PRODUCTION: Prosenc Develops Follow up to KVIFF Debut

KARLOVY VARY: Slovenian director Sonja Prosenc, in Karlovy Vary to premiere her first film The Tree in the East of the West competition, spoke with FNE about her next project with the working title History of Love.

11-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Award Winner Lehotsky Developing Erik

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak director Juraj Lehotsky, whose 2013 film Miracle received the Special Mention when it premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF last year, was back at the festival this year to pitch his new project Erik about an eight-year-old boy suffering through his parents’ divorce.

10-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Journey to Rome Moves to Postproduction

KARLOVY VARY: Polish director Tomasz Mielnik has completed shooting on his debut film Journey to Rome, which was presented at the Karlovy Vary IFF Works in Progress.

10-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Ostrochovsky Fiction Debut Goat

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak documentary director Ivan Ostrochovsky will make his feature fiction debut with a Slovak/Czech road-movie drama lightened by quirky touches, Goat.

09-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Fornay Preps Absurdist Drama

KARLOVY VARY: Award-winning Slovak director Mira Fornay, who is serving on the main jury at the Karlovy Vary IFF, is in preproduction with Cook, F**k, Kill (Frogs with No Tongues) for a summer 2015 shoot.

09-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Alvernia Studios Preps Dark Comedy DISCOPOLO

WARSAW: Alvernia Studios will produce DISCOPOLO, a dark comedy about a social phenonenon of disco polo music starring Joanna Kulig and Dawid Ogrodnik.

09-07-2014

Czech Production Increased in 2013

KARLOVY VARY: Film production in the Czech Republic rose 23% in 2013, to more than 5 billion CZK with most of the increase due to foreign film production which rose 82% to 2.84 billion CZK.

07-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Balej Animated Fish Shop Gets Sneak Peak at KVIFF

KARLOVY VARY: Animated director Jan Balej gave industry pros the first look at the upcoming animated puppet film Little from the Fish Shop which has completed the production phase after 410 days of shooting.

07-07-2014

PRODUCTION: Minac Preps Hybrid Fellini Comedy

KARLOVY VARY: Slovak director Matej Mináč in in preproduction with Never Give Up, a hybrid fiction/documentary comedy about a film that was never made.

07-07-2014

PRODUCTION: 4 Passports Shooting Two Versions

ZAGREB: Serbian director Mihajlo Jevtić is shooting 4 pasoša/4 Passports a partly animated first-person documentary set against the backdrop of the former Yougoslavia of the last 30 years. The film is a German/Serbian/Croatian coproduction.

04-07-2014

FNE Coproduction Meeting at KVIFF 2014: Case Study: I, Olga Hepnarova

PRAGUE: The Czech/Polish/Slovak coproduction I, Olga Hepnarova will move into postproduction after two final days of shooting in the Slovak Tatra Mountains in August 2014, with plans to have the film completed by the end of 2014 and a release in fall 2015.

02-07-2014

PRODUCTION: The Yoghurt Syndrome in Development

ZAGREB: The love story/dramedy that Zvonimir Munivrana is developing through Corvus Film will be directed by Goran Rukavina with shooting planned for the first half of 2016.

02-07-2014

PRODUCTION: The Network in Postproduction

BUCHAREST: Claudiu Mitcu (Two of Us/Noi doi) is in postproduction with the documentary The Network/Reţeaua which he is producing with Ada Solomon and Călin Peter Netzer through his company Parada Film, the same company that produced Child's Pose/Pozitia copilului.

01-07-2014

PRODUCTION: WIDE Picks up What Silent Gerda Knows in Development

RIGA: Latvian born Russian writer/director Yevgeni Pashkevich's feature film What Silent Gerda Knows (Ko zina klusā Gerda) has entered development stage with distribution rights already acquired by Paris-based WIDE.

30-06-2014

PRODUCTION: Slovenian Horror Film Idyll Goes into Production

LJUBLJANA: Idyll, a Slovenian horror feature film, began shooting already started on 21 June 2014.

30-06-2014

PRODUCTION: Do You Love Me in production

VILNIUS: Lithuanian young generation director Lina Lužytė is working on her debut feature film Do You Love Me? (Ar tu mane myli?).

27-06-2014