FNE at Anifilm 2015: Spain, Latvia Take Top Awards
TREBON: Spanish director Sam Conflictivos won the Anifilm Grand Jury Prize in the competition of animated films for adults for his claymation film Possessed and the special recognition went to…
Public TV Broadcasters in Slovenia and Slovakia Animate Content Funding
TREBON: Speaking at a panel consisting of TV broadcaster from across the CEE region, representatives from the public broadcasting channels in Slovakia and Slovenia said that recent new sources of…
Attention all FIPRESCI members coming to Cannes: Limited Edition Turkish DVD Box Set
Be one of the first 5 to sign up for the FNE FIPRESCI Cannes Critics ratings and we will send you a beautiful box set of DVDs of the Best…
Cartoon Forum Launches First International Cooperation with Visegrad Animation Forum
TREBON, Czech Republic: Central Europe’s animation pitching forum, the Visegrad Animation Forum (VAF), will send the winners of its TV series pitches to Cartoon Forum in September.
Red Planet Wins Wajda Script Pro 2015 Prize
KRAKOW: Jaroslaw Marszewski won the 2015 SCRIPT PRO competition organized by the Wajda School and awarded in Krakow on 6 May for his script Red Planet White Flag.
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Coproduction Debut The Woman of My Life in Postproduction
SOFIA: Bulgarian director Antoniy Donchev is in postproduction with his first feature film The Woman of My Life coproduced by Bulgarian Ars, Macedonia’s KT Film & Media, Romania’s Peter Film…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Doc Award at Plzen
PLZEN: Czech and Slovak films shared the documentary prizes handed out in Plzen.
International Conference on Film and Media Education
WARSAW: The international conference ‘Film and media education in Poland and the world – systemic solutions and case studies’, which was organized by the Polish Film Institute and Centre for…
European Film Industry Voices Concerns over Single Digital Market Strategy
WARSAW: European film industry professionals and organisations have voiced strong concerns about the strategy for the creation of a single digital market across the EU adopted on 6 May by…
BEST OF LET’S CEE: Slovenian Film Days 2015 in Graz
VIENNA: Austria’s LET’S CEE Film Festival will once again put a spotlight on neighbouring Slovenia with the second edition of Slovenian Film Days taking place in Graz on 9 and…
CME Remains Optimistic as OBIDA Climbs to Black
HAMILTON, BERMUDA: Central European Media Enterprises touted a healthy rise in revenues minus operating costs to 11.4m USD in Q1 2015, compared with a loss of -3.4m USD for the…
Box Office and Admissions Rise Across CEE
STRASBOURG: With some notable exceptions, box office and admissions saw at least a modest rise in most CEE territories in 2014, according to the newly published report from the European…
PRODUCTION: Slovak OUT Heads to Cannes L'Atelier before Shooting Begins
BRATISLAVA: The first Slovak film, the feature debut OUT (Vychladnutie) by FAMU graduate György Kristóf, has been selected for the 11th Cinéfondation L’Atelier, taking place as part of the Cannes…
Winnetou Returns to Croatia
ZAGREB: Nearly half a century since the Balkan Western Winnetou film series roped in herds of fans across Eastern Europe, a TV film trilogy based on the popular Karl May…
PRODUCTION: Slovak Cross-Genre Waiting Room Completed
BRATISLAVA: Slovak scriptwriter/director Palo Korec has completed work on the feature length film essay Waiting Room (Čakáreň).
PRODUCTION: Ryszard Bugajski Shooting Stalinist Drama in Warsaw
WARSAW: Ryszard Bugajski has started shooting the dramatic film Zaćma, inspired by the life of a Stalinist member of the infamous Polish Ministry of Security known as "Bloody Luna."
Polański Returns to Krakow to Receive Award
KRAKOW: Roman Polański returned to Poland to pick up an award at the PKO Off Camera Festival in Krakow, his home town.
FNE at Finale Plzen 2015: Petr Vaclav Scores Another Win
PLZEN: The Way Out, which marked Petr Václav’s return to directing after an absence of 13 years, took the main award at the 28th Finale Plzen Film Festival which wrapped…
Mazovia Film Fund Awards Grants to Five Films
WARSAW: The Mazovia Film Fund handed out grants totaling some 200,000 EUR to two feature films, two documentaries, and one animated film.
Baltic's Forum Cinemas Parent Company Acquired by UK Firm
TALLIN: The Baltic states' Forum Cinemas parent company Nordic Cinema Group has been acquired by UK-based private equity group Bridgepoint.
