GRANTS: Slovakia Hands out over 30 Film Grants
BRATISLAVA: Thirteen feature films received some 1m EUR in grants in the sixth round of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, along with over 600,000 EUR for documentary film production.
PRODUCTION: Kolski Completing Production on Heart
WARSAW: Jan Jakub Kolski will complete filming on Serce, serduszko i wyprawa na koniec świata (Heart, Heartling and the Journey To The End Of The World) at the end of…
IDF DocBloc: Sugar-Blog
Andrea Culkova takes a personal look at the addiction to sugar.
Poland Funds Digital Literacy Project
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP has received state funding to coordinate a new project aimed at making public media available to everyone.
Czech Film Fund chief Helena Frankova is candidate for Czech Minister of Culture post
PRAGUE: The director of the Czech State Fund for Cinema Helena Fraňková is one of the front-running candidates for the post of Minister of Culture according to reports in the…
EU Parliament adopts Creative Europe
WARSAW: The European Parliament has adopted the new Creative Europe. The members of parliament voted 650 in favour, 32 against and there were 10 abstentions to approve the new programme…
Romanian Film Promotion Launches VOD Platform
BUCHAREST: Three film lessons on Lucian Pintilie and Tudor Giurgiu’s Love Sick are among the highlights of the newly released free VOD from Romanian Film Promotion.
Distribution and Expansion Fuel Cinema City Q3 Profits
WARSAW: Central European multiplex operator Cinema City recorded an 8.3% increase in revenues at 212.3m EUR for the first three quarters of 2013 compared with 2012, despite a 3% drop…
FESTIVALS: Miele Wins LIFFe Kingfisher Award
LJUBLJANA: Miele by Valeria Golino collected the main prize of the 24th Ljubljana Film Festival.
FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013: Tangerines
Tangerines, an Estonian/Georgian coproduction directed by Zaza Urushadze, pitched at Connecting Cottbus 2010, began shooting at the end of 2012 and opened in cinemas in Georgia and Estonia in October…
FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013 The Arbiter
TALLINN: Kadri Kõusaar’s second film The Arbiter, which had its international premiere in the East of the West competition at the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a morally challenging and difficult…
GRANTS: Holland, Rosa, Borcuch Receive Polish Film Grants
WARSAW: The Polish Film Institute distributed nearly 70 grants for production, development and scholarships in the final round of 2013.
PRODUCTION: The Last Incubus in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Distributor InterComFilm Romania has already started a promotional campaign marketing Ovidiu Georgescu's The Last Incubus as the first Romanian magic realism film, well in advance of its 14 February…
Eurimages Awards Ada Solomon
Romanian producer Ada Solomon will receive the Co-production Award - Prix EURIMAGES at the 7 December 2013 European Film Awards Ceremony in Berlin.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013 Siska de Luxe
COTTBUS: Slovenian director Jan Cvitkovic returns to form with a bittersweet slacker comedy, Siska de Luxe produced by Alex Pavlin of Perfo.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Details of a Dream
COTTBUS: Perisan Film of Turkey is producing Detail of a Dream written and directed by Orhan Eskikoy.
Malta Plans Film Coproduction Funding
Malta Home Affairs Minister Manuel Mallia told the country’s parliament that government plans to introduce 1m EUR in funding for coproductions.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Blood Money
COTTBUS: A Kurdish construction worker in Istanbul fakes an accident resulting in his death in order to help his family obtain “blood money” from the company to secure a home…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: The Load
COTTBUS: A Serbian film project, The Load, a gripping story of a truck driver who learns that the cargo he’s been transporting from Kosova to Belgrade contains the bodies of…
FNE/IDF DocBloc: Olga 80 in Production
Miroslav Janek is in production with a documentary by the first wife of the late Czech President Vaclav Havel, Olga 80.
