Polish listed Cinema City International taken over by UK Cineworld

WARSAW: Poland’s biggest cinema operator Cinema City International has been taken over by the UK’s Cineworld in a deal worth 600m EUR.
13-01-2014

Kino Polska celebrates 10 years on the market

WARSAW: Polish channel devoted to local productions with a special focus on classics started its broadcast on 20. December 2003.
20-12-2013

New Europe Film sold Polish and Latvian productions to Asia

WARSAW: Latvia's Oscar candidate Mother I Love You will be distributed in India while Poland's celebrated Papusza was sold to Japan.
20-12-2013

SPI International to launch a new channel focused on independent cinema

WARSAW: The worldwide FilmBox Arthouse TV channel is set to launch in January 2014 starting with Central and Eastern Europe and USA.
19-12-2013

FilmBox Arthouse in search of excellent new features

WARSAW: An award of 50 000 USD and screenings at the newly created FilmBox Arthouse TV Channel await filmmakers who enter the annual FilmBox Movie Award Competition.
18-12-2013

Warsaw AV Summit: Central and Eastern Europe issues a call for a stronger presence of their AV industries across Europe

WARSAW: Film industry leaders and AV policy makers from central and eastern Europe see a new and more active role for their AV industries in the upcoming Creative Europe programme…
13-12-2013

FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Poland

Polish film production has moved to the top ranks of the CEE film industry, thanks to the commitment to film funding through the Polish Film Institute and a strong system…
13-12-2013

Audiovisual summit “From MEDIA to CREATIVE EUROPE” broadcast online

Warsaw: The audiovisual summit “From MEDIA to CREATIVE EUROPE started yesterday 11 December at 9.55 CET in Warsaw and film professionals are able to watch the event live online. FNE…
12-12-2013

US Zodiak Picks up Polish Flapper and Friends

WARSAW: The Polish animated children’s series Flapper and Friends has been funded for a second season and has been picked up by Zodiak Rights Limited, a US company specializing in…
12-12-2013

EFP Names Polish, Romanian Shooting Stars

Polish actor Mateusz Kościukiewicz and Romanian actress Cosmina Stratan are among ten young Europeans selected as the European Film Promotion 2014 Shooting Stars.
12-12-2013

Warsaw AV Summit Countdown: Just two days left

Just two days left before the top Central European AV policy makers and film industry leaders gather on 11-12 December for the most important meeting of the year. FNE will…
10-12-2013

PRODUCTION: ScripTeast Winner Goes into Production

WARSAW: False Witness, the film written by Iglika Triffonova which won the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award at the fifth edition of ScripTeast, is now shooting.
10-12-2013

Alvernia Studios and Rat Entertainment Team up Magnitude 9

KRAKOW: Poland’s Alvernia Studios is partnering on the international coproduction Magnitude 9, a modern version of the Madame Butterfly story, which will be shot in Japan in 2014.
06-12-2013

Lankosz Adapting Crime Thriller

WARSAW: Borys Lankosz, director of the box office hit Reverse, will bring Zygmunt Miłoszewski's novel A Grain of Truth to the screen, with the Polish Film Institute cofinancing 50% of…
06-12-2013

PRODUCTION: Królikiewicz Returns with Neighbors

LODZ: After a long break, renowned Polish director Grzegorz Królikiewicz makes a comeback with Neighbors, a warm, absurd comedy about extraordinary people.
05-12-2013

PRODUCTION: Agnieszka Holland Preps Polish German Czech Coproduction

WARSAW: Agnieszka Holland is in preparation with Game Count (Polish title Pokot), a crime drama which will go into production in 2014.
28-11-2013

Ida Scores Double Wins

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida has won the Grand Prix of the Plus Camerimage film festival and the Best Film of Spain’s Gijon film festival.
27-11-2013

Aftermath scores international sales

WARSAW: Polish director Władysław Pasikowski’s controversial drama Aftermath has scored international distribution in the US, Russia and Slovakia.
25-11-2013

PRODUCTION: Kolski Completing Production on Heart

WARSAW: Jan Jakub Kolski will complete filming on Serce, serduszko i wyprawa na koniec świata (Heart, Heartling and the Journey To The End Of The World) at the end of…
22-11-2013

Poland Funds Digital Literacy Project

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP has received state funding to coordinate a new project aimed at making public media available to everyone.
22-11-2013