Audiovisual summit “From MEDIA to CREATIVE EUROPE” broadcast online
Warsaw: The audiovisual summit “From MEDIA to CREATIVE EUROPE started yesterday 11 December at 9.55 CET in Warsaw and film professionals are able to watch the event live online. FNE…
US Zodiak Picks up Polish Flapper and Friends
WARSAW: The Polish animated children’s series Flapper and Friends has been funded for a second season and has been picked up by Zodiak Rights Limited, a US company specializing in…
EFP Names Polish, Romanian Shooting Stars
Polish actor Mateusz Kościukiewicz and Romanian actress Cosmina Stratan are among ten young Europeans selected as the European Film Promotion 2014 Shooting Stars.
Georgia Opens Coproduction Funding Applications
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Center is accepting applications for funding for film coproductions.
Bulgarian Cinemania Rises above Political Turmoil
SOFIA: The 27th edition of Cinemania went ahead despite political protests which rocked Bulgaria in November.
Warsaw AV Summit Countdown: Just two days left
Just two days left before the top Central European AV policy makers and film industry leaders gather on 11-12 December for the most important meeting of the year. FNE will…
PRODUCTION: ScripTeast Winner Goes into Production
WARSAW: False Witness, the film written by Iglika Triffonova which won the Krzysztof Kieślowski Award at the fifth edition of ScripTeast, is now shooting.
Bulgarian Romanian Coproduction Selected for Sundance
Viktoria, a debut feature film from Maya Vitkova, will be the first Bulgarian film screening in the World Competition of the Sundance film festival.
Joj TV Fined for Foreign Language Violation
BRATISLAVA: Slovak commercial station Joj TV has been fined 200 EUR for breaching the Slovak law limiting foreign language broadcasting on a Slovak station.
Malta Raises Fees for Film Classification
VALETTA: The government of Malta has increased the fee of age-classification to 100 EUR for a film from the former fee of 50 EUR.
Czech Christmas Wings Soar at Box Office
PRAGUE: A Czech holiday drama, Vanoce Kridla (Wings of Christmas), held the number one spot at the domestic box office in its third week of release, taking in some 19m…
FNE IDF DocBloc: In Prison with Mum
Czech TV is producing a documentary on the effects of being raised inside a prison by an incarcerated mother.
Alvernia Studios and Rat Entertainment Team up Magnitude 9
KRAKOW: Poland’s Alvernia Studios is partnering on the international coproduction Magnitude 9, a modern version of the Madame Butterfly story, which will be shot in Japan in 2014.
Lankosz Adapting Crime Thriller
WARSAW: Borys Lankosz, director of the box office hit Reverse, will bring Zygmunt Miłoszewski's novel A Grain of Truth to the screen, with the Polish Film Institute cofinancing 50% of…
FNE TV: Ivo Andrle, head of Kino Aero and Aerofilms Distribution
FNE asked Czech exhibitor and distributor Ivo Andrle how being both an exhibitor and a distributor can help bring more European films to the Czech audience and what are his…
Going My Way 2 Continues to Top Slovenian Box Office
LJUBLJANA: Going My Way 2, Miha Hocevar’s follow up to his 2011 box office hit, landed in the number one spot at the Slovenian box office for the third week…
PRODUCTION: Królikiewicz Returns with Neighbors
LODZ: After a long break, renowned Polish director Grzegorz Królikiewicz makes a comeback with Neighbors, a warm, absurd comedy about extraordinary people.
FNE TV: Vivre Indren Head of sector Development for Creative Europe-MEDIA sub-programme
FNE spoke to Vivre Indren about the first call for the new Creative Europe-MEDIA that will be published in December and what will be the biggest changes that MEDIA applicants…
Bulgaria’s Odeon Expands Activities with New Releases
SOFIA: The newly renovated and digitalised Odeon cinema, which since 1972 has primarily screened archive films, showed its first commercially distributed film, Woody Allen’s 2013 Blue Jasmine.
FNE Europa Distribution - Distributor of the Month: Tommi Salmelainen
FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face -…
