New Riga Film Fund drive boom in foreign productions shooting in Latvia
TALLINN: The Riga Film Fund has fueled a boom in foreign productions in Latvia with nine foreign productions shooting in this Baltic state in 2011. Surprisingly producers from Asia including…
Left Behind Wins Tbilisi’s Doc Pitch
{mosimage}TBiLISI: The project Left Behind by Anna Tsimintia and Misha Svanidze was awarded with 2500 GEL in development funding at PITCH.DOC, hosted in connection with the 12th Tbilisi IFF (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge).…
Bulgaria’s National Film Center Selects Films for Grants
{mosimage}SOFIA: Two feature films, two script development projects, nine documentaries and four animated films have been selected to receive grants from Bulgaria's National Film Center (NFC, www.nfc.bg). The grants session…
Lithuanian Russian German coproduction Last November to Shoot in 2012
{mosimage}TALLINN: Last November is the working title for a new 3.5-4m EUR Lithuanian, Russian, German coproduction currently in development and due to start shooting in autumn 2012. The project which…
Croatia Looks to Tax Rebate in 2011
ZAGREB: Croatia joins the growing club of countries from central and eastern Europe offering a tax rebate for audiovisual productions shooting locally on 1 January 2012. FNE courtesy of the…
Crulic – The Path to Beyond Sells in Foreign Territories
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: The Romanian-Polish animated documentary Crulic - The Path to Beyond directed by Anca Damian was sold by Wide House/Wide Management (www.widemanagement.com, under construction) has been sold to France, Czech…
FESTIVALS: Turkish Films at Festival on Wheels
{mosimage}The 17th edition of Turkey's Festival on Wheels (www.festivalonwheels.org) concluded the second segment of its traveling film screening on 12 December 2011 and now moves on to Izmir for the…
FESTIVALS: December 15 Deadline for NexT IFF
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: The deadline for submitting films to the 6th edition of the NexT IFF (www.nextfilmfestival.ro), which takes place in Bucharest 28 March to 1 April 2012, is 15 December 2011.
Turkey Sets TV Sales Record
The sale of Turkish TV shows to foreign buyers is expecte to break the $60 million mark in 2011. Bulgaria and Greece are the two countries where Turkish TV programmes…
PRODUCTION: Hajdu in Production with The Gambler
BUDAPEST: Hungarian director and writer Szabolcs Hajdu in in mid-production with The Gambler, the follow-up to his 2010 film Bibliotheque Pascal, Hungary's candidate for the foreign language Oscar in 2011.
PRODUCTION: Faith, Love and Whiskey in Postproduction
SOFIA: Bulgarian-born director/writer Kristina Nikolova is in postproduction with her first full-length feature film, Faith, Love and Whiskey with an completion date of January 2012.
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
