HBO Central Europe to produce second season of top rating show În derivă / In Treatment in Romania
Bucharest, November 22nd, 2011 -
HBO Central Europe will start production of the second season of În derivă / In Treatment early next year.

The half-hour drama series, which airs five nights a week, follows the continuing story of psychotherapist Andrei Penauru and the weekly sessions with four patients, ending every Friday with the visit to his own therapist.
Season 2 of În derivă / In Treatment comprises 35 episodes and continues the theme of how a successful therapist both benefits from and is handicapped by his own life experience when he confronts the problems of his patients and his own turbulent life.
The first season of the series, shot entirely in Romanian, premiered on December 6th, 2010 on HBO Romania to critical acclaim from press and audiences.
The highly successful In Treatment format, created by Israeli writer Hagai Levi, has created loyal audiences in Israel, the US and Romania, and is now receiving enthusiastic press reviews for the HBO productions of the format made in Poland and the Czech Republic.
In Season Two, Marcel Iures continues his highly acclamed rôle as psychotherapist Andrei Poenaru, on the surface a serious and reserved professional, hiding a deeply emotional, vulnerable human being. How he strives to continue to help his patients and take care of his own life unfolds in the new season of In Deriva
After falling in love with a vulnerable female patient, everything that he holds dear falls apart and his life is thrown into complete havoc: his world descends into disarray, affecting his self-esteem, family and friends, professional reputation - and his patients.

Contacts
HBO Romania - Irina Catachin
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HBO Central Europe Gerry Buckland
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ABOUT HBO CENTRAL EUROPE

Home Box Office, America's leading premium television network, provides basic and premium pay television entertainment channels for cable TV, Direct-to-Home and MMDS platforms. HBO Central Europe - owned by Home Box Office Inc. - currently provides basic and premium channels to 14 countries in the region, including: Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia.

HBO CE offers five high quality movie channels (HBO, HBO2, HBO Comedy, Cinemax and Cinemax2) and a digital package (HBO HD, HBO2 HD, HBO Comedy HD, Cinemax HD, Cinemax2 HD, broadcasting HBO and Cinemax programming in high definition, HBO ON DEMAND, HBO's subscription video on demand service and HBO GO, HBO's broadband SVOD service) with unique programming and broad audience appeal.
HBO and Cinemax along with their multiplexes and value-added services bring the biggest blockbusters, award winning original productions, series, exclusive events, evergreen movies, film festival hits, international and European movies and the biggest stars into viewers' homes.

HBO Central Europe is headquartered in Budapest, Hungary.

THE FESTIVAL ON WHEELS IS GEARING UP TO MEET CINEMA FANS ONCE MORE WITH SEVERAL NEW SECTIONS COMPLEMENTING THE TRADITIONAL CORE OF THE PROGRAMME. THIS YEAR'S FESTIVAL ON WHEELS LINE-UP FEATURES AWARD-WINNING FILMS FROM WORLD CINEMA, THE LATEST WORK TO COME OUT OF TURKISH CINEMA, A DARDENNE BROTHERS RETROSPECTIVE, ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ'S 'AMERICAN FILMS I ENVY,' PRODUCTIONS TAKING UP THE ARAB SPRING, AND SHORT FILMS FROM FINLAND, INCLUDING THE WORK OF FINNISH CINEMA MASTER, AKI KAURISMÄKI.

As the Festival on Wheels prepares to set out for the 17th year, a packed programme of award-winning films from World and Turkish cinema, classics and shorts, workshops and panel discussions awaits film fans, along with the latest publication of the Bookstand on Wheels. Organized by the Ankara Cinema Association, in association with the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism, the Festival on Wheels will begin its travels, as every year, in Ankara. Following screenings in the capital on 2-8 December, the Festival will be visiting Sinop on 9-12 December, and Izmir on 14-18 December.

WORLD CINEMA
The World Cinema section presents a selection of award-winning films fresh from the world's leading festivals. The section line-up includes Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli), The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius), Atmen (Karl Markovics), Courage (Greg Zglinski), The Day He Arrives (Hong Sangsoo), Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki), Melancholia (Lars von Trier), Nana (Valérie Massadian), The Prize (Paula Markovitch) and Volcano (Runar Runarsson).

TURKEY 2011
Once again this year, Festival on Wheels audiences will be presented with a pick of the latest productions to emerge from Turkish cinema. In addition to film screenings, cinephiles will have the chance to speak with cast and crew at gala performances and during Q&A sessions. The section line-up includes: Onur Ünlü's The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family (Celal Tan ve Ailesinin Aşırı Acıklı Hikayesi), which won three awards, among them Best Film, at this year's Adana Golden Boll Festival; Future Lasts Forever (Gelecek Uzun Sürer), the second film by Özcan Alper, in which he reflects on the recent history of southeast Anatolia; Nuri Bilge Ceylan actor Muzaffer Özdemir's directorial debut, Home (Yurt); What Remains (Geriye Kalan), the film that won first-time director Çiğdem Vitrinel Best Director award at Antalya; Yüksel Aksu's second feature Ecotopia (Entelköy Efeköy'e Karşı); and the Murat Saraçoğlu directed In Flame! (Yangın Var).

DARDENNE BROTHERS: CONSCIENCE AND FATE
Belgian filmmaking duo, the Dardenne Brothers, fabled for their signature documentary-style realism in portraying the 'other' Europe and the struggles of the man on the street, will be guests of the Festival on Wheels this year with a retrospective of five of their films: Rosetta, The Son, The Promise, Lorna's Silence and The Kid with a Bike.

ZEKİ DEMİRKUBUZ: AMERICAN FILMS I ENVY
This section brings audiences four American films described by prominent Turkish director Zeki Demirkubuz as "films I envy." The compilation combines Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, one of the most powerful portrayals of violence on celluloid, with the John Huston directed title The Misfits, in which both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable made their last screen appearances, Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza, and the John Schlesinger film Midnight Cowboy.

SPRING IS REVOLUTIONARY
The Spring is Revolutionary section offers an on-the-ground perspective of the transition sparked in the Arab world in 2011 by the demand for democracy, as depicted on screen by local filmmakers. Alongside film screenings, the Festival on Wheels will be opening up the Arab Spring to debate in a panel discussion.

CLASS - CLOSE-UP
This year's addition to the now annual Bookstand on Wheels comes in the form of Class Relations: A Timeworn Representation? which explores various dimensions of the class concept in film, literature, culture and economy. Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's La Rabbia, a previously obscure documentary made up entirely of archive footage, will also be screened as a spin-off of the 'class' theme.

TUNCEL KURTİZ'S ÉMIGRÉS
Festival on Wheels audiences this year will have the opportunity to catch Hasan the Rose (Gül Hasan), the 1979 film directed in Sweden by Tuncel Kurtiz and starring himself in the lead role. In its time, this unconventional 'guest worker' film won three awards at the Antalya Film Festival, as well as the Best Director award of the Swedish Film Institute.

CHECK OUT THESE FREE SCREENINGS!
The now classic Festival on Wheels short film screenings fall this year into three categories: Short is Sweet, a selection of innovative films from around the world; Finland in Short, a sample of Finnish work from the past 30 years; and Cowboys of the North: Aki Kaurismäki, which covers the short films of Finland's most prominent director.

Films from Belgium and France make up the Children's Films section and promise to appeal as much to adults as to the young.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS and WORKSHOPS
As well as film screenings, the 17th Festival on Wheels continues to offer workshops on cinema. Workshops will be held in parallel to panel discussions on the Festival with themes of 'The Arab Spring' and 'Class and Cinema.' Additionally, the Script Workshop: Characters, Dialogue and Acting will focus on character portrayal, dialogue and the relationship between director and screenwriter. Distinguished academic and critic Mieke Bal will come together with audiences in a master class on the theme of What Culture Silences after the screening of his latest film, A Long History of Madness, co-directed with Michelle Williams Gamaker.

For the younger generation, and specifically 8-12 year-olds, Mieke Driessen and Jenny van den Broeke will be leading an Animation with Kids Workshop in Ankara sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy. Here, young participants will produce their first stop motion animation films. Again in Ankara, Ceylan Özçelik, presenter of the SkyTürk film programme 'The Most Thrilling Place', will give a workshop entitled Warning: Shooting in Progress! The Most Thrilling Place in Television, in which the finer details of making a film programme for television will be discussed.

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PRESS RELEASE

November 2011

15th EDITION OF THE BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL (PÖFF) ANNOUNCES IT WILL OPEN WITH ICELANDIC TRAGICOMEDY EITHER WAY AND CLOSE WITH THE TREE OF LIFE AS FULL PROGAMME IS ANNOUNCED AND TICKETS GO ON SALE

The Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), which runs from 18th to 30th November 2011, will begin its celebration of Icelandic cinema on its Opening Night by launching the festival with a screening of Either Way.

Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson the film centres on Alfred and Finnbog who work for the Icelandic public roads department with a job painting dividing lines and hammering kilometre posts into road shoulders. This odd couple spend their time debating with each other whilst being isolated from civilisation and their loved ones. Their relationship forms the basis of a warm and moving comedy drama that will provide a perfect curtain raiser to the biggest film festival in North East Europe.

Either Way will be one of many Icelandic films in the festival as the festival will present a focus on cinema from the country in recognition of the fact that Iceland was the first country to recognise Estonia’s independence in 1991. Films such as the concert film Inni: Sigur Rós (Dir: Vincent Morisset) and the lauded Volcano (Dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson) will sit alongside a retrospective of the work of Fridrik Thor Fridriksson who will also be on hand to collect the PÖFF Lifetime Achievement award.

The festival competitions – including the Official Competition Eurasia, Tridens Baltic Film Competition, Heave(i)en Estonian Film Award and Competition for North American Indies – will include many delights from established films such as The Artist (Dir. Michel Hazanavicius) and Elena (Dir. Andrei Zvyagintsev) to the world premiere of the Kazakh film Akkyz (Dir: Zhanabek Zhetiru). Other competition premieres will include the international premieres of Uzbek film Late Life (Dir. Ayub Shaxobiddinov) and Doppelgänger Paul (Dir: Kris Elgstrand, Dylan Akio Smith) and a European premiere for The Last Nights of Joe May (Dir. Joe Maggio)

The Panorama section will focus upon those films that have already delighted festival audiences, amongst them Buta (Dir. Dir: Ilgar Najaf) [which will recieve it's international premiere], Gypsy (Dir: Martin Šulík) and We Have a Pope (Dir: Nanni Moretti) whilst the Forum contains some esoteric works ripe for adventurous audiences to discover including UK feature Wild Bill (Dir. Dexter Fletcher) and the stunning Blue Bird (Dir: Gust Van den Berghe). There’ll also be a chance to see films from directors who have screened at PÖFF over the years with The Trip (Dir. Michael Winterbottom) and Faust (Dir: Aleksander Sokurov) sure to entrance the numerous visitors to the festival. The festival will close with a screening of the Palme D’or winning The Tree of Life (Dir. Terence Malick)

The Screen International Critics Choice encompasses those films that those at the renowned industry magazine have made waves over the past year including the mesmerising The Turin Horse (Dir: Béla Tarr) and the tough but brilliant Tyrannosaur (Dir. Paddy Cosindine). PÖFF’s Vitamin Boost will include the funny, strange and weird with Karlovy Vary Independent Camera Award winner Sunflower Hour (Dir. Aaron Houston) and China based sex comedy Red Light Revolution (Dir. Sam Voutas) guaranteed to chase the blues of the dark nights away.

Documentaries will also be represented with Docs@PÖFF and will include screenings of the beautiful Argentinean Lesson (Dir: Wojciech Staroń) and moving Mama Africa (Dir: Mika Kaurismäki) whilst there will be a special focus on Human Rights, with Diversity Enriches a programme which aims to show how similar we all are in spite of our differences. There’ll also be a chance to see some of the best haute couture with Monton Presents: Fashion on Film, a selection of short films in Sleepwalkers Presents and some extra special screenings to celebrate the 15th birthday of PÖFF

The director of the Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk said:

“As always we have an absolutely full programme and we urge everyone to check out the wealth of films we have on show. From the biggest names to those beginning to make names for themselves, the 15th anniversary of PÖFF is definitely one of our best programmes yet.”

The full programme and schedule for Black Nights and information on how to buy tickets is available www.poff.ee

PÖFF is part of the programme of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011.

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Notes for Editors

For further information contact the International Press Officer Laurence Boyce at laurence.boyce@poff .ee

The Black Nights Film Festival has a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/festivalpoff. The POFF English twitter feed is available at @POFFWolf whilst the Estonian feed is available at @POFFIHunt

For more information about Tallinn – 2011 European Capital of Culture go to http://www.tallinn2011.ee/eng

TALLINN 2011 PRESS RELEASE

16 November 2011

European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 cooperates with Black Nights Film Festival

The 15th Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) and Tallinn 2011 present during this year’s festival a new international animation training event and films by world’s top directors.

AnimaCampus Tallinn is a brand new networking platform and training event for up-and-coming young filmmakers working in the field of animation. The five-day creative summit takes place during the year of European Capital of Culture in parallel with the Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams, the sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Among others Tallinn welcomes this week a member of a known Japanese indie-anima group Nobuaki Doi, the creator of smartphone app Angry Birds, the head of animation department of the Finnish Rovio Entertainment Nick Dorra and representatives of film studios from Sweden, Denmark, UK and Germany. AnimaCampus will finish on Saturday 19th November. See more: http://2011.anima.ee/eng

Just as in earlier years Tallinn 2011 supports the international film market Black Market aimed at film industry professionals – makers, distributers, producers - and focusing on films from Central and Eastern European and Nordic countries, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Azerbaidzhan.

See more: http://market.poff.ee.

In addition Tallinn 2011 supports the screenings of a dozen films by nominees of this year’s European Film Academy awards, among them candidates for best film „The Artist“ (France), “Le Gamin au Vélo“ (Belgium/France/Italy), „Hævnen“ (Denmark), „Le Havre“ (Finland/France/Germany), „The King’s Speech“ (UK) and „Melancholia“ (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany). A year ago EFA awards gala took place in Tallinn to celebrate the European Capital of Culture title, this year the awards will be announced in the beginning of December in Berlin. See more: http://2011.poff.ee/eng/films/programmid.c/tallinn-2011-presents-efa-2011-nominees-at-poff

Also at PÖFF – there is a special programme of filmmakers who will be part of one of the most exciting closing events of the European Capital of Culture – the audio-visual installation ’60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero’. This special programme will present the new films of Naomi Kawase (Japan), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Jeon Kyu-hwan (South Korea), Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (Iceland), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Amir Naderi (Iran/USA), Michael Winterbottom (UK) and Rainer Sarnet (Estonia).

See more: http://2011.poff.ee/eng/films/programmid.c/60-seconds-of-solitude-in-year-zero

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Open call for the projects for Dragon Forum 2012! Shake the drawer of your documentary dreams and let them come true!

International Academy of Document Dragon Forum opens call for 2012 year edition.

The schedule of Dragon Forum 2012:

· script session in Warsaw, from 24th till 27th of January

· individual project development consultations in February and March

· production session in Berlin, in April

· pitching in Krakow, in the beginning of June, during Krakow Film Festival.

· co-production session in Leipzig, in October, during the International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films

The course is dedicated to the filmmakers, having developed idea of documentary film for the international audience, who want to access the international co-production market.

Application requires:

• short description of the film project

• initial trailer

• information about authors

• initial budget

• estimated financial plan

Detailed information, regulations, schedule and application form are available on www.dragonforum.pl

Workshops are held in small group, conducted by Polish and international experts. The workshops language is English. Finished projects will be presented to commissioning editors from major European and international TV stations and funds as well as producers, distributors and sales agents, who will come especially for Dragon Forum, held in Krakow in first days of June 2012. For certain selected projects participation in Co-production Meetings at Dok Leipzig is foreseen.

Dragon Forum is:

• the possibility of professional development of film project

• work under the guidance of prominent documentary film makers and international experts

• creative meeting in the international documentary team

• presentation of the project on the international market

• entry to the European documentary filmmakers network

• access to the international film market

Fill in the application form available on till 23:59, 18th December 2011.

See you soon in Dragon’s claws!

Press Release

The 15^th annual Tallinn Black Nights presents 5 Czech films to the Estonian public

Prague, 21 November 2011 - Five contemporary Czech films will be presented at the international film festival in Tallinn, Estonia. They will be represented in three non-competitive sections. The 15^th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is the largest film festival in the Baltics and is also the organiser of the Baltic Event coproduction market and the Black Market film market.

Estonian audiences can look forward to five coproduction films in the non-competitive FORUM, PANORAMA and 15 SELECTED TITLES sections. In the Panorama section films that predominantly won awards in the last year and which present a view of current trends and directions are shown. Audiences can look forward to the films Alois Nebel by director Tomáš Luňák, Martin Šulík's Gypsy and Identity Card from director Ondřej Trojan in this section.

Director Zuzana Liová's The House is among the 37 films presented in the Forum section and the 15 Selected Titles section presents films from directors that have been presented at least twice in the past at the festival in Tallinn. Director Christophe Honoré's coproduction film The Beloved fulfils this condition.

The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival offers three competition sections from the main programme through the section on documentary and feature films from Baltic states to the special Estonian competition section. In the Focus section this year the organisers focused on Icelandic cinematography and the fact that since 2008 the number of films screened has increased even in spite of the economic crisis.

The 15^th annual Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will be taking place from 16 to 30 November 2011 and will become a unique event for international feature films, animated work and student films and films for youth. A film and coproduction market will also take place for film industry professionals. You can find more information at: http://2011.poff.ee/

Contact:

Jana Černik, GSM: +420 724 32 99 49

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Warsaw Film Festival joined the Academy Award® film festival list. This means that the winner of the Grand Prix in the WFF's Short Films Competition will have the right to compete for the Oscar® for best short film. The organizers of the Warsaw Film Festival have received a memo to this effect signed by Jon Bloom, chair of the Academy's Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Executive Committee. "We have been consistently developing the Warsaw Film Festival for years", says Stefan Laudyn, director of the Warsaw Film Festival. "In this, we also want to be useful to the Polish and international film industry. We have been promoting debuting filmmakers for many years and the Shorts Competition, held since 2008, is the latest step in this direction. This year's workshop for Polish makers of short films, Shorts Warszawa, organized by the WFF and the CentEast Market, showed just how much filmmakers stand to gain from meeting experienced professionals. I think having a project make it to the Oscar list will further increase young Polish and international filmmakers' interest in the WFF". "This excellent news is sure to trigger even greater interest in the Warsaw Film Festival among shorts filmmakers all over the world, and will have a positive impact on the standard of our Shorts Competition", adds Bartek Pulcyn, curator of the Shorts Competition at the Warsaw Film Festival. "I trust it will also serve as a strong incentive for Polish film directors and producers to have the world premieres of their projects at the WFF".

More information:

Bartek Pulcyn, curator of the WFF Shorts Competition - tel. +48 605 289 793, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center (www.gnfc.ge) has signed a memorandum of cooperation on production with the Georgian Public Broadcaster (www.gbp.org).

9 -20 Nov 2011

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Ljubljana International Film Festival, among the visitors popularly known as LIFFe, is the largest and most important film festival in Slovenia. In the 21 years of its existence the Ljubljana International Film festival has opened windows onto the world cultural arena to the inhabitants of Slovenia.

LIFFe has enabled first-rate European and world film distribution, no longer entirely dependent on the market, but coexisting with it, shaping and enriching it in the long run.

Festival programme stems from the established festival texture which changes annually according to the current production, from which the finest and most compelling auctorial works are selected. The festival every year presents one or two of the worlds most visible national productions.

Last years edition of the festival presented 117 films on 281 screenings. We have hosted 46 international guests, 161 journalists and 50 000 visitors.

The most important of all festival aims is to present new authors and worlds new cinematographies but of course every year we also present well-known names of the world cinema.

Festival venue

Cankarjev dom, Linhart and Kosovel Hall, Foyer II, Klub CD, E1-E4, M1

Kinodvor, Kino Komuna, Slovenian Cinematheque

Kino Šiška

Kolosej Maribor, hall 5