PRODUCTION: Shia LaBeouf to Shoot The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman in Romania

BUCHAREST: Fredrik Bond's first feature The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman will bring Shia LaBeouf, Evan Rachel Wood, Melissa Leo, Mads Mikkelsen, Til Schweiger and James Buckley to Bucharest. Shooting…
29-04-2012

FESTIVALS: The House Takes Top FINALE Award

PLZEN: The House (www.fogndesirefilms.cz)by debuting Slovak director Zuzana Liova won the Golden Kingfisher for best film at the 25th FINAL (www.festivalfinale.cz) festival of Czech Films.
29-04-2012

Bulgaria’s National Film Center Increases Funding

SOFIA: Bulgaria's main film body, the National Film Center (NFC, www.nfc.bg) announced that it will double the amount of money available for the first round of grants in 2012, from…
29-04-2012

Autlook, Sideways Pick Up Wajda Studio Films

{mosimage}Three documentaries from Wajda Studio (www.wajdastudio.pl), Losing Sonia by Radka Franczak, Paparazzi by Piotr Bernas and 3 Days of Freedom Lukasz Borowski, have signed deals with international sales agents at…
27-04-2012

PRODUCTION: Border Doc Mama Europe in Postproduction

LJUBLJANA: Slovenian producer Petra Seliškar is in post-production with a creative documentary humorously and personally confronting the borders of Europe. This 60 minute/90 minute film is a sequel to Seliškar's…
26-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Alois Nebel

{mosimage}PLZEN: Tomas Lunak makes an impressive debut with the black-and-white rotoscope animated film Alois Nebel based on a Czech graphic novel and screening in the Czech Feature Film Competition at…
25-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Gypsy

{mosimage}PLZEN: Martin Sulik, who received a five-film tribute at the Czech nation film festival FINALE, presents his multiple award winner Gypsy in the main competition.
25-04-2012

PRODUCTION: Slovenian Box Office Champ Preps New Film

LJUBLJANA: After Izlet/A Trip, a hit in the Slovenian cinemas, 26-year-old director Nejc Gazvoda is preparing his second feature, Dual, a Slovenian-Dutch-Croatian co-production.
25-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: District League – Pepik Hnatek’s Last Stand

{mosimage}PRAGUE: The current Czech box office hit District League - Pepik Hnatek's Last Stand screens in competition at the 25th FINALE festival of Czech Films (www.filmfestfinale.cz).
24-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Nothing Against Nothing

{mosimage}PLZEN: Director Petr Marek screen his thirty-something film Nothing Against Nothing in the main competition of the Czech national film festival FINALE, running through 28 April 2012. The film is…
24-04-2012

Slovenian Box Office Hit The Trip Gets Croatian Distribution

{mosimage}LJUBLJANA: The coming of age drama and first feature of Nejc Gazvoda, which has had over 12,000 admissions in Slovenia since its premiere in January 2012, will be released in…
24-04-2012

PRODUCTION: Musical Documentary My World Is Upside Down

LJUBLJANA: Slovenian director/producer Petra Seliškar is currently shooting a 52/90 minute Slovenian-Italian-Austrian musical documentary inspired by the personality of Frane Milcinski Ježek, known as the Slovenian Charlie Chaplin.
24-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Long Live the Family

{mosimage}PLZEN: Director Robert Sedlacek, whose TV film Men in Rut was a surprise hit at the 2010 FINALE festival of Czech films, returns to the 25th FINALE with a satiric…
23-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Oldies But Goldies

{mosimage}PLZEN: Current Czech box office hit Oldies But Goldies directed by Jiri Strach screens in the main competition of the Czech national film festival FINALE (www.datakal.filmfestival.cz), running through 28 April…
23-04-2012

FNE Interview with Slovak Best Film Winner Michal Kollar

{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer Michal Kollar was recently awarded Slovakia's national Oscar equivalent, Best Film at Then Sun in a Net (http://www.slnkovsieti.sk) awards for The House by Zuzana Liova. Kollar is…
23-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Four Suns

{mosimage}PLZEN: Czech director and screenwriter Bohdan Slama brings his Sundance screened drama Four Suns to Plzen, where it screens in the main competition of the national Czech film festival FINALE.
22-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: The House

{mosimage}PLZEN: Following its recent Best Film win at the Slovak national The Sun in a Net awards, The House by Slovak director/writer Zuzana Liova screens in the main competition of…
22-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: A Night Too Young

{mosimage}PLZEN: A Night Too Young (Prilis mlada noc), the first feature film from Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu, competes at the FINALE Plzen, after its 29 March 2012 theatrical release in…
22-04-2012

FNE at FINALE Plzen: Flower Buds

{mosimage}PLZEN: Flower Buds (Poupata), the debut film from Zdenek Jirasky and big winner at the Czech Lion film awards (www.vac.cz), goes up against nine other film in the main competition…
22-04-2012

Lithuania Approves National Film Centre

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian government approved the formation of a Lithuanian Film Centre on 19 April 2012, following upon the December 2011 passage of a new film law which paved the…
20-04-2012