GRANTS: CNC to Fund Mungiu, Mihăileanu and Şerban
BUCHAREST: The Romanian National Film Centre allotted 2,430,892 EUR / 11,880,000 RON at the second grants contest of 2014 with the results announced on 9 March 2015. New projects of…
FESTIVALS: One World Festival Announces Results
PRAGUE: The juries of the 17th annual One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival have granted eight awards. Best Film 2015 went to The Look of Silence by American…
FESTIVALS: Sofia Meetings 2015 Announces Second Fiction Film Projects
SOFIA: The Sofia Meetings coproduction market this year includes projects from Bulgaria, Lithuania, Georgia, Romania and Latvia. The event, which supports first, second or third feature projects looking for financial…
Romania to Launch Location Guide Project
BUCHAREST: The New Romanian Cinema Association together with the local industry are launching Location Guide Romania, a project aiming to promote the country’s various shooting locations and production facilities.
Bulgarian National Television Opens Public Vote for Best Film
SOFIA: As part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bulgarian cinema in 2015, Bulgarian National Television has opened a public vote for Best Bulgarian Film among 100 titles.…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Euro Cinema and G8 Cinema, Sofia
This month we speak with Ina Darova, manager of the Euro Cinema and the Cultural Centre G8. Euro Cinema was founded in 2001 as a single screen Art house cinema,…
Fifty Shades Star Jamie Dornan to Play Czech Soldier
PRAGUE: British director Sean Ellis will shoot Anthropoid, a World War II thriller in the Czech Republic later this year. The film's name is a reference to the codename of…
FESTIVALS: CEE Films Selected for Cinefoundation's Atelier
CANNES: Gyorgy Kristof's Out, a coproduction between Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Latvia, and Romanian director Ionut Piturescu's feature Borders, have both been selected for Cinefoundation's Atelier in 2015. The films…
Polish Broadcasting Council Tightens Regulation of Foreign Ownership of Polish Broadcasters
WARSAW: According to a new report commissioned and published by the Polish National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT), all buyers from outside of Europe who want to acquire a stake in Polish…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: KineDok's First Screening in La Fabrika
A screening of brand new film Sugar Blues by Andrea Culkova will open a new project by IDF focused on alternative distribution of creative documentaries: KineDok Launch; March 6, 2015,…
PRODUCTION: Janusz Majewski shooting Eccentrics
WARSAW: WFDiF will produce Janusz Majewski's newest film, Eccentrics. The shoot starts on 17 March 2015.
PRODUCTION: Sex And The USSR A Double Life in Production
RIGA: Inara Kolmane is working on her archive-footage based documentary project about the intimate side of the life behind the Iron Curtain in Sex And The USSR, A Double Life/Sekss…
Under Electric Clouds Snapped Up by Russian Distributor
Russian distributor Paradiz has picked up local film Under Electric Clouds/Pod electricheskimi oblakami, a coproduction between Russia, Ukraine and Poland. The film, directed by Alexey German Jr, won best camera…
PRODUCTION: Adonis Florides Shooting Rosemarie
NICOSIA: Cypriot director Adonis Florides is in production on his new film Rosemarie which is currently shooting in Cyprus. The film is supposed to be finished late 2015.
FESTIVALS: Febiofest Presents Section to Commemorate World War II
PRAGUE: Febiofest will introduce a new section entitled Poland 44 on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in cooperation with the Polish Institute in Prague.
Obituary: Romanian Actor George Motoi Passes Away at 79
BUCHAREST: George Motoi, an actor who embodied the prototype of an intellectual in Romanian movies before 1990, passed away on 4 March 2015 at the age of 79.
Why Me? Sets Best Opening Record for a Romanian Film in Two Years
BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu’s political drama Why Me? set an opening and box office record for a domestic film in the last two years. Released on 27 February 2015, it had…
Q.E.D. Leads Gopo Nominations
BUCHAREST: Only three Romanian films are nominated in Best Film category at the 9th edition of the Gopo Awards which will be announced on 30 March 2015. Andrei Gruzsniczki's Q.E.D.…
FESTIVALS: New Artistic Director for Film Festival Cottbus
COTTBUS: Bernd Buder, currently the Programme Director of the Cottbus Film Festival, is being promoted to artistic director of the festival, a position he will hold for the next five…
Film Students Can Still Apply for Visegrad Film Forum
BRATISLAVA: The Visegrad Film Forum, which will run from 11 to 14 March 2015, is accepting applications for accreditation until 7 March 2015.
