Sverak Film Closes in on Opening Weekend Record
PRAGUE: The new fairy tale Three Brothers by Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák had attendance of 122,000 in its opening weekend, second only to the Czech record set by the 2013…
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: CEE Films in Venice Line-up
VENICE: Films from Croatia, Georgia, Romania and Poland have all scored slots in the official line-up of the 71st Venice International Film Festival 27 August-6 September 2014.
Attention all FIPRESCI members coming to Venice IFF
FNE together with FIPRESCI will offer the ratings of all feature films in the official programme of Venice International Film Festival 2014 by FIPRESCI members attending the Festival.*
PRODUCTION: Iglika Trifonova in Postproduction with False Witness
SARAJEVO: Bulgaria’s award-winning Iglika Trifoniva (Letter to America, Investigation) is in postproduction with her Hague Tribunal fiction False Witness, an ambitious coproduction between Bulgaria’s Klass Film , Holland’s Phanta Vision…
FESTIVALS: Zadar Avvantura 2014 Competition
ZADAR: Ten films are screening in the international competition of first and second feature films at the Avvantura Festival taking place 23-29 August 2014.
3D Content Financing Market Accepting Applications for December Edition
LIEGE: The 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM), an international co-production and financing market for projects for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) contents, is open for applications through 31 August 2014, for the market…
PRODUCTION: Milko Lazarov in Development with Nanook
SOFIA: Milko Lazarov, whose minimalist, almost dialogue-free low budget debut film Alienation became Bulgaria’s 2013 creative surprise, is developing Nanook produced by his company Red Carpet.
First CEE Oscar Contenders Announced
Poland, Hungary and Romania are among the first countries to select the films that will represent them in the Oscar foreign film category.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Oma Export
Bosnia and Herzegovina teams up with Germany on a documentary about a German pensioner looking for a better life in Eastern Europe.
Polish Film Karbala to Shoot in Kurdistan
Polish and Kurdish sources announced that the feature film Karbala is being shot in the Kurdistan region as well as in Poland.
Malta Film Commission Takes on British Interns
Four British university student interns will each spend three months in Malta working with the Malta Film Commission.
PRODUCTION: The Man Who Knew 75 Languages in Production
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian/Polish/Norwgian docudrama The Man Who Knew 75 Languages from director Anne Magnussen and co-director Pawel Debski has gone into production.
Profits Rise at TVP
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP recorded a profit of 116 m PLN within the first six months of 2014, a stunning 107.4 m PLN more than for the same period…
TVP Sees More International Sales
WARSAW: Series and films produced by Poland’s public broadcaster TVP are being sold worldwide to territories including Estonia, Latvia, China and Korea.
Polish Oscar Candidate Ida Continues International Rollout
WARSAW: Pawel Pawlikowski’s recently announced Oscar contender Ida is set for premieres in Slovakia, Hungary, UK, Denmark and Sweden.
Creative Europe Desk Polska and KIPA Focus on Viewers
WARSAW: August 11, 2014 is the deadline for project submissions to the workshop that will take place during the 39th Gdynia Film Festival.
First Bollywood Film Shoots in Romania
BUCHAREST: Director Binoy Gandhi is shooting an untitled Bollywood film on location in Romania according to local Indian media reports.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Documentary Panel
The 2014 panel of upcoming Czech documentaries is set for 29 September 2014.
Czech law office KMVS supports filmmakers from development to distribution
PRAGUE: Today’s rapidly changing audiovisual environment presents filmmakers with new challenges in all areas of production and distribution including in the legal sector.
Lodz, FAMU Top Best Film Schools List
PRAGUE: Poland’s Lodz Film School and Prague’s FAMU film school rank high among the top fifteen international film schools in the Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 annual listings.
