PRODUCTION: Slovak Omnibus Twenty to Wrap in Fall

BRATISLAVA: Mátyás Prikler, director of the social drama Fine, Thanks, screened at the Rotterdam IFF this year, is prepping to produce the final segments of the episodic Twenty, a look at changes since the founding of an independent Slovakia in 1993. The project's original title, Slovakia 2.0, was dropped in the course of developing ten stories, each by a respected director, to chronicle the country's transitions.

14-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Šeregi Prepping Football Drama ZG80

ZAGREB: Igor Šeregi’s debut feature retraces the story of one of the greatest rivalries in soccer history, between the Bad Blue Boys, the supporters of  football club Dinamo, Zagreb, Croatia and Delije, the supporters of rival Red Star Belgrade, Serbia.

12-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Svěrák Music Fairy Tale Three Brothers Shooting

PRAGUE: Czech Oscar winner Jan Svěrák is in production on the music fairy tale Tři bratři  (Three Brothers), based on the script by his father, Zdeněk, who has incorporated music and texts from children's operettas he wrote with Jaroslav Uhlíř for the Czech National Theatre.

09-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Czech Village Tale Nowhere Shooting in Hills

Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape the story, according to the director.

09-08-2013

PRODUCTION: America, Here We Come Shooting

BUCHAREST: Răzvan Săvescu's debut feature is filming in Romania through 17 August and will then incorporate US locations in New York for 10 days.

09-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Dedictvi or Kurvaseneříká Wraps filming

PRAGUE: The two-month shoot in Prague and Brno of comedy Dedictví or Kurvaseneříka (The Heritage 2) has wrapped, following up on the film's first part

06-08-2013

PRODUCTION: World Is Mine to Wrap in August

BUCHAREST: Nicolae Constantin Tănase's debut feature is a 100% independent production between Tudor Giurgiu's Libra Film (librafilm.net) and Radu Stancu's deFilm (defilm.ro), with premiere set for summer 2014. The film "will be the biggest surprise in 2014," says Giurgiu.

05-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Czech 90's Story Wraps

The creative team behind Walking Too Fast (Pouta) - director Radim Špaček, screenwriter Ondřej Štindl, DoP Jaromír Kačer and producer Vratislav Šlajer - have wrapped two months of shooting for coming-of-age film Places (Mista), the second in a planned trilogy examining the changing face of the contemporary Czech Republic.

05-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Kostadin Bonev Shooting Docu on 'Romantic Execution'

Award-winning director Kostadin Bonev (Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch, 2002; Europolis-The Town of The Delta, 2009) is shooting his full length documentary Six Stories On A Romantic Execution about the life and death of Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov, one of Bulgaria’s most important poets.

02-08-2013

Kunsthal Paintings Robbery Inspires Giurgiu

BUCHAREST: Director and producer Tudor Giurgiu (Of Snails and Men) is developing together with photographer Cristian Movilă a feature based on the international art theft sensation last year that reached a tragic resolution in Romania.

01-08-2013

PRODUCTION: Crazy Teens Starts Shooting

BUCHAREST: Cristina Iacob's debut feature, a comedy road movie produced by MediaPro Pictures started filming on the Black Sea on 29 July and will continue in various seaside locations and in Bucharest until end of August.

31-07-2013

PRODUCTION: Georgi Djulgerov’s Buffer Zone in Post-production

Renowned for his original talent and unconventional style, Silver Bear-winning Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov (Advantage, 1977) is in postproduction on his 15th feature, Buffer Zone. The young company Front Film, run by the director’s ex-students, Nadejda Koseva and Svetla Tsotsorkova, was awarded with 472,430 EUR by the Bulgarian National Film Center (NFC) for the project.

30-07-2013

PRODUCTION: Docu The End of Light is Wrapping

ZAGREB: Aleš Suk and Željka  Sukova are in post-production on their "docu-fiction fairy tale," shot over three years and expected to complete in spring. Music by Midi Lidi, the Czech rockers from their previous films Marija´s Own and Winter/Miracle, is nearly set.

29-07-2013

PRODUCTION: Georgi Djulgerov’s Buffer Zone in Post-production

Renowned for his original talent and unconventional style, Silver Bear-winning Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov (Advantage, 1977) is in postproduction on his 15th feature, Buffer Zone. The young company Front Film , run by the director’s ex-students, Nadejda Koseva and Svetla Tsotsorkova, was awarded with 472,430 EUR by the Bulgarian National Film Center for the project.

26-07-2013

Romania's New Film Institute Could Back Production

BUCHAREST: The National Film Institute, founded via emergency ordinance on 26 June, could serve as a production company and  participate in the production grants system under the terms of a proposed a bill now headed for public debate in parliament.

25-07-2013

Production: T-Mobile New Horizons Polish Days Works in Progress

WROCLAW: Three provocative upcoming films are screening during the T-Mobile New Horizons fest Indie thriller Hardkor Disko, the funny and absurd Kebab and Horoscope and the daringly sensual Nude Area. Love In 15 Fragments.

24-07-2013