MECEFF Announces Line-up
BUCHAREST: The 4th edition of Mediaş Central European Film Festival (2-6 September), the only festival in Romania focusing on Central European cinema, announced the seven films competing for the festival's…
FESTIVALS: Czech Summer Film School Honours Greenaway
UHERSKE HRADISTE: British director Peter Greenaway has received the prize of the Association of Czech Film Clubs (AČFK) at the 40th edition of the Summer Film School (LFS) running through…
FESTIVALS: Concrete Night and Number 55 Win at Pula IFF
PULA: Pirjo Honkasalo's Concrete Night / Betoniyö has been awarded Golden Arena for Best Feature Film in the International Programme of the 61st Pula IFF, 12-26 July 2014. Number 55…
GRANTS: Georgian Animation Grants Announced
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Fund (GNFC) has announced the winners of the competition for grants national development finance for animated short films. GNFC allotted 10,568EUR/25,000GEL for five out of…
FESTIVALS: T-Mobile New Horizons Kicks
WROCLAW: The 14th edition of T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival kicked off last night opened by festival director Roman Gutek and the screening of Argentine director Damián Szifrón’s Wild…
IDF DocBloc: Czechs Back Zeman Doc
Groundbreaking Czech animation filmmaker Karel Zeman is the subject of an upcoming Czech documentary.
FESTIVALS: Sarajevo IFF Marks 20th Anniversary
SARAJEVO: Nine films are competing in the feature competition of the 20th edition of Sarajevo IFF, including three world premieres.
Pixar’s Anthony Wong teams up with Anomalia CG animators and artists for animated short Wildlife Crossing
PRAGUE: Work on CG animated short film Wildlife Crossing! has been completed.
New Head’s for Creative Europe MEDIA and EU CULT Committee
WARSAW: Lucia Recalde Langarica has been announced as the new head of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. She succeeds Xavier Troussard who stepped down at the end of June. She…
Malta Court Upholds Eviction of Mediterranean Film Studios
MALTA: The Malta Court of Appeals has upheld an eviction order against the Mediterranean Film Studios according to local media reports. The decision will open the door for the use…
Kinocola Launches VOD in Slovakia
BRATISLAVA: Kinocola, a new VOD platform, was launched in Slovakia on 22 July 2014. The platform is the creation of producer Peter Nedvedal of Filmpark and co-founder Jana Klukova.
Romanian projects in Locarno Industry Days
BUCHAREST: After winning the first edition of Transilvania Pitch Stop at TIFF Father Moves Mountains/Tatăl mută munţii by Daniel Sandu and Mariţa by Cristi Iftime will be pitched at Locarno…
PRODUCTION: Love Express. The Strange Case of Walerian Borowczyk
KARLOVY VARY: Polish-French art house filmmaker and photographer Walerian Borowyczyk is the subject of a documentary directed by Kuba (Jakub) Mikurda for Colab Pictures.
PRODUCTION: Genre Coproduction Binderiana Seeking Director
KARLOVY VARY: Producers and a scriptwriter of a proposed Czech-Polish coproduction entitled Binderiana presented the project at Karlovy Vary’s recent Pitch and Feedback forum, telling the panel that they’re still…
Ida Opens Day and Date in Czech Republic
PRAGUE: The acclaimed international hit Ida opened in cinemas in the Czech Republic on 17 July 2014 simultaneously with its VoD release.
PRODUCTION: Slovak Czech Tattooist in Development
KARLOVY VARY: Slovak producer Zuzana Mistrikova of PubRes is developing director Martin Repka’s second feature film The Tattooist (Kerkar) for a fall 2015 shoot.
PRODUCTION: Jirasky in Preproduction with Hanna and Marie
KARLOVY VARY: Czech postproduction house i/o post is producing Zdenek Jirasky’s third film Hanna and Marie following In Silence which screened at the 49th KVIFF and his awarded debut film…
PRODUCTION: My Farm is My Castle Sets October Release
KARLOVY VARY: Czech director Jiri Stejskal is in postproduction with the documentary film My Farm is My Castle.
Latvian Film Council Elects New President
RIGA: Producer and head of the Latvian Film Producers association Aija Bērziņa has been elected as chairman of Latvian Film Council.
Sam Neill Shooting Austrian SciFi in Romania
BUCHAREST: Northern Irish-born New Zealand star Sam Neill is in Romania for the filming of Andrew Goth's quantum theory thriller Deus Ex Machina shooting at MediaPro Studios.
