest anti-government riots in Eastern Europe in 1989, the year of the collapse of communism.…
27-11-2012

Polish Companies Support US Indie Projects

WROCŁAW: Five American independent films presented at the US IN PROGRESS event during the 3rd American Film Festival (www.americanfilmfestival.pl) will receive Polish support.
20-11-2012

PRODUCTION: UK theatre director MacKintosh shoots debut film Mother in Poland

WARSAW: Scottish theatre director Lee Mackintosh Jones is making his feature film debut with a Mother, a UK-financed film shot in Poland.
16-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Polish-British Coproduction in Development

WARSAW: Polish writer/producer/director Agnieszka Trzos is preparing to shoot the drama Not for Your Eyes in Poland and the UK in spring 2013.
16-11-2012