Markiza to Launch Men’s Channel
BRATISLAVA: TV Markíza (www.markiza.sk), Slovakia's leading broadcaster owned by Central European Media Enterprises (www.cetv-net.com), is set to launch a third channel by the end of August 2012,.
PRODUCTION: Slovak Documentary Indiano from Zihlava
BRATISLAVA: Miro Remo is in production with Indiano from Zihlava, a long documentary on the amateur Slovak films of the late 1970's. The directors of hundreds of such films "tried…
FNE at Art Film Fest: CEE Filmmakers Triumph at Art Film Fest
{mosimage}Twilight Portrait by director Angelina Nikonova won the Blue Angel for Best Film at Art Film Fest (www.artfilm.sk), held from 16 to 23 June 2012 in the Slovak spa and…
PRODUCTION: Debut Tak Fajn in Postproduction
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Paul Janik makes his directing debut with the comedy Tak Fajn after appearing in films and on TV since the age of 4, and spending 16 years in NYC,…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Slovaks Unveil Films in Progress
{mosimage}TRENCIANSKE TEPLICE, SLOVAKIA: Six films in various stages of development and production have been selected to participate in the Slovak Film Institute's (www.aic.sk) Forum 2012, a presentation of upcoming films…
PRODUCTION: New Matej Minac project A History of a Film Never Shot in Development
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Slovak filmmaker Matej Mináč (All My Loved Ones, Nicky's Family) is developing a docu comedy based on real life events and retracing the history of his unfulfilled dream to…
PRODUCTION: Stanko in Preproduction
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Rasto Boros is preparing to shoot the feature film Stanko in Slovakia, Austria and Italy in summer-fall 2012. On the background of the topic of human trafficking, this road…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Old Souls’s Day
BRATISLAVA: As part of the cycle CineStories/ Filmoviedky on Slovak Television (www.stv.sk), Stanislav Párnický's Dusicky seniorov/Old Souls's Day follows the destinies of a community living in a retirement home following…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Fair Play
BRATISLAVA: Fair Play is a 52 minute documentary portrait by director/scriptwriter Arnold Kojnok of the important Slovak artist Julius Koller. It screens in the Slovak Season section of Art Film…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Bells of Happiness
BRATISLAVA: At the heart of Bells of Happiness, a 70 minute documentary directed by Jana Bucka and Marek Sulik, are Mariena and Roman, two Roma cousins connected by their admiration…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Tigers in the City
BRATISLAVA: Tigers in the City, the 90 minute debut of Juraj Krasnohorsky, follows three friends in their late 20's as they try to find their soul mates against the menacing…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Dancing on Broken Glass
BRATISLAVA: Drawing from folkdancing's musical tradition, Marek Ťapak's film Dancing on Broken Glass (screening in the Slovak Season section at Art Film Festival 16-23 June 2012, www.artfilmfest.sk) is based on…
FESTIVALS: Twelve Films Compete at Art Film Festival
Twelve films representing 17 countries will compete for the Blue Angel in the the International Competition of Feature Films of the 20th Art Film Fest, running from 16 to 23…
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION: Vojtek Filming Children
BRATISLAVA: Jaroslav Vojtek (The Border) started shooting his first feature in May 2012. If in his documentary Unwanted Children/ Nechcené deti (2001) he was dealing with children from foster homes,…
FESTIVALS: Europeans Dominate Art Film Fest Competition
As in previous years, the centrepiece of the 20th Art Film Fest (www.artfilmfest.sk), running from 16 to 23 June in Trenčianske Teplice and Trenčín, will be the International Competition of…
FESTIVALS: Anniversary Screening for Sun in a Net
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia will commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Sun in a Net with a gala premiere of the digitally restored version of the classic film by Stefan Uher at…
PRODUCTION: I Mean It, Lord in Postproduction
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Iva Kúšiková finished principal shooting I Mean It, Lord, a TV documentary on the deportation of nuns into labour camps in the 1950's, and began editing in…
FESTIVALS: Art Film Fest Presents New Slovak Films
A selection of new Slovak films will be screened in the Slovak Season section of the Art Film Fest (www.artfilmfest.sk) taking place 16-23 June in Trencianske Teplice and Trencin, Slovakia.
PRODUCTION: Sulik Documentary in Postproduction
BRATISLAVA: Martin Sulik (Gypsy, The City of the Sun) is in postproduction with A Pilgrim through Slovak Times,a 52 minute documentary on the director, screenwriter, playwright, art director and ethnographist…
PRODUCTION: Documentary Comeback in Postproduction
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Miro Remo is in postproduction with the documentary Comeback, a social study of the world of prisoners following the life of two repeat offenders as they make…
