Bulgarian Parliament Takes Steps Toward Production Incentives
SOFIA: A parliamentary committee has changed an investment promotion law (www.parliament.bg) to allow Bulgaria to reward investors producing films with budgets over 400,000 leva (203,000 EUR) but the form of…
PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production
WARSAW: French director Leila Ferault-Levy and Polish producer Marcin Latałło’s Camera Obscura are in production on Cenotaphe (Pomnik), an intimate documentary on crimes of genocide committed during World War II.
Films from Central and Eastern Europe to Compete at Sundance
WARSAW: Feature from Poland and a Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian coproduction will screen at Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic section. A documentary from Georgia will also compete.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: IDFA 2012 Celebrates 25 Years with Style
A look back at the 25th edition of IDFA and the CEE films presented this year at Europe's most significant documentary festival. Click HERE to read the full story on…
FNE at European Film Academy Awards 2012: Malta
MALTA: Malta will host the 25th anniversary edition of the European Film Awards 1 December at the island’s Mediterranean Conference Centre, a spectacular venue built in 1574.
France Honors Karlovy Vary's Eva Zaoralova
PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary festival's former artistic director was feted this week when the French Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Pierre Lévy, conferred upon Eva Zaoralova the second grade of…
FNE EXCLUSIVE: Ilze Gailite Holmberg, Director of National Film Centre of Latvia
FNE asks Ilze Gailite Holmberg about developments in the Latvian film industry in 2012, the major achievements in the last five years and about the things still to be done.
PRODUCTION: Fright Night 2 Shooting Entirely in Romania
BUCHAREST: Shooting for Eduardo Rodriguez's horror comedy Fright Night 2 started 25 November in Romania. 20th Century Fox (www.foxmovies.com) is producing with the Romania's Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro) providing services.
FNE at Baltic Event 2012: Market Awards Announced
TALLINN: The Baltic Event CoProduction Market, 25-28 November 2012 (be.poff.ee) gave its top prize of 5000 EUR in post production services at the new Estonian Digital Centre, to Lithuanian producer…
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Premysl Martinek: Czech Republic
FNE together with Europa Distribution (www.europa-distribution.org) continues its Distributor of the Month series. In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face,…
PRODUCTION: On the Sea with Badjao Unites Poles, Germans and Brits
WARSAW: Polish, German and English crews are in production On the Sea with Badjao, a documentary that shows an ironic clash of cultures that knows no winner.
FNE at Baltic Event: Eastern Business in Development
BUCHAREST: Moldavian writer/director Igor Cobileanski is developing a road movie comedy involving two friends from the republic of Moldavia who get into laughable situations as they try to get money…
FNE at Black Nights FF 2012: Awards announced in Tallinn
TALLINN: The grand prix of the 16th Black Nights Film Festival (www.poff.ee) was awarded to the Ukrainian film House with a Turret, the Tridens Herring competition prize was awarded to…
PRODUCTION: Cieslar in Postproduction with English Lingo Colette
BRATISLAVA: Czech director Milan Cieslar is postproduction with the last work by Czech author Arnost Lustig, the screen adaptation of Lustig’s 1992 novel Colette. The film will be Cieslar’s first…
Polish box office hit You Are God Dominates at Golden Duck Awards
WARSAW: Leszek Dawid's drama You Are A God won three Golden Duck awards, the oldest Polish cinema prize assigned by monthly magazine Film at a gala in Warsaw on 26…
Discovery Channel Removal Prompts Change in Audiovisual Law
BUCHAREST: The move by TV and internet market leader RCS & RDS (www.rcs-rds.ro) to remove the Discovery Channel (www.dsc.discovery.com) from its offerings on 23 November 2012, without informing its audience,…
Romania Announces Grants Contest
BUCHAREST: The Romanian National Center for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) will give 2,206,000 EUR (10m RON) in production and development grants in 2012. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2013.
Banderas Shooting Automata in Bulgaria
SOFIA: Antonio Banderas has confirmed he will shoot the sci-fi film Automata in Bulgaria. The film is currently in pre-production.
PRODUCTION: Rebellion in Postproduction in Poland
WARSAW: Director Małgorzata Kozera is in postproduction with the documentary Rebellion (Bunt) focused on the biggest anti-government riots in Eastern Europe in 1989, the year of the collapse of communism.…
FNE EXCLUSIVE: Riina Sildos, Managing Director, Baltic Event
FNE asks Estonian producer and Baltic Event helmer, Riina Sildos about this year’s 11th edition of the event and about the reorganisation of the structures that underpin the Estonian film…
