PRODUCTION: Castel Film’s Paunescu Developing First Feature

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Vlad Paunescu, the owner and CEO of Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro), is developing Regina directului /Live Queen, his first feature film as a director. Live Queen won a production…
11-12-2011

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Pitch.Doc Presents Projects from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia

Taking place December 8 - 10, 2011, during the Tbilisi Film Festival, Pitch.Doc will for the third time provide funding opportunities for several creative documentary projects from the region of…
09-12-2011

Poland, Romania Win Shooting Stars Spots

Polish actor: Jakub Gierszał (Suicide Room) and Romanian actress Ana Ularu (Outbound) are among the ten young talents chosen as the 2012 Shooting Stars (www.shooting-stars.eu), sponsored by European Film Promotion.…
09-12-2011

PRODUCTION: The Last Black Sea Pirates in Postproduction

SOFIA: The Bulgarian production company Agitprop (www.agitprop.bg) is in the final postproduction on The Last Black Sea Pirates and Sir Norman Foster, a debut full-length documentary directed and written by…
08-12-2011

Czech Culture Minister Resigns

PRAGUE: Jiri Besser, the Czech Minister of Culture, resigned from office on 8 December 2012. The prime minister accepted his resignation.
08-12-2011

Essential Killing Named to France's Top Ten

{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's film Essential Killing has been named one of the ten best films of 2011 by the French "Cahiers du Cinema" critics.
08-12-2011

FESTIVALS: Cyprus Film Days Call for Entries

{mosimage}The 10th Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival (20-29 April 2012, www.cyprusfilmdays.com) is accepting entries through 3 February 2012 for its international competition programme, "Glocal Images."The festival is organized by…
08-12-2011

Public TV Funding under Discussion in Poland

WARSAW: The discussion on the funding of public broadcasting in Poland has resulted in two draft amendments to the law on TV and radio licenses.
07-12-2011

Latvian TV's Requests Cable Fee

RIGA: Commercial Latvian TV stations LNT and TV3 are asking cable TV operators to pay for there broadcasts of the commercials stations. Currently cable companies are able to broadcast the…
07-12-2011

PRODUCTION: Four Suns in Postproduction

PRAGUE: Czech director and screenwriter Bohdan Slama is in the final stages of postproduction with the drama Four Suns, which is expected to be completed in early 2012 for a…
07-12-2011

FESTIVALS: Watch Docs Screens 19 Competition Titles

WARSAW: Nineteen documentary films will compete for the main prize of the 11th edition of Watch Docs IFF (8-18 December 2011, watchdocs.pl), with a focus on the topic of human…
07-12-2011

New Horizons Acquires Seven Films

WARSAW: Poland's New Horizons Association (www.nowehoryzonty.pl), the organizer of the New Horizons IFF and distributor of art house films, announced that it has picked up seven new titles, including several…
07-12-2011

PRODUCTION: TV Series Galeria in Production for TVP

WARSAW: ATM Grupa has just begun production on Galeria, a TV series that will premiere on Polish public broadcaster TVP1 in January 2012.
06-12-2011

Tbilisi IFF Opens with Faust

(TBILISI) The 12th Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) opened on 6 December with a screening of Faust directed by Alexander Sokurov. The festival runs through 11 December.
06-12-2011

Finnish Films Surpass 1.1 Million Admissions

Domestic films have taken 17% of the market share in Finnish cinemas, according to data released by Finnish distributors. As of the end of November 2011, admissions to Finnish films…
06-12-2011

Conference Ponders Future of Arthouse Cinemas

The international conference on film exhibition in Europe winds to a close in Paris on 7 December with a panel discussion on how European arthouse cinemas are preparing for the…
06-12-2011

Romania 2011 Country Profile

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: The Romanian domestic film industry remained steady in 2011, while coproductions and foreign films were on the rise. The foreign interest in the Romanian films continues and national films…
06-12-2011

PRODUCTION: Cristian in Development in Romania

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Director, screenwriter and producer Tudor Giurgiu is developing his third feature and currently co-writing the third draft with Loredana Novak. The film will be produced by Libra Film (www.librafilm.net).
05-12-2011

Lithuania Picks Up My Man Can

Lithuanian commercial TV broadcaster LNK (lnk.lt) has acquired the competitive game show My Man Can from German sales company SevenOne International. The show will debut on LNK in January 2012.
05-12-2011

Gypsy Competes at Les Arcs

The multi-awarded Slovak film Gypsy directed by Martin Sulik will compete for the Crystal Arrow in the official competition of the Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs, 10-17 December 2012.
05-12-2011