Film Spring Open Aims to Democratize Production

WARSAW: Film Spring Open (www.filmspringopen.eu/previs.html), a new system for creating "previsualizations" (or Previs) for feature proposals, is hoped to boost both the prospects of indie filmmakers and the number of…
07-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Vinnie Jones in Lithuania UK coproduction Flight Redirected

VILNIUS: Controversial director Emilis Velyvis is working on his new action-comedy-thriller Flight Redirected, the story of four friends turned first-time robbers, who get stranded in an Eastern Europe and have…
06-12-2012

Proposed changes for TV ad buying in Romania provoke controversy

BUCHAREST: According to critics, new changes to regulations of TV ad buying in Romania would also impact upon other areas of TV and cable market, including limiting editorial control for…
06-12-2012

New Russian studio Glavkino looks to busy 2013

MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex is already looking at a busy start to 2013 after finishing up its first year of operation…
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Hrebejk Film Day for Date Release Delivers Limited Results

PRAGUE: The simultaneous theatrical and VOD release of Jan Hrebejk's Waste, City and Death, an adaptation of a Rainer Werner Fassbinder script and stage play in Prague has brought in…
05-12-2012

First Czech Audiovisual Cluster Planned for Zlin

ZLIN: Tomas Bata University (www.utb.cz) officials have announced that this Moravian city, with its strong film industry tradition, will host the initiative CreaClust to connect art and business in the…
05-12-2012

Czech broadcaster NOVA TV to launch new channel

PRAGUE: Leading Czech commercial broadcaster TV Nova (tv.nova.cz) has asked the state for permission to launch a new channel, which it would call Smichov, described as offering content of a…
05-12-2012

Slovakia Announces Grants – the 4th round

Slovak Audiovisual Fund (www.avf.sk) announced the projects supported at the fourth round of 2012. The decision was approved by Martin Šmatlák, the Director of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund on 19…
05-12-2012

Georgian fest kicks off with Istvan Szabo’s The Door

TBILISI: The 13th edition of the Georgia's Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) kicked off last night (3 December 2012) with a screening of Istvan Szabo’s The Door, with the Oscar…
04-12-2012

Cinema City to Open Multiplex in Romania

BUCHAREST: The Cinema City group (www.cinemacity.ro) has announced its first multiplex in the city of Ploiesti, which raises to 14 the number opened by the exhibitor nationwide to date.
04-12-2012

War Witch Wins at Plus Camerimage

BYDGOSZCZ: Cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc won the Golden Frog for his work with director Kim Nguyen.
04-12-2012

FNE at EFA 2012: Haneke’s Amour sweeps EFA Awards

MALTA: Michael Haneke’s Amour swept the EFA awards winning best film, best director and best actor and actress awards leaving other contenders with little to divide between the remaining films.
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Bulgarian Parliament Takes Steps Toward Production Incentives

SOFIA: A parliamentary committee has changed an investment promotion law (www.parliament.bg) to allow Bulgaria to reward investors producing films with budgets over 400,000 leva (203,000 EUR) but the form of…
03-12-2012

PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production

WARSAW: French director Leila Ferault-Levy and Polish producer Marcin Latałło’s Camera Obscura are in production on Cenotaphe (Pomnik), an intimate documentary on crimes of genocide committed during World War II.
03-12-2012

Films from Central and Eastern Europe to Compete at Sundance

WARSAW: Feature from Poland and a Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian coproduction will screen at Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic section. A documentary from Georgia will also compete.
03-12-2012

FNE - IDF DocBloc: IDFA 2012 Celebrates 25 Years with Style

A look back at the 25th edition of IDFA and the CEE films presented this year at Europe's most significant documentary festival. Click HERE to read the full story on…
30-11-2012

FNE at European Film Academy Awards 2012: Malta

MALTA: Malta will host the 25th anniversary edition of the European Film Awards 1 December at the island’s Mediterranean Conference Centre, a spectacular venue built in 1574.
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France Honors Karlovy Vary's Eva Zaoralova

PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary festival's former artistic director was feted this week when the French Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Pierre Lévy, conferred upon Eva Zaoralova the second grade of…
30-11-2012

FNE EXCLUSIVE: Ilze Gailite Holmberg, Director of National Film Centre of Latvia

FNE asks Ilze Gailite Holmberg about developments in the Latvian film industry in 2012, the major achievements in the last five years and about the things still to be done.
30-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Fright Night 2 Shooting Entirely in Romania

BUCHAREST: Shooting for Eduardo Rodriguez's horror comedy Fright Night 2 started 25 November in Romania. 20th Century Fox (www.foxmovies.com) is producing with the Romania's Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro) providing services.
30-11-2012