FNE at Tbilisi IFF 2012: Tbilisi Prize Winners
TBILISI: Polish director Slawomir Fabicki took home the Golden Prometheus, the top award of the international competition, at the 13th Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) for his film Loving. Georgian…
FNE TV at European Film Academy Awards 2012: Malta
FNE TV spoke to two of the prize winners at the awards ceremony in Malta, Tudor Giurgiu, winner of best short film for Superman, Spiderman or Batman (click here) and…
FNE TV at Europa Cinemas Conference 2012: Stefan Kitanov, Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year
FNE spoke to Stefan Kitanov at the recent Europa Cinemas Conference in Paris about how to get audiences into cinemas in Europe and his plans for the development of Bulgarian…
New Bulgarian documentaries distributed in the national cinema network
SOFIA: Borislav’s Kolev full-length documentary Stoichkov dedicated to the worldwide football legend Hristo Stoichkov and Ilian Metev’s Sofia’s Last Ambulance focused on the daily life of an ambulance team in…
Peter Greenaway tracks Brancusi in Romania
BUCHAREST: Following the shooting of Goltzius and the Pelican Company in Croatia, Peter Greenaway is eyeing the possibility of shifiting to Romania for a feature inspired by the life of…
Hungary Launches Film and TV Awards
BUPAPEST: Actor and director Hakan Yildiz and a collection of independent filmmakers are organizing Hungary's first official film and TV awards, the HUFTAs (www.hungarianfilmtvawards.com), scheduled to take place 1 June…
FNE TV: Baltic Event 2012: Anna Katchko: New Kazakh Cinema
FNE spoke to producer Anna Katchko in Tallinn about the Baltic Event’s new B’EST programme and the new opportunities that are opening up for European producers to cooperate with Kazakhstan.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Retrospective
Documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter has a gift for connecting the dots in Europe's increasingly industrialized world, as his compelling work in Abendland and Our Daily Bread illustrate.
Film Spring Open Aims to Democratize Production
WARSAW: Film Spring Open (www.filmspringopen.eu/previs.html), a new system for creating "previsualizations" (or Previs) for feature proposals, is hoped to boost both the prospects of indie filmmakers and the number of…
PRODUCTION: Vinnie Jones in Lithuania UK coproduction Flight Redirected
VILNIUS: Controversial director Emilis Velyvis is working on his new action-comedy-thriller Flight Redirected, the story of four friends turned first-time robbers, who get stranded in an Eastern Europe and have…
Proposed changes for TV ad buying in Romania provoke controversy
BUCHAREST: According to critics, new changes to regulations of TV ad buying in Romania would also impact upon other areas of TV and cable market, including limiting editorial control for…
New Russian studio Glavkino looks to busy 2013
MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex is already looking at a busy start to 2013 after finishing up its first year of operation…
Hrebejk Film Day for Date Release Delivers Limited Results
PRAGUE: The simultaneous theatrical and VOD release of Jan Hrebejk's Waste, City and Death, an adaptation of a Rainer Werner Fassbinder script and stage play in Prague has brought in…
First Czech Audiovisual Cluster Planned for Zlin
ZLIN: Tomas Bata University (www.utb.cz) officials have announced that this Moravian city, with its strong film industry tradition, will host the initiative CreaClust to connect art and business in the…
Czech broadcaster NOVA TV to launch new channel
PRAGUE: Leading Czech commercial broadcaster TV Nova (tv.nova.cz) has asked the state for permission to launch a new channel, which it would call Smichov, described as offering content of a…
Slovakia Announces Grants – the 4th round
Slovak Audiovisual Fund (www.avf.sk) announced the projects supported at the fourth round of 2012. The decision was approved by Martin Šmatlák, the Director of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund on 19…
Georgian fest kicks off with Istvan Szabo’s The Door
TBILISI: The 13th edition of the Georgia's Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) kicked off last night (3 December 2012) with a screening of Istvan Szabo’s The Door, with the Oscar…
Cinema City to Open Multiplex in Romania
BUCHAREST: The Cinema City group (www.cinemacity.ro) has announced its first multiplex in the city of Ploiesti, which raises to 14 the number opened by the exhibitor nationwide to date.
War Witch Wins at Plus Camerimage
BYDGOSZCZ: Cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc won the Golden Frog for his work with director Kim Nguyen.
FNE at EFA 2012: Haneke’s Amour sweeps EFA Awards
MALTA: Michael Haneke’s Amour swept the EFA awards winning best film, best director and best actor and actress awards leaving other contenders with little to divide between the remaining films.
