FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Interview with Founder Patrick Jucaud
FNE continues its special report on DISCOP Budapest 2011 (21-23 June, www.discop,com) with an interview with DISCOP founder Patrick Jucaud. In the FNE reports, we look at adapted content --…
MTG Announces CEE Management Changes
Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se), the international entertainment broadcasting group, announced that Anders Nilsson, Chief Operating Officer of MTG, will assume responsibility for the Group's pay-TV operations in the…
Menzel Honored in Romania
The Oscar-winning Czech director Jiri Menzel received a special award from the President of Romania Traian Basescu during a retrospective of Menzel's films in Bucharest.
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Certain Regard: Elena
CANNES: Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev returns to form with his new feature Elena fulfilling the promise of his 2003 debut The Return. Elena deservedly won the Special Jury Prix in…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Cannes Film Festival Winners
CANNES: A jury headed by Robert De Niro awarded the Palm d'Or to Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. The Grand Prix was shared by The Kid with a Bike…
IPTV Revenues to Triple
Revenues for IPTV operators in CEE are predicted to triple by 2017, according to a report from analysists Frost & Sullivan. Revenue, which amounted to 90 million euros in 2010,…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Competition: Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
CANNES: Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to Cannes IFF for the fourth time with Once Upon A Time in Anatolia and looks set to take home another prize with this latest…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: FNE and Russian distributors presented at Russian Pavilion Roundtable
CANNES: Film New Europe (http://www.filmneweurope.com/) was presented at the Russian Pavilion during a Roundtable on Russian Film Distribution in Cannes on 17 May 2011. Speakers at the roundtable were distinguished…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Competition: Melancholia
CANNES: Lars Von Trier's latest film Melancholia is ostensibly about the end of life on planet Earth, although the planet that Von Trier presents us with bears little resemblance to…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: False Witness Wins ScripTeast Award
CANNES: Bulgarian Script writer Iglika Triffonova was awarded the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for best Eastern and Central European Script at a gala awards ceremony in during Cannes IFF on 18…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: 60 Seconds of Solitude In Year Zero
CANNES: On 17 May the Estonian Pavilion (Pantiero 212) at the Cannes Festival 2011 celebrated the international film project 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, a non-profit project dedicated…
FNE - IDF DocBlock: Aristoteles Workshop - Call for Entries 2011
Supported by CNC Romania, ARTE/France and MEDIA, Aristoteles Workshop has over the past five years become a unique training programme, offering both a hands-on approach and a continuous tutoring system,…
ScripTeast Applications Open
ScripTeast, the screenwriting lab now wrapping up in Cannes, is accepting applications for its next session, which begins in September.
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Competition: Le Harve
CANNES: Director Aki Kaurismaki’s first film in French language, Le Harve, loses none of the distinctive Kaurismaki style and ironic humour. Shot in the French seaport of Le Harve, the…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2011: Competition: Tree of Life
CANNES: Director Terrence Malick has succeeded in creating the very first American myth as film for the post war generation. No American who grew up in the 1950's will fail…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: Recycling TV Content Produced in CEE
When DISCOP East (www.discop.com) launched in Budapest twenty years ago under the direction of DISCOP founder Patrick Jucaud, TV in Central and Eastern Europe was still in the process of…
