Stefan Kitanov receives Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award
PARIS: Sofia Film Festival helmer and Bulgarian producer, distributor and exhibitor Stefan Kitanov has been awarded this year’s Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Kitanov runs the Dom na…
FNE at Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month print version
FNE at Europa Cinemas: FNE offers you its Cinema of the Month print version, published in honour of the Europa Cinemas conference which kicks of in Paris today, 23 November…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Lenin?!
COTTBUS: A Russian outpost in northern Kyrgyzstan is the setting for a U.K. produced black comedy about three punks who, unwittingly steal a statue of a Russian icon, Lenin?!
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: A Good Wife
COTTBUS: Serbian star Mirjana Karanovic (When Father Was Away on Business, Grbavica) will make her writing and directing debut with a post-Yugoslav war film A Good Wife.
FNE AVP Live ! Elena Romanova head of the International Department of the Russian Cinema Fund
FNE asked Romanova how EU producers can coproduce successfully with Russia, during the Red Square Screenings in Moscow. See the full interview on FNE TV.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Freedom or Death
COTTBUS: Following the success of Punk’s Not Dead which won the East of the West award at the 2011 Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com), Macedonian director Vladimir Blazevski and Punk Film…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: The Mute
COTTBUS: Polish director Bartek Konopka, whose imaginative and clever 2009 documentary Rabbit a la Berlin received an Oscar nomination, presented his new project The Mute at the 2012 edition of…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Family Film
COTTBUS: Czech producer Jiri Konecny of endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz) teams up with FAMU (www.famu.cz) trained Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu for his second film shot in the Czech Republic, Family Film.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Three Windows and a Hanging
COTTBUS: Kosovo made its first appearance at the Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de) pitching forum with Three Windows and a Hanging, a dramatic post-war story from leading Kosovo director Isa Qosja.
Cinema City Posts Q3 Recovery
PRAGUE: Cinema City (www.cinemacity.nl), the largest multiplex operator in CEE, recovered most of its earlier 2012 losses in the third quarter, with revenues up 8 percent, to 74.9 m EUR,…
HBO Europe Appoints Harrison as COO
BUDAPEST: HBO Europe (www.hbo-europe.com) announced the appointment of Will Harrison to the new position of Chief Operating Officer.
FNE AVP Live ! Nik Powell, Director of UK National Film and TV School
FNE asks Nik Powell about the future of Creative Europe and how producers in small and large countries can build effective partnerships. Read more...
New Russian studio already Glavkino fully booked until end of 2012
MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex has announced that it is already fully booked until the end of 2012. The strong uptake from…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Kills on Wheels
COTTBUS: Hungarian producer Judit Stalter of Lakoon Film (www.lakoonfilm.com) and writer/director Attila Till are in development with Kills on Wheels, the first coproduction between Hungary and Denmark
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Mellow Mud
COTTBUS: Mellow Mud from debuting Latvian director Remars Vimba and producers Aija Berzina and Alise Gelze of Tasse Film (www.tasse.lv) emerged as one of the strongest contenders at the Connecting…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: House of Others
COTTBUS: Georgian director Rusudan Glurjidze and her coproducer Zurab Magalashvili of Cinetech Production (www.cinetech.ge) pitched a Cuacasus post-war drama, House of Others, at the 14th edition of Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de).
FNE at Cottbus Film Festival 2012: Poland Takes Top Prizes in Cottbus
COTTBUS: A strong Polish presence at the 22nd Film Festival Cottbus (www.filmfestivalcottbus.de) was validated with three of the festival’s top awards, including the main best film award with a prize…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Cottbus Pitches a Strong Field of Contenders
COTTBUS: Projects from Hungary, Poland, Serbia and Kyrgyzstan generated strong interest at the 14th edition of Connecting Cottbus, also known informally as CoCo (www.connecting-cottbus.de).
PRODUCTION: Petr Zelenka’s CoCo Pitch Winner in Preproduction
COTTBUS: Lost in Munich directedy by Petr Zelenka, the Czech film which won the 2011 Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de) Best Pitch Award, is in preproduction for a June 2013 shoot.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Film Funding Opportunities Increase for CEE
COTTBUS: New film funding opportunities for filmmakers in Central and Eastern Europe are emerging across the region, including backing for minority coproductions which is crucial especially in smaller countries.