Cinematik Announces Line Up

PIEŠTANY: The 10nd Cinematik Film Festival (10-15 September 2015) will run its regular competitions Meeting Point Europe and Cinematik.doc, and will focus this year on the Catalan cinema.
31-08-2015

Test Wins Love is Folly International Film Festival

VARNA: Alexander Kott’s Test was awarded Best Film at the 23rd Love is Folly International Film Festival organized by the Congress and Festival Centre-Varna from 21 to 30 August 2015.
31-08-2015

European Commission Launch Crowdsourcing Subtitling Preparatory Action

BRUXELLES: European Commission is launching a 1 m EUR hunt to find out how crowdsourcing or other innovative solutions can reduce the costs of obtaining subtitles and increase the exposure…
31-08-2015

Divan Film Festival Wraps in Romania

CETATE: The 6th Divan Film Festival wrapped on 30 August 2015 after a 9 days full of movies, conferences and food. The festival focusing on the tasting of Balkan cinema…
31-08-2015

Croatia Selects The High Sun as its Oscar Bid

ZAGREB: Croatian Society of Film Workers selected The High Sun/Zvizdan by Dalibor Matanić to represent Croatia in the Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards.
28-08-2015

Slovak/Czech Doc Scores High in Cinemas

PRAGUE: Miro Drobný’s new documentary Rytmus, the Urban Dream /Rytmus, sídliskový sen had 15,000 admissions in Czech cinemas and ended in the second position last weekend, after the American comedy…
28-08-2015

Polish Court to Rule on Polański’s Extradition Request on 22 September

WARSAW: A Polish court due to rule on a US request to extradite filmmaker Roman Polański will sit on 22 September 2015.
28-08-2015

PRODUCTION: Second Part of Witnesses Trilogy Wraps Shooting in Romania

BUCHAREST: Costa Fam wrapped shooting for Brutus, the second part of his war trilogy Witnesses, with Alien Film providing services. The 90-minute trilogy will be released in 2016.
28-08-2015

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOKU.ARTS Sees Architectures in Motion

The ninth edition of DOKU.ARTS entitled Architectures in Motion will take place in the Zeughauskino of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin from 9 to 27 September 2015.
28-08-2015

PRODUCTION: International Coproduction Kebab Royal Wraps Shooting

SOFIA: The Belgian/Dutch/Bulgarian dramatic comedy Kebab Royal by Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens entered postproduction.
27-08-2015

Foreign Productions Flock to Malta

VALLETTA: An American blockbuster starring Dustin Hoffman could be shot in Malta later this year. Malta Film Commission has neither confirmed nor denied the information, but announces instead the shooting…
27-08-2015

EFA Expresses Shock About the 20-Year Verdict for Oleg Sentsov

More Than 1,000 Supporters Across Europe Signed Letter to Free Oleg Sentsov
27-08-2015

CentEast Submissions Deadline Approaches

WARSAW: Submissions deadline for works-in-progress and completed films from Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine for the 11th CentEast Market is 4 September…
27-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Record Number of Domestic Films Submitted for Portoroz FF

PORTOROZ: A total of 97 out of 146 submitted films have been selected for the 18th Slovenian Film Festival. This is a record number for the festival that will run…
26-08-2015

Discovery Channel in Production with First Polish Series

WARSAW: The documentary mini-series Polish Truckers is the first show produced by Discovery Channel in Poland.
26-08-2015

HBO Romania Announces Winners of its Original Series Script Contest

BUCHAREST: The Duty / Datoria by Laurenţiu Gabriel Rusescu won the first edition of the script contest for original series, The First Episode, launched by HBO Romania on 17 February…
26-08-2015

More Than 1,000 Supporters Across Europe Sign Letter to Free Oleg Sentsov

In the face of a verdict of the Ukrainian filmmaker expected for tomorrow – prosecution has called for 23 years – supporters, institutional and individual, have gathered well over 1,000…
26-08-2015

FESTIVALS: Istanbul Film Festival Appoints New Director

ISTANBUL: Azize Tan, who has been the director of the Istanbul Film Festival for the last nine years, will be replaced by her assistant Kerem Ayan.
25-08-2015

Popular Italian TV Series to Be Shot in Malta

VALLETTA: Task Force 45 - Friendly Fire, a popular Italian TV series starring Raoul Bova, will be filmed in various locations in Malta starting this week. Ino Bonello of White…
25-08-2015

SOFA Trains Eight Young Film Agents in Wroclaw

WROCLAW: SOFA, School of Film Agents has invited eight young film agents for a ten-day workshop training to Wroclaw, Poland, from 21 to 30 August 2015. The participants are from…
25-08-2015