FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition: The Courage
In The Courage, a tragic story of two brothers faced with a moral dilemma, director/writer Greg Zgliński explores the theme of courage and its consequences with brutal reality. The film…
FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition: The Mole
The Mole, the feature debut drama from documentary director Rafael Lewandowski, explores the very current theme of an ongoing investigation of people actively involved in the political events of the…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Croatia
ZAGREB: Croatian television is still struggling to find its way. The recent departure of several top executives and uneven results for attempts at new programming - as well as the…
FNE at Cracow FF 2011: Prize Winners
CRACOW: Tonia and Her Children directed by Marcel Lozinski won the main prize in the National Competition at the 51 Krakow Film Festival (www.kff.com.pl) (23-29 May 2011) for best Polish…
FESTIVALS: Estonian Animated Festival Accepting Submissions
TALLINN: Animated Dreams (www.anima.ee), the oldest and biggest Estonian animation film festival, is accepting submission through 15 August 2011. The festival takes place 16-20 November 2011.
PRODUCTION: Rosłaniec Shooting Baby Blues
Katarzyna Rosłaniec, the director of Mall Girls, is shooting Baby Blues on the topic of teen pregnancy. The shoot for the film started in the second half of May in…
FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition: Rose
Director Wojciech Smarzowski returns to Gdynia with Rose, a drama exploring a relatively recent episode in Polish history, when the habitants of Masuria became second class citizens under communist authorities…
FNE at Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition: In The Name Of The Devil
Inspired by true events, director and screenwriter Barbara Sass creates a film about crossing the limits of faith and madness behind the walls of a nunnery, In the Name of…
Zelezny Acquitted in Czech Court
PRAGUE: In connection with one of the longest and most prominent international legal cases in the Czech Republic, Vladimir Zelezny, the former Director of Central European Media Enterprises' (CME, www.cetv-net.com)…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: TV4 Picks up British Reality Format
Polish private broadcaster TV4 has commissioned the first season of Czysta Chata, a Polish version of the British reality show, How Clean Is Your House.
Czech Foreign Minister Leads Delegation to Hollywood
PRAGUE: Karel Schwarzenberg, the Czech Foreign Minister, is leading a delegation to Hollywood to promote the Czech film industry. He departs for the US on 27 May 2011 and will…
Malta TV Head Resigns
VALLETTA: The chairman of Malta's state broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service, Joseph Mizzi, has resigned. He handed in a letter of resignation earlier this week.
MTG Announces CEE Management Changes
Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se), the international entertainment broadcasting group, announced that Anders Nilsson, Chief Operating Officer of MTG, will assume responsibility for the Group's pay-TV operations in the…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Estonia
TALLINN: Estonia's three national broadcasters, public broadcaster Estonian TV (ETV, etv.err.ee, operated under ERR which also runs a national radio network),and foreign-owned commercial channels TV3 (www.tv3.ee) owned by Modern Times…
UPC to Acquire Aster
Liberty Global (www.lgi.com), the owner of UPC (www.upc.pl) cable net, is planning to buy Aster (www.aster.pl) for 2.4 million PLN. MID Europa Partners LLP (www.mideuropa.com) investment fund will sell 100%…
PRODUCTION: Mihăileanu Prepares English-language Debut
BUCHAREST: Romanian-born French director Radu Mihăileanu is developing his first English-language feature film, with plans to shoot in Los Angeles in 2012 or at the begining of 2013. The still-untitled…
PRODUCTION: Mihăileanu Prepares English-language Debut
BUCHAREST: Romanian-born French director Radu Mihăileanu is developing his first English-language feature film, with plans to shoot in Los Angeles in 2012 or at the begining of 2013. The still-untitled…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Poland
WARSAW: The Polish television market has grown into a dynamic source of original and adapted content, blazing a path for other CEE territories in shaping formats to fit local tastes.…
Slovenia Signs Coproduction Agreement with France
The Slovenian Film Center (www.film-center.si) announced that he Slovenian and French Ministers of Culture, Majda Širca and Frédéric Mitterand, have signed a film co‑production agreement in Brussels. The agreement will…
Menzel Honored in Romania
The Oscar-winning Czech director Jiri Menzel received a special award from the President of Romania Traian Basescu during a retrospective of Menzel's films in Bucharest.
