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…
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…
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.
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.*
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…
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.
3D Content Financing Market Accepting Applications for December Edition
LIEGE: The 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM), an international co-production and financing market for projects for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) contents, is open for applications through 31 August 2014, for the market…
PRODUCTION: Milko Lazarov in Development with Nanook
SOFIA: Milko Lazarov, whose minimalist, almost dialogue-free low budget debut film Alienation became Bulgaria’s 2013 creative surprise, is developing Nanook produced by his company Red Carpet.
PRODUCTION: Cristina Iacob in Postproduction with A Gift for You
BUCHAREST: The young director Cristina Iacob, who directed the most successful Romanian film in 2014, the youth comedy #Selfie, is in postproduction with A Gift for You/Un dar pentru tine,…
First CEE Oscar Contenders Announced
Poland, Hungary and Romania are among the first countries to select the films that will represent them in the Oscar foreign film category.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Oma Export
Bosnia and Herzegovina teams up with Germany on a documentary about a German pensioner looking for a better life in Eastern Europe.
Polish Film Karbala to Shoot in Kurdistan
Polish and Kurdish sources announced that the feature film Karbala is being shot in the Kurdistan region as well as in Poland.
Malta Film Commission Takes on British Interns
Four British university student interns will each spend three months in Malta working with the Malta Film Commission.
PRODUCTION: The Man Who Knew 75 Languages in Production
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian/Polish/Norwgian docudrama The Man Who Knew 75 Languages from director Anne Magnussen and co-director Pawel Debski has gone into production.
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Robert Berberih - Croatia
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
Profits Rise at TVP
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP recorded a profit of 116 m PLN within the first six months of 2014, a stunning 107.4 m PLN more than for the same period…
TVP Sees More International Sales
WARSAW: Series and films produced by Poland’s public broadcaster TVP are being sold worldwide to territories including Estonia, Latvia, China and Korea.
Polish Oscar Candidate Ida Continues International Rollout
WARSAW: Pawel Pawlikowski’s recently announced Oscar contender Ida is set for premieres in Slovakia, Hungary, UK, Denmark and Sweden.
Croatian Box Office Declines
ZAGREB: Croatia saw a general decline in box office and domestic films brought in 85% less money in the first half of 2014 compared to the first half of 2013.
Bollywood productions boost Romanian film industry
BUCHAREST: Bollywood has discovered Romania. In what looks like a growing trend across central and eastern Europe Bollywood producers shooting in Romania are boosting the local location services industry. Bollywood…
