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.
Georgia Plans 2015 Calls for Funding
TBLISI: The Gerogian National Film Center will announce 2015 production contests in five categories.
New Minister of Culture Appointed in Bulgaria
SOFIA: Martin Ivanov has been named as the new Minister of Culture in the caretaker government just appointed by the country’s President Rosen Plevneliev.
CentEast 2014 - submit your work-in-progress!
The call for works-in-progress from Eastern Europe to participate in CentEast Warsaw-Moscow is now open! The deadline for submissions is Friday, 5th of September 2014.
PRODUCTION: Gladiators. A Different World in Production
VILNIUS: Director Arūnas Matelis is in production with his feature length documentary Gladiators. A Different World/Gladiatoriai. Kita planeta, a Lithuanian, Italian, Belgian, Swiss, Irish, Northern Ireland/UK and Latvian coproduction.
