TVP Signs Cooperation Agreement with Deutsche Welle
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle signed an agreement on 23 May 2014 on covering TV and film coproduction projects.
FNE at TIFF 2014: The Second Game
CLUJ-NAPOCA: The Second Game/Al doilea joc which had its world premiere in the Forum section of the Berlinale 2014 is set during a local Romanian football match in December 1988,…
FNE at TIFF 2014: Japanese Dog
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu's first feature Japanese Dog/Câinele japonez was one of the surprises of 2013.
HBO Europe Producing Drama Series in Romania
BUCHAREST: HBO Europe is beginning production on an eight-part, 45 minute TV series Umbre (Small Time Gangster) in Romania in early June.
PRODUCTION: Muntean Preps One Floor Below
BUCHAREST: Radu Muntean is set for an August- September 2014 shooting on One Floor Below, a Romanian-French-Swedish coproduction.
FNE at Cannes FF 2014: See how the FIPRESCI critics rated the programme
FNE has teamed up with FIPRESCI critics attending the Cannes Film Festivalto rate the films in the Main Competition, Certain Regard, Quinzaine, and Critics’ Week giving the films 1, 2,…
FNE at Cannes FF 2014: Cannes Awards Winners
CANNES: Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan swept to victory with his three hour plus Winter Sleep which won the Palme d’or at the 67 Cannes International Film Festival.
Czechs and Slovaks Pick up Cannes Films
PRAGUE: Distributors in the Czech and Slovak Republics have picked up a number of films that screened in competition at Cannes.
Poland to Increase TV License Fees
WARSAW: Poland is set to raise TV and radio license fees at the beginning of 2015.
FNE at Cannes IFF 2014: The Leviathan
CANNES: Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev arrives in competition in Cannes with The Leviathan which might just be his most ambitious and most successful film to date. Zvyagintsev burst onto the…
FNE at Cannes FF 2014: ScripTeast Award Winner
CANNES: One of the EU’s most successful script programmes ScripTeast has awarded its top prize for 2014 to ‘Merican Chick to by Czech scriptwriting team Evita Naušová and Viktor Tauš.
FNE Doc Bloc: Deadline Approaches for Baltic Sea Forum
Producers have two weeks left to apply for the Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries.
Rochstar Prime Time to Enter Polish market
WARSAW: Rochstar production company and Prime Time production house have joined forces and created a new unit aimed at Internet and advertising film production.
FNE at Cannes FF 2014: Party and Screen Alert Friday, Saturday, Sunday May 23-25
Party and Events Alert
FNE at Cannes IFF 2014: The Search
CANNES: It has been a year when a lot of Cannes critics suffered from sore asses as film after film weighed in at well over two hours and most of…
Estonia Adds Another Midsized Multiplex
TALLINN: The sixth multiplex has opened in Estonia in May, a four-screen midiplex with 4K digital Sony projectors. The new cinema is located in a multifunctional entertainment and wellbeing centre…
PRODUCTION Remo Completes Music Fest Doc
BRATISLAVA: Slovak documentary filmmaker Miro Remo is finishing work on Vrbovský veter, his second documentary after his award-winning short student documentary Arsy-Versy
FNE at Cannes FF 2014: Party and Screen Alert Thursday and Friday 22-23 May
Party and Events Alert
Premium Films Picks up Czech Way Out
PRAGUE: French sales agent Premium Films has added Czech director/writer Peter Vaclav’s The Way Out to its catalogue.
TVP Introduces VOD to Hybrid Platform
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP is making a selection of its library of productions available via video on demand in Poland and outside the country.
