French Sales Company Wide Management picks up The Mole

WARSAW: Paris based international sales outfit Wide Management has added Rafael Lewandowski’s The Mole to its strong line-up. The Mole with will be released theatrically in Poland on 5 August…
27-07-2011

Six Degrees in Production

WARSAW: The team behind the award-winning Rabbit a la Berlin has begun shooting the concept documentary Six Degrees, which takes a literal and exploratory look at the theory that everyone…
22-07-2011

FESTIVALS: 11th IFF New Horizons Opens

WROCLAW: The 11th New Horizons Film Festival www.nowehoryzonty.pl (21-31 July 2011) opened with Berlinale winner Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a…
21-07-2011

TVN Picks Up Minute to Win It

WARSAW: Private broadcaster TVN is working on a Polish version of the American game show Minute To Win It.
21-07-2011

UOKiK Restricts Sale of Aster Cable

WARSAW: Polish Office of Consumer and Competition Protection (UOKiK) set conditions to prevent UPC from monopolizing the Polish cable television market after taking over cable broadcaster Aster.
20-07-2011

FESTIVALS: New Horizons Hosts Workshops

WROCLAW: The second edition of the New Horizons Studio takes place 23-26 July 2011, during the 11th New Horizons Film Festival, opening 21 July in Wroclaw.
20-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Animated Kreskostoria in Production

WARSAW: Xantus Studio is working on Kreskostoria (Linestory), a original cartoon series about Polish history for cinema and television release. The film will be an entertainment and educational series presenting…
19-07-2011

Poland Announces 2011 Grants

The Polish Film Institute has announced grants for 22 films, for a total of PLN 10 million. Included are production grants for four feature films, six documentary films, and one…
19-07-2011

Poland Approved Digitalization Bill

WARSAW: Polish President Bronisław Komorowski has approved a "digitalization" bill ending the use of analogue transmitters in Poland by June 2013.
18-07-2011

Ten Projects Selected for Polsh-Norwegian Coproduction Forum

WROCLAW: Five Polish film projects and five Norwegian film projects have been chosen to participate in the Polish-Norwegian Co-production Forum, taking place 26-28 July 2011 during the 11th New Horizons…
17-07-2011

Poland Selects In Darkness as Oscar Entry

WARSAW: The Polish Oscar selection committee has unanimously selected W ciemności (In Darkness) by Agnieszka Holland as the Polish candidate for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film…
13-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Fifth Season of the Year Begins Filming

The Polish director Jerzy Domaradzki is in production with Fifth Season of the Year, an unusual love story taking place in Silesia.
13-07-2011

Viacom Premieres New Channel in Poland

Viacom International Media Networks will launch its new international entertainment channel Viacom Blink! in Poland on 20 July 2011.
12-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Polish Sibiriad in Postproduction

WARSAW: Janusz Zaorski finished shooting his new drama Polish Sibiriad (Syberiada Polska), a major production devoted to a dark period in Polish history, on 1 July and has now entered…
12-07-2011

Poland's TVN for Sale

WARSAW: Polish media reports that a controlling interest in commercial TV station TVN is for sale. Majority stakeholder ITI Group announced that it had hired bankers to field interested buyers.
10-07-2011

Cartoon Forum Registers 600

SOPOT, POLAND: Over 600 participants, including 100 broadcasters and 130 buyers/distributors are registered for Cartoon Forum (www.carton-media.eu), taking place 13-16 September 2011 in Sopot in northern Poland.
08-07-2011

FNE at New Horizons: Separation to Open Festival

The winner of the 2011 Golden Bear in Berlin, Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi will open the Wrocław-based New Horizons (www.nowehoryzonty.pl) film festival on the 21 July…
03-07-2011

Andrzej Muszyński to head ATM Grupa

WARSAW: One of Poland's largest production companies ATM Grupa S.A. selected Andrzej Muszyński as President of the Board at its General Meeting.
29-06-2011

TVP1 Picks up Polish Millionaires Series

The Polish public broadcaster TV Polska has commissioned the first season of a local series Residency that is being touted as the Polish Dynasty.
27-06-2011

FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Jeż Jerzy: The Movie

Jeż Jerzy: The Movie brings one of Poland's most popular comic book characters, a hedgehog, to life in a long-awaited film that employs the best tradition of the Polish school…
27-06-2011