June 2012 Grants for Hungarian Films
BUDAPEST: Hungarian Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu) has designated production grants for two feature films and one documentary, and preproduction support for one feature film. Production funds will go to Heavenly Shift…
Czech Film Fund Gets Emergency Cash Infusion
PRAGUE: The Czech Republic Ministry of Finance has confirmed it will give 50 milion CZK (2 million euro) to the State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinema, which…
Czech Goat Story Set for Autumn Distribution
{mosimage}PRAGUE: Czech director/producer Jan Tomanek is in production with the animated feature Goat Story with Cheese (www.kozipribeh.cz/kozipribeh2).
FNE at Art Film Fest: CEE Filmmakers Triumph at Art Film Fest
{mosimage}Twilight Portrait by director Angelina Nikonova won the Blue Angel for Best Film at Art Film Fest (www.artfilm.sk), held from 16 to 23 June 2012 in the Slovak spa and…
PRODUCTION: Szabolcs Hajdu Preps Mirage
{mosimage}BUDAPEST: Acclaimed Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu (White Palms, Bibliothèque Pascal) is in preparation with a Hungarian/ Slovak/British coproduction, Mirage, a drama exploring the Hungarian Puszta and the way the Hungarians…
Czechs Launch Film Corner and Pitching at Karlovy Vary
{mosimage}PRAGUE: The Czech Film Center (CFC, www.filmcenter.cz) marks its 10th anniversary with an expanded presence at the Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com) targeting industry professionals.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Marcel Łoziński
{mosimage}The Institute of Documentary film interviews Polish documentary director Marcel Łoziński
New Russian studio Glavkino ready to invest in international coproductions
{mosimage}MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.glavkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex is open for business and ready to invest in international coproductions as well as offering deals on…
FNE at MIFF 2012: CEE films dominate Moscow Film Festival programme lineup.
{mosimage}MOSCOW: Films from Central and Eastern Europe will dominate the Competition of the 34th Moscow International Film Festival over the next eight days with six of the 17 films in…
PRODUCTION: Debut Tak Fajn in Postproduction
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Paul Janik makes his directing debut with the comedy Tak Fajn after appearing in films and on TV since the age of 4, and spending 16 years in NYC,…
Six Polish Films Compete at Karlovy Vary
{mosimage}WARSAW: Poland will send nine films to the Karlovy Vary IFF (29 June-7 July 2012, www.kviff.com), including six films competing in three competition sections. Four of the films are coproductions…
Bulgarian Film Academy Awards TV Series
{mosimage}SOFIA: For the first time the national Film Academy awards, co-organised by the Union of the Bulgarian Film Makers, Bulgarian National Television (bnt.bg), the Bulgarian National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) and…
PRODUCTION: Romanian Adrian Sitaru to Shoot his First Film in English
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: A cinematic adaptation of Fiona Campbell's bestseller Death of a Salaryman is in early development at the London based company Vernon Films with two time BAFTA winning director Adrian…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Slovaks Unveil Films in Progress
{mosimage}TRENCIANSKE TEPLICE, SLOVAKIA: Six films in various stages of development and production have been selected to participate in the Slovak Film Institute's (www.aic.sk) Forum 2012, a presentation of upcoming films…
PRODUCTION: New Matej Minac project A History of a Film Never Shot in Development
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Slovak filmmaker Matej Mináč (All My Loved Ones, Nicky's Family) is developing a docu comedy based on real life events and retracing the history of his unfulfilled dream to…
FESTIVALS: Karlovy Vary Adds CEE Event and Award
{mosimage}PRAGUE: The 47th Karlovy Vary IFF (29 June - 7 July 2012, www.kviff.com) will offer a new for the best CEE film in the Works in Progress presentation and will…
FESTIVALS: Etiuda&Anima Call for Entries
{mosimage}KRAKOW: The 19th IFF Etiuda&Anima (23-29 November 2012, www.etiudaandanima.com) is accepting films for the its competitions of short films and animated films until 17 September.
ANIMATION PRODUCTION: Czechs Comics Classics Quarterfoil in Production
{mosimage}PRAGUE: Czech filmmaker Michal Žabka is shooting his animation feature debut, Quarterfoil, based on a popular Czech comic book series that dates back to the 1970's. Quarterfoil (Čtyřlístek), with a…
OBITUARY: Jaroslava Adamova
{mosimage}PRAGUE: The Czech press reported that Czech actress Jaroslava Adamova has died at age 87.
PRODUCTION: Iho in Production
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Eliza Zdru is shooting Iho, a 52 minute documentary on four elderly Aromanians from Cogealac, a small village near Constanţa, Romania, who sing polyphonic archaic music. ("Iho" means "melody"…
