TBILISI: Marisa Romanov, an American series produced by Noirtainment Film and Television Production Company, is set to be shot in Georgia and already applied for the tax incentive scheme.
Doc Tank, the development lab for transmedia and socially engaged documentary projects will take place in Prague within East Doc Platform during One World Film Festival on 9-11 March 2016.
BUCHAREST: The deadline for the 3 Maia Workshop package has been extended to 4 March 2016. The Maia workshops are targeted at emerging European fiction, documentary and cross-media producers as well as graduates, production managers and other industry professionals wishing to improve their production skills.
PRAGUE: Twelve titles have been selected for the Main Competition of the One World Film Festival, which kicks off on 7 March 2016 in Prague and will also take place in other 32 cities of the Czech Republic.
The 18th annual One World Festival will focus on the two very hot topics in Europe. Through documentary films and debates it will present the very complex problem of migration – from fleeing war zones, to waiting for asylum, to integration. The festival will show current events in Ukraine from both sides of the conflict, through the eyes of soldiers, ordinary people and survivors.
LONDON: London-based Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), which celebrates its 15th anniversary, has a bunch of new projects with CEE countries including Georgia, Poland and Croatia as it expands its 2015/2016 slate to 12 pictures.
BUCHAREST: Ruxandra Zenide’s second feature film, The Miracle of Tekir, will be released in Romania on 4 March 2016 and in Switzerland on 6 April 2016.
VILNIUS: Ten films will compete in the international competition New Europe – New Names of the 21th Vilnius International Film Festival which kicks off on 31 March 2016.
WARSAW: Producers Ole Wendorff-Østergaard from Sputnik Film and Anna Wydra from Otter Films will coproduce the adaption of the war hero Jan Karski's book Story of a Secret State as Sputnik Film acquired the rights from Jan Karski International Institute and Robert Laffont publishing house.
WARSAW: The Polish romantic comedy Planeta Singli by Slovenian director Mitja Okorn rode to the top of the charts following its 5 February 2016 release.
