Parliamentary Grant for Patriotic Film Stirs Controversy in Latvia
RIGA: Latvia’s National Film Center (www.nfc.lv) has expressed its concern over a special grant from the Latvian Parliament for a historical film, made by bypassing the project competition established in…
Georgians in Bratislava
BRATISLAVA: Georgian cinema continues to reach beyond its borders with the first ever Days of Georgian Cinema, wrapping today in Bratislava after four days of screening seven Georgian films in…
Stefan Kitanov receives Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Award
PARIS: Sofia Film Festival helmer and Bulgarian producer, distributor and exhibitor Stefan Kitanov has been awarded this year’s Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Kitanov runs the Dom na…
FNE at Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month print version
FNE at Europa Cinemas: FNE offers you its Cinema of the Month print version, published in honour of the Europa Cinemas conference which kicks of in Paris today, 23 November…
Anna Karenina shooting in Lithuania
VILNIUS: Canadian director Christian Duguay is shooting the TV film Anna Karenina in Vilnius and surrounding locations. Principal photography started 25 October 2012 and will finish on 15 December.
PRODUCTION: Hirte in Postproduction with In the Name of the Mayor
BUCHAREST: Romanian born Paris-based director Anca Hirte is in postproduction with a bittersweet observational documentary In the Name of the Mayor.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Lenin?!
COTTBUS: A Russian outpost in northern Kyrgyzstan is the setting for a U.K. produced black comedy about three punks who, unwittingly steal a statue of a Russian icon, Lenin?!
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Motherland
COTTBUS: Turkish writer/director Senem Tüzen will make her feature film debut with Motherland, a struggle between a traditionalist mother and daughter, who moves to the city.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: A Good Wife
COTTBUS: Serbian star Mirjana Karanovic (When Father Was Away on Business, Grbavica) will make her writing and directing debut with a post-Yugoslav war film A Good Wife.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Docs Awarded as Sarajevo Fest
Films from Southeastern Europe were on view at the Human Rights film festival in Sarajevo.
FNE AVP Live ! Elena Romanova head of the International Department of the Russian Cinema Fund
FNE asked Romanova how EU producers can coproduce successfully with Russia, during the Red Square Screenings in Moscow. See the full interview on FNE TV.
Vanishing Waves Shores up Foreign Sales
VILNIUS: Lithuanian film director Kristina Buožytė‘s third film Vanishing Waves (Aurora), produced by Ieva Norviliene through her company Tremora (www.tremora.com) has been sold to the US, Australia, South Korea, Sweden,…
FESTIVALS: Scanorama 2012 winners
VILNIUS: Estonian director Ivan Pavljutskov won the Best Baltic Short prize for his film White Square as the Scanorama Film Festival (8-18 November 2012, www.scanorama.lt/en) wrapped up its 10 days…
Bulgarian TV7 Changes Ownership
SOFIA: The London-based Alegro Capital (www.alegrocapital.com) corporate finance advisory company became the new owner of TV7 (www.tv7.bg), along with family channel BBT (www.bbt.tv) and children’s channel Super7 (www.super7.bg).
FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Freedom or Death
COTTBUS: Following the success of Punk’s Not Dead which won the East of the West award at the 2011 Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com), Macedonian director Vladimir Blazevski and Punk Film…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: The Mute
COTTBUS: Polish director Bartek Konopka, whose imaginative and clever 2009 documentary Rabbit a la Berlin received an Oscar nomination, presented his new project The Mute at the 2012 edition of…
FNE Exclusive: Dr Rudolf Scholten, Austrian Film Institute
Dr. Rudolf Scholten is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Film Institute Austria (www.filminstitut.at) and member of the Board of Executive Directors of Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG.
Domestic Films Conquer Dynamic Finnish Market
HELSINKI: Finnish film admissions are on track to equal or surpass the 2010 record, with 2.05 m admissions to date, a 30 percent share of the 2012 market.
Malta Lines up 2013 Foreign Films
MALTA: The Malta Film Fund (www.mfc.com.mt) distributed 239,000 EUR for domestic production and it was announced that three films are scheduled to shoot in Malta in 2013.
PRODUCTION: To Paris, with the ID in Preproduction
BUCHAREST: Şerban Marinescu is in preproduction with To Paris, with the ID, a contemporary satire about the hopes of people who thought the fall of communism would be followed by…
