FNE TV: Berlinale Delegate for Eastern Europe and CEE film Expert: Nikolai Nikitin

FNE spoke to Nikolai Nikitin about how more films from CEE can cross borders and find a larger audience
18-03-2014

Stopklatka SA signs with Emitel

WARSAW: Stopklatka, the broadcaster of the newly launched Stopklatka TV, has announced plans to invest over 61 m PLN in ground digital broadcasting services.
18-03-2014

FNE at Sofia IFF: Georgian Blind Dates Grabs Three Awards in Sofia

SOFIA: Levan Koguashvili’s Blind Dates produced by Millimetr Film won the Sofia IFF Grand Prix in the International competition for first and second films.
17-03-2014

FNE TV: Director Georgian National Film Centre: Nana Janelidze

FNE spoke to Nana Janelidze about her first year as director of the Georgian National Film Centre and what she sees as the priority directions for the development of the…
17-03-2014

FNE at Sofia Meetings 2014: New Audiences and New Opportunities

SOFIA: Sofia Meetings hosted a number of events that emphasized the development of new audiences for European cinema during the three day event (13-16 March 2014).
17-03-2014

Steven Seagal Returns to Romania

BUCHAREST: Filming on The Mercenary: Absolution, directed by Keoni Waxman and shooting entirely in Romania, begins today, 17 March 2014, and continues through 7 April.
17-03-2014

GNFC Announces Documentary Grants Competition

TBILISI: A total of 31 projects for short and long documentaries have been submitted to the grants contest launched by the Georgian National Film Centre. Approximately 82,800 EUR/200,000 GEL are…
17-03-2014

Stopklatka TV Launched in Poland

WARSAW: The first Polish free commercial channel Stopklatka TV was launched on 15 March 2014.
17-03-2014

“First Lady of Czech Cinema,” Vera Chytilova, dies aged 85 in Prague.

PRAGUE: Vera Chytilova, one of the leading filmmakers of the Czech New Wave cinema died yesterday (12 March 2014) in Prague at the age of 85. Among Czech filmmakers she…
14-03-2014

Speak Out Wins Georgian UN Competition

TBILISI: Speak Out, a documentary produced by NGO Art Film Studio, received the prize of 39,365 EUR/95,000 GEL from the UN Women organisation and the Georgian National Film Centre.
14-03-2014

FESTIVALS: Krakow FF Launches Movie Trailer Competition

The 54 Krakow Film Festival has opened online voting through 10 April 2014 for its new movie trailer competition.
14-03-2014

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: East Doc Launches 20 Doc Projects

The Institute of Documentary Film’s most important activity and the largest documentary industry event in the region, the East Doc Platform, drew over 300 film professionals to Prague to network,…
14-03-2014

FNE TV: Cypriot director Yannis Economides

FNE spoke to Cypriot director Yannis Economides about being a filmmaker in one of the EU’s smallest countries and his new film Stratos that was in competition in Berlinale 2014
13-03-2014

TVP ABC Kids Channel Debuts Strong

WARSAW: TVP ABC, a children's channel from Polish public broadcaster TVP has become the leading children station in its first month, outperforming competing paid channels.
13-03-2014

PRODUCTION: Damian Climbing The Magic Mountain

BUCHAREST: Using the same mix of animation techniques from Crulic - The Path to Beyond, Anca Damian heads with the second part of her trilogy on heroism into the life…
13-03-2014

Anomalia Accepting Applications

PRAGUE: Five training sessions are scheduled for the 2014 edition of the 3D animation workshop Anomalia taking place 14 July through 19 September 2014.
13-03-2014

FNE at SIFF 2014: Twelve Projects Participate in Sofia Meetings

SOFIA: Eight fiction and four documentary works-in-progress will be presented at the Sofia Meetings, running 13-16 March 2014.
13-03-2014

FNE TV: Malta Film Commissioner Engelbert Grech

FNE TV spoke to Malta Film Commissioner Engelbert Grech about how being a small country can be an advantage for film production and new developments in Malta’s tax incentives and…
12-03-2014

Polish-Danish Word Heads to Scandinavia

WARSAW: Sales company LevelK has picked up Anna Kazejak's new drama The Word with distribution planned for Poland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
12-03-2014

PRODUCTION: 42Km Film Develops Dogs

BUCHAREST: The production company founded by Corneliu Porumboiu and Marcela Ursu is developing the first feature written and directed by Bogdan Mirică, a drama/thriller set in rural Romania with shooting…
12-03-2014