FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Wednesday 27 August 2014 Screening Alert and Event Alert

Event Alert: 19:00 Festival Opening Ceremony and Party
26-08-2014

American Series Dig Shoots in Croatia

ZAGREB: The series Dig set to premiere on USA Network this autumn will be partially shot in Croatia for approximately two weeks starting 1 September 2014 with local company Embassy…
25-08-2014

Se-Ma-For in Production with Animated Historical Film

LODZ: Director Jarosław Konopka is working on his motion capture animated film Escape about the masscare in Volhynia of 1943 , produced by Se-Ma-For.
25-08-2014

FNE at Sarajevo IFF 2014: Turkey and Georgia Win in Sarajevo

The touching Turkish drama Song of my Mother, the story of an aging woman and her son forced to leave their native Kurdish village and live in Istanbul, received the…
25-08-2014

PRODUCTION: Bartosz Prokopowicz Shooting Chemo

WARSAW: Accomplished Polish DoP Bartosz Prokopowicz is making his feature directing debut with Chemo, a drama inspired by his wife's battle with cancer.
25-08-2014

SOFA Second Edition Focuses on VoD Projects

WROCLAW: The second edition of the SOFA workshop was all about new distribution platforms and audience building projects. The workshop's initiator Nikolaj Nikitin talked to FNE about the new challenges…
25-08-2014

Moldova to Open Film Center

BUCHAREST: The Republic of Moldova will have its own Film Center subordinated to the Ministry of Culture.
22-08-2014

Foreign Film Production Spend Doubles in Croatia

ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre estimates that international productions will spend almost 11m EUR in Croatia in 2014, almost as much as in 2012 and 2013 combined. Seven international projects…
22-08-2014

FNE at Sarajevo IFF 2014: CineLink Expands into Middle East and Mexico

SARAJEVO: The main industry event of the Sarajevo International Film Festival, CineLink, offering over 160,000 EUR in cash and in services, is expanding into new territories.
22-08-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator Focus on Distribution

American and European experts will converge in Telč for the 2014 edition of DOK.Incubator.
22-08-2014

FNE at Sarajevo IFF: Sarajevo Industry Days Lifts the Curtain on Avant Premiere

SARAJEVO: The 20th anniversary edition of the Sarajevo International Film Festival, 15-23 August 2014, marks the launch of a new Avant Premiere platform dedicated to the expansion of regional films…
21-08-2014

Czech TV Coproducing with ARTE and Discovery Channel

PRAGUE: Czech TV is coproducing three major projects with the Franco-German cultural channel ARTE and Discovery Channel: the documentary Life according to Vaclav Havel, the television miniseries Jan Hus and…
21-08-2014

Croatian Directors Confront TV with Copyright Demands

ZAGREB: The Croatian Film Directors Guild (DHFR) is launching a public debate about the difficult relationship between the filmmakers and the televisions, especially Croatian Radio and Television (HRT), regarding copyright…
21-08-2014

FNE at Sarajevo IFF 2014: Sarajevo Launches Film Fund

SARAJEVO: The Sarajevo International Film Festival currently celebrating its 20th edition (15-23 August, 2014) is launching a unique fund, focused on the cooperation between regional, European and global partners.
20-08-2014

PRODUCTION: Cătălin Mitulescu Develops Heidi

BUCHAREST: Writer/director/producer Cătălin Mitulescu, will question the situation of young women using men as vehicles for receiving nice things in life in Heidi, a feature he plans to shoot in…
20-08-2014

Sverak Film Closes in on Opening Weekend Record

PRAGUE: The new fairy tale Three Brothers by Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák had attendance of 122,000 in its opening weekend, second only to the Czech record set by the 2013…
19-08-2014

FNE at Venice IFF 2014: CEE Films in Venice Line-up

VENICE: Films from Croatia, Georgia, Romania and Poland have all scored slots in the official line-up of the 71st Venice International Film Festival 27 August-6 September 2014.
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Attention all FIPRESCI members coming to Venice IFF

FNE together with FIPRESCI will offer the ratings of all feature films in the official programme of Venice International Film Festival 2014 by FIPRESCI members attending the Festival.*
19-08-2014

PRODUCTION: Iglika Trifonova in Postproduction with False Witness

SARAJEVO: Bulgaria’s award-winning Iglika Trifoniva (Letter to America, Investigation) is in postproduction with her Hague Tribunal fiction False Witness, an ambitious coproduction between Bulgaria’s Klass Film , Holland’s Phanta Vision…
18-08-2014

FESTIVALS: Zadar Avvantura 2014 Competition

ZADAR: Ten films are screening in the international competition of first and second feature films at the Avvantura Festival taking place 23-29 August 2014.
18-08-2014