PULA: The Istria Film Commission was launched during the Pula Film Festival as a unit within the Istrian Cultural Agency. It will perform several services free of charge for productions shooting in the region of Istria.

BUCHAREST: Acclaimed Romanian writer/director Nae Caranfil will start shooting 6.9 on the Richter Scale / 6,9 pe scara Richter on 31 August 2015. The film is a Romanian/Bulgarian/Hungarian coproduction with Cristian Mungiu producing through Mobra Films and Jelio Jelev producing through Bulgaria's Jelfilm and Hungary's Cinemafilm, is a contemporary comedy dealing with people’s anxiety about earthquakes.

TBILISI: Nino Gogua is currently in production with The Things, a documentary about the relationship between the Georgian refugees of the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008 and the things they took with them when leaving their homes.

BUCHAREST: Radu Muntean is working on a script for a feature film about parenting. The script should be completed by the end of 2015.

BUCHAREST: Mădălina Popescu has been named the new Head of Operations at HBO Romania. She will also continue her position as financial manager at HBO Romania and HBO Bulgaria

TBILISI: Salomé Jashi is in postproduction with The Station, a 90-minute documentary about the sole journalist of Jikha TV, a two-man broadcasting station in a small Georgian town.

CLUJ-NAPOCA: Ion Gnatiuc and Petre Matei are currently in postproduction with 85 Grams/85 grame, a 90-minute documentary about a Romanian historian and activist who is fighting for the rights of the Holocaust Roma survivors.

This month we speak with Ewa Jaskólska, the head of Cinema Café Falenica Station/Kinokawiarnia Stacja Falenica which celebrates its 5th anniversary in 2015 and is new to the Europa Cinemas network.

This month we speak with Ewa Jaskólska, the head of Cinema Café Falenica Station/Kinokawiarnia Stacja Falenica which celebrates its 5th anniversary in 2015 and is new to the Europa Cinemas network.

BUCHAREST: The Sight of Music/ Lo sguardo della musica by Giuseppe Tornatore, a docu-fiction produced by Bobby Păunescu through Mandragora Group in coproduction with Tornatore’s Piano B Produzioni is currently shooting with the premiere set for 2016.