New Europe Film sold Polish and Latvian productions to Asia
WARSAW: Latvia's Oscar candidate Mother I Love You will be distributed in India while Poland's celebrated Papusza was sold to Japan.
Georgia Country Report 2013
PRODUCTIONA total of 30 films were produced in Georgia in 2012 and 2013.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Beer War
Producer Pavel Bercik dips into the topic of Czech Beer in an upcoming documentary.
WIDE Launches Online Cinema Festival
Wide and Eye on Films will launch the first CEE online film festival in Croatia beginning on 22 December 2013. The festival was initiated by Wide’s Loic Magneron.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Malta
Foreign film services, a driving force behind Malta’s film industry since its earliest days, have seen a revival in recent years.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country profile: Latvia
The Latvian film industry has begun a process of revival after hitting a low point in 2008 when Latvian economy was one of the hardest hit in the 2008 financial…
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Slovakia
The launch of Slovakia’s Audiovisual Fund four years ago has reaped benefits for Slovak film production abroad and at home.
PRODUCTION: Josephine de la Baume Stars in Ursus
SOFIA: France’s Joséphine de La Baume will star in the Ukrainian-Georgian-German-Bulgarian 2.6m EUR coproduction Ursus - The Caucasian Bear, co-written eight years ago by esteemed Georgian scriptwriter Zaza Buadze and…
Prague Short Film Marathon
PRAGUE: The Czech Film Center in cooperation with the Prague Short Film Festival, the iShorts association and AG-Kurzfilm of Germany is organising a marathon of short films on 21 December…
SPI International to launch a new channel focused on independent cinema
WARSAW: The worldwide FilmBox Arthouse TV channel is set to launch in January 2014 starting with Central and Eastern Europe and USA.
Lithuania and Estonia Join EFP
The Lithuanian Film Centre and the Estonian Film Institute will become individual members of European Film Promotion.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country profile: Estonia
Estonia established an Estonian Film Industry Cluster in late 2012 with the support of over 20 leading production companies and organisations, followed by the launch of the Estonian Film Commission…
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Romania
Romania continued to garner international acclaim for domestic production despite a gap in funding, which is likely to affect the quantity of Romanian films coming onto the market in the…
FilmBox Arthouse in search of excellent new features
WARSAW: An award of 50 000 USD and screenings at the newly created FilmBox Arthouse TV Channel await filmmakers who enter the annual FilmBox Movie Award Competition.
Second Hungarian Grant for Fliegauf Film
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Film Fund gave a grant of 7.5m HUF (EUR 25,000) for preproduction works on Bence Fliegauf's new film, Hímpor.
Slovak Documentaries Screening Free Online
The Slovak Film Institute is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a special collection of Slovak archive documentaries available for the first time online, at DAFilms.cz.
CNC Resets Grants Deadline
BUCHAREST: Following a protest by filmmakers, the Council of Administration of the National Centre of Cinema set the deadline for grant contest applications to 23 December 2013.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Hungary
The launch of the new Hungarian National Film Fund saw the first results of its funding in 2013, ending a long drought in Hungarian film production. Foreign film production continued…
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Slovenia
Slovenia’s film production has remained fairly stable, despite the 2012 recession and government budget cuts as well astax increases in 2013 as the government scrambled to prop up its mostly…
Vilnius Film Cluster to launch new world class production centre
VILNIUS: The Vilnius Film Cluster will launch a new 1000 sq m sound stage and production centre in March 2014. The 4.5m LTL project aims to cash in on Lithuania’s…
