CentEast Moscow Market in Red Square
MOSCOW: The fourth annual CentEast Moscow Market (www.centeast.eu) has found a slot in the new Red Square Screenings, (15-19 October 2012) a new initiative backed by the Russian Cinema Fund.
Hungary, Romania on EFA Short Film List
Six films from Central Europe have been nominated for the European Films Academy’s (www.europeanfilmacademy.org) Short Film 2012 award.
FNE AVP Live ! Doris Pack, Chair Culture and Education Committee, European Parliament
FNE AVP Live ! Interview with Doris Pack, Chair Culture and Education Committee, European Parliament. FNE asks Pack about the future of the audiovisual industry in Europe and the Creative…
FNE AVP Live ! Aviva Silver, Chair of MEDIA Committee of the European Commission.
FNE EXCLUSIVE: FNE asks Silver about Create Europe and what it means for the European audiovisual industry.
New Pay TV Channels Launch in CEE
Fox International Channels (www.foxinternationalchannels.com) plans to introduce its pay TV Fox channel in nine Balkan countries on 15 October 2012.
CEE Selects Oscar Hopefuls
Leading up to the 1 October 2012 deadline for the Oscar’s Best Foreign Language Film submissions, Central Europeans unveiled their Oscar contenders. The following films have been selected to represent…
Baltic Oscar Films Lead Local Box Office
Baltic films looking for Oscar nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film category are finding domestic box office success in Estonia and Finland.
FNE AVP Live ! MEP Mary Honeyball
FNE AVP Live ! Interview with UK MEP Mary Honeyball, member of the Culture and Education Committee of the EU Parliament. FNE asks Honeyball about Creative Europe and how the…
CARTOON Offering CEE Scholarships
WARSAW: CARTOON MASTERS (www.cartoon-media.eu) is accepting applications for scholarships to its finance workshop for professionals from new MEDIA Programme/new EU member states. The deadline for applications is 12 October 2012.
FNE AVP Live ! Detlef Rossmann President CICAE
FNE AVP Live ! Interview with Detlef Rossman, President of CICAE, (International Confederation of Art Cinemas). FNE asks Rossman about digitalisation and the other challenges facing European distributors and exhibitors.
TVP wins Prix Italia
WARSAW: The TV Polska (www.tvp.pl) series The Deep End took the Best Series award at the 64th Prix Italia TV Festival, following its Gold Plaque at the Hugo TV Awards.
PRODUCTION: Bosnia and Croatia team up for Hotel Drina project
SARAJEVO: Director Šahin Šišić is in very early development with Hotel Drina, a cinematic adaptation of the play I Left My Heart in Zvornik, by the writer, scriptwriter and poet…
Work is in progress on filmneweurope.com: FNE Daily delivery
Film New Europe has launched a new website with faster and better technical capabilities and you will be seeing some changes and improvements over the next few weeks as we…
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master provokes storm of controversy at prize ceremony
LONDON: American director Paul Thomas Anderson took home the runner-up Silver Lion Prix of the Venice Film Festival for The Master amid a storm of controversy after The Hollywood Reporter…
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Venice Film Festival Prize Winners
VENICE: Korean director Kim Ki-duk collected the Golden Lion for Best film for his ultra violent Pieta in a year that saw Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies: Glaube as the only film…
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Competition: Spring Breakers
VENICE: Oldies beware Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers might seem slight but the buzz from younger Euro-critics after its first screening in Venice was decidedly positive.
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Competition: Outrage Beyond
VENICE: Japanese director and actor Takeshi Kitano returns to Venice with his sequel to his gory but beautifully choreographed 2010 hit Outrage. Beyond Outrage takes up where Outrage left off…
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Competition: To The Wonder
VENICE: Terrence Malick was never going to have an easy time trying to follow-up on his Tree of Life success but To The Wonder rather underwhelms in the attempt. While…
Weak Admissions Drive Down Revenues for Cinema City
ROTTERDAM: Cinema City International (cinemacity.nl), Central Europe’s largest multiplex operator, reported a 5.5 percent decline in revenues and 4.9 percent decline in ticket sales in the first half of 2012…
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Competition: The Master
VENICE: Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s portrait of religious cult in post World War II America is definitely one of the most powerful entries in this year’s Biennale Film Festival competition.
