TV: Georgia Wins Junior Eurovision Competition

The young Georgian group Candy won the 9th Eurovision Junior competition, an annual contest for members of the European Broadcasting Union, taking 103 points for the song Candy Music.
04-12-2011

CEE Films on Show at Slovenian Animated Festival

LJUBLJANA: The 8th Animateka IFF, which kicks off 5 December 2011, puts films from Central and Eastern Europe on prominent display, with a CEE short animated film competition and a…
04-12-2011

Baltic Event Awards for Georgia, Hungary, Finland

The Baltic Event Co-Production Market presented three awards at the closing ceremony, at the conclusion of its 10th anniversary edition, which ran from 30 November - 2 December 2011. The…
04-12-2011

PRODUCTION: Blood of Blood Goes into Production for Canal+ Poland

WARSAW: Shooting has begun on Blood of Blood, an action series produced by Endemol Poland for Canal +. The show is the second original Polish television production that Canal +…
04-12-2011

FNE-IDF DocBloc: “It’s Always night, or we wouldn’t need light”

The Austrian filmmaker Ivette Löcker discusses with us her latest film Night Shifts, mysterious nights, the omnipresence of non-stop operationg surveillance cameras, the intimacy of darkness and the contamination of…
02-12-2011

PRODUCTION: Documentary Sofia’s Last Ambulance

{mosimage}SOFIA: A Bulgarian/Croatian/German coproduction, Sofia's Last Ambulance directed by Ilian Metev was presented at the 2011 Doc Launch organized by the Institute of Documentary Film in Jihlava . The documentary…
01-12-2011

Lithuania 2011 Country Profile

{mosimage}VILNIUS: Lithuania‘s recent struggles for the survival of its film industry appear to be ending at last. Lithuania continues to produce a low number of films. In 2010 there were…
01-12-2011

PRODUCTION: Piargy: Antichrist Reborn in Development

BRATISLAVA: Fledgling Slovak director Lukáš Hanulák and award-winning scriptwriter Hana Cielová (The Sixth Sentence)are co-writing the first draft of Piargy: Antichrist Reborn, a feature based on a short story by…
01-12-2011

Obituary: Andrei Blaier

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: The Romanian film director and screenwriter Andrei Blaier died in Bucharest on 1 December 2011. He was 78. After finishing his film studies in Bucharest in 1956, Blaier started…
01-12-2011

Wajda Retrospective in Berlin

{mosimage}The Wajda School (www.wajdaschool.pl) continues its celebration of the 10th aniversary of its founding with a 28 film survey of the films of Poland's master director Andrzej Wajda and his…
01-12-2011

OBITUARY: Zdenek Miler, Czech Animator

{mosimage}PRAGUE: Czech animator Zdenek Miler, who created the most beloved Czech cartoon character the Little Mole (Krtek), has died at the age of 90. Miler was born in Kladno and…
30-11-2011

PRODUCTION: Corneliu Porumboiu is Developing A Nine-Minute Interval

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Two years after Police, Adjective/Poliţist, adjectiv won Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes, Corneliu Porumboiu is writing the script of a new feature A Nine-Minute…
30-11-2011

FESTIVALS: A Simple Life Wins Black Nights

{mosimage}The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF, www.poff.ee), which ran from 18 to 30 November 2011, ended with a screening of The Tree of Life, with actress Fiona Shaw in attendance.…
30-11-2011

Gutek Receives Europa Cinemas Award

{mosimage}Roman Gutek, Polish distributor, exhibitor, and film festival director, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Europa Cinemas (www.europa-cinemas.org). He will be awarded the prize on 18 December 2011…
30-11-2011

PRODUCTION: Polish Film about Belarus in Production

WARSAW: Director Krzysztof Łukasiewicz has begun shooting Żywie Biełaruś, a Polish production about the political reality on Belarus.
30-11-2011

Obituary: Dinos Katsouridis

{mosimage}Greek Cypriot director/editor/cinematographer/producer/writer Dinos Katsouridis died on 28 November 2011 at age 84. His death in Athens was announced on 29 November. He is credited with directing 17 films, most…
29-11-2011

PRODUCTION: 7 of Hearts in Development

{mosimage} BUCHAREST: Sorin Marin, a businessman and the founder of Anonimul International Independent Film Festival (www.festival-anonimul.ro), is developing his first feature film, 7 of Hearts/7 de inimă roşie. Marin also…
29-11-2011

FESTIVALS: LIfetime Awards for Raamat and Maran

{mosimage}TALLINN: The Black Nights FF (www.poff.ee) will present Lifetime Achievement awards to two Estonian filmmakers, Rein Raamat and Rein Maran, at the closing ceremony on 30 November 2011. Raamat is…
29-11-2011

PRODUCTION: Polish 3D Thriller in Production

WARSAW: Polish director Maciej Odoliński had moved into production with Hot Date 3D. The thriller will be shot in Warsaw, Poznań and Nowy Tomyśl. Hot Date 3D follows a crook…
29-11-2011

Slovenia Country Profile 2011

{mosimage}LJUBLJANA: The 2011 year saw a strong start for the film industry in Slovenia, with the launch of the Slovenian Film Center (SFC; www.film-center.si). The new public agency replaced the…
29-11-2011