Locarno FF’s Industry Office launches STEP IN Focus on Eastern and Central Europe
{mosimage}CANNES: The Industry office of the Festival del film Locarno is announcing the launch of STEP IN, a new industry initiative in Cannes. The initiative will focus in 2012 on…
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…
Bulgaria Reports Film Production Decrease
SOFIA: The 2011 report from Bulgaria's National Statistics Institute showed that national film production was down compared with 2010, but cinema attendance rose by 12%.
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: ScriptTeast projects in Cannes
Throughout Cannes FNE will be highlighting the new projects being developed by scriptwriters working with ScripTeast. ScripTeast (www.scriptesat.pl) is supported by the MEDIA programme of the EU and the Polish…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Competition Amour
CANNES: Cannes Film Festival had to change the rules after Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher swept so many awards to prevent any film from dominating the festival to that extent…
PRODUCTION: Hallmark Film to Shoot at Castel Film
BUCHAREST: Confections of a Discarded Woman directed by Michael Damian for the U.S. Hallmark Channel is in preproduction at Castel Film.
PRODUCTION: Vagasi and Solomon Reteam on Roxanne
BUCHAREST: Hungarian producer Emoke Vagasi and Romanian producer Ada Solomon are in preproduction with Roxanne, the debut film of director Valentin Hotea. The two coproduced Best Intentions by Adrian Sitaru.
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Competition: Beyond the Hills
CANNES: Romania director Cristian Mungiu returns to Cannes with Beyond the Hills, his first feature since 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days which won the Palm d'Or in 2007 and…
Lithuanian Film in Cannes: Presentation of the newly established film centre
The national Lithuanian Films stand begins its work at the film market The Marché du Film at the 65th Cannes International Film Festival. Throughout 10 days of the film market…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Martin Aadamsoo talks to FNE about the new Estonian Film Commission
CANNES: Estonia recently established a new film commission to attract productions to the country. According to the commission's helmer Martin Aadamsoo the Estonians plan to put a different twist on…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Sofia's Last Ambulance at Critics' Week in Cannes
The only documentary in this year's selection, Sofia's Last Ambulance by Bulgarian filmmaker Ilian Metev will be presented in the Critics' Week competition in Cannes (May 17 - 25). Co-produced…
PRODUCTION: Fine, Thanks in Postproduction
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Matyas Prikler is in the sound mixing stage with Fine, Thanks, a film investigating the way the financial crisis is affecting the intimate lives of the people,…
Now, Forager Sold to Baltics
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish distributor New Europe Film Sales (www.neweuropefilmsales.com) has sold the US/Polish drama Now, Forager: A Film about Love and Fungi directed by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin to the…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Competition: Moonrise Kingdom
CANNES: Director Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened the Cannes Film Festival with a strange genre of film that can only be described as a "Wes Anderson" film. It is a…
