FESTIVALS: Judgment in Hungary Wins One World 2014
PRAGUE: Judgement in Hungary directed by Eszter Hajdú tales the Best Film award at the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
CT Art Channel Hits its Stride
PRAGUE: Czech TV’s new Art Channel has reached an audience share of 0.59% as it marks six months since its launch, putting it on a par with cultural channels elsewhere…
SIFF 2014 Unveils 34 Bulgarian Films
SOFIA: The 18th Sofia International Film Fest will screen 34 Bulgarian films including ten supported by the Bulgarian NFC and the rest of the production mostly privately financed.
Georgian Mini EAVE Accepting Applications
TBLISIS: The Georgian National Film Center and EAVE have announced a call for applications for developing Georgian film projects and scripts.
Polsat bringing Hell's Kitchen to Poland
WARSAW: Polish private broadcaster Polsat is betting on success with adapting a culinary reality TV format from New Zealand, with shooting set for 5 March.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Seven projects engage with cross-media
Documentary development organization East Doc Platform is betting on seven surprisingly diverse "socio-eco-politically oriented" projects, presenting them today at Prague's Cervantes Institute in the context of the One World festival.
Jack Strong just shy of 1 million
WARSAW: A spy thriller from Władysław Pasikowski is set to be the first film hitting a million in Polish admissions for 2014, surpassing big international titles.
Febiofest expands into new venues
PRAGUE: The 21st edition of the city's biggest film gala, Febiofest, running 20-28 March in the Cinestar Andel multiplex, has announced its program, encompassing 141 films from 60 countries. In…
Top Malta Production Outfit Rebrands as U-Film
VALLETTA: Leading production company U-Film, a 15-year veteran of films shot in and around Malta, has rebranded from its previous iteration, Film Corporation.
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Kino Visegrad
This month we are presenting the only film club in Paris showing Central and Eastern European films and we speak with Marketa Hodouskova, one of its founders.
Silver Eye docu nominees' work streamed free
PRAGUE: In conjunction with the One World docu fest, the work of documentarians who are in the running for the Silver Eye award is being hosted online gratis 3-9 March…
Georgian animation projects sought
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center has announced a competition for animated short films. Winning projects will be eligible for support from this development program.
BBCWorldwide teams with Poland's Apple Film TVP on WWI series
Building on last year's pact to co-produce a Spies in Warsaw together, the BBC and Polish pubcaster TVP have signed a deal with Apple Film Production in Poland for a…
Polish Film Institute supports historic feature
Feature filmmakers, documentarians, animators and screenwriters have won sum of 5 411 488 EUR in the latest round of funding from the Polish Film Institute (PISF). Best funded project Nienawiść…
Four Latvian films win co-financing
Four foreign films in development have won some 400,000 EUR through the co-financing program of the National Film Centre of Latvia, according to the organization. The winning projects scored the…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: 12 films supported by IDF screen at One World
The Prague-based Institute for Documentary Film has backed scores of projects over the past year through it Ex Oriente, East European Forum and East Silver programs. A dozen, covering a…
East Doc Platform expands at One World
PRAGUE: The third edition of East Doc Platform, a development program run by the Czech Republic's Institute of Documentary Film (IDF), rolls out 3-9 March, coinciding with the One World…
One World fest focuses on world of work
PRAGUE: The venerated human rights film fest One World, running 3-12 March, has announced a program of provocative films that examine the true costs of work on ordinary people's lives.…
Slovak workshop to host Oscar-nommed DP
BRATISLAVA: The Visegrad Film Forum, set for 11-13 March, has announced it will host Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, who filled Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon (2009) for a day-long lecture.
Pierce Brosnan headed to Bulgaria shoot
SOFIA: Action film star Pierce Brosnan, known for his roles as super agent 007, is shooting parts of the $35 million suspense film Survivor in Bulgaria, according to broadcast news…
