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Polish films win top Tokyo prize

FNE Staff Poland 2008-10-30

Two Polish productions won the Grand Prix and the Special Jury Prize at the 21st Tokyo Film Festival.

Polish Pixels in four perspectives

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2008-10-27

Pixels, an absurd comedy about contemporary Poland will finish shooting on October 30.

Directing duo wraps road movie

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2008-10-27

The shoot for Miracle Seller, a Polish road movie from a pair of music video directors, wraps filming on the 30th of October 30.

Polish dramatist debuts in 30 Minutes

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2008-10-23

Krzysztof Bizio moves from scriptwriter to director with All of Anna's Lies, which began filming October 20.

Bollywood movies drive Polish newspaper sales

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2008-10-23

After finding marketing success by offering movie collections along with the daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, the newspaper has found a new marketing tool: Bollywood movies.

Strawberry Wine reaps festival success

FNE Staff Poland 2008-10-22

Dariusz Jablonski's Strawberry Wine took home the audience award from the 16 Trzyniec film festival in the Czech Republic before screening at the Haifa film festival.

BooBoo in the Land of Bears and Palms

Katarzyna Pachelska from CentEast Poland 2008-10-21

Agencies selling films abroad, institutions common in the West, are still as rare in Poland as snow in Havana.

Opus Film Sees Potential in Young Artists

Agnieszka Wisniewska from CentEast Poland 2008-10-21

The films presented at this year's CentEast Market included My Flesh, My Blood by debuting director Marcin Wrona, a project involving Opus Film, one of Poland's largest production companies.

Festival winners also market winners in Warsaw

By Jorn Rossing Jensen in Warsaw Poland 2008-10-20

Three award winners at the 24th Warsaw International Film Festival were also screened in the CentEast Market Warsaw programme, which ran during the latter half of the Warsaw festival.

Polish films: still finding a way to the international market

Katarzyna Pachelska from CentEast Poland 2008-10-20

Although more full-length features are being made in Poland in recent years, still very few of them find their way to distribution in other countries.

Two Polish films will vie for Golden Globes

Krzysztof Kwiatkowski Poland 2008-10-19

Jerzy Skolimowsk's Golden Globe hopeful Four Nights with Anna could find competition at home: recently announced Oscar candidate Tricks is also hoping to be entered in the Golden Globe foreign…

The Polish Film Institute: first production, then promotion

Toma Peiu Poland 2008-10-19

"The Warsaw International Film Festival is one of our priorities when it comes to film-related events," says Jacek Fuksiewicz, Deputy Director for Film Production at the Polish Film Institute.

TVP business buzzes at MIPCOM

Cathy Meils Poland 2008-10-16

Public broadcaster Polish Television (TVP) is doing brisk business at MIPCOM, running October 13-17

End of Uncertainty for Warsaw Film Festival

Katarzyna Pachelska Poland 2008-10-16

The 24th Warsaw International Film Festival is turning out to be a breakthrough edition in terms of the event's financing.

Treat on "Tricks”

Ola Salwa Poland 2008-10-16

Andrzej Jakimowski's second feature, Tricks, is the topic of CentEast's distribution panel discussion, taking place October 17 as part of the 4th CentEast Market Warsaw (October 15-19).

Maciej Slesicki starts shooting his "minute trilogy"

Katarzyna Grynienko Poland 2008-10-15

Maciej Slesicki attempts to create a universal image of contemporary Poland in his new trilogy under the umbrella title Three Minutes.

Hebrew Waltz in Warsaw

Ola Salwa Poland 2008-10-15

An Israeli animated film about the surrealism of war and the marvels of memory, Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir opened the 24th Warsaw Film Festival on 10 October.

Adyton racks up sales at MIPCOM

Cathy Meils at MIPCOM Poland 2008-10-14

Adyton International CEO Dariusz Zawislak is counting the reasons for renting a booth at the EU Media stand at MIPCOM, running through October 17.

How Tricks did the trick – and what comes after

Jorn Rossing Jensen in Warsaw Poland 2008-10-14

"Film from Eastern Europe are still overlooked, undervalued, badly promoted and - with noble exceptions - play only a marginal, if any, role in the international art house and television…