Turkey Sets TV Sales Record
The sale of Turkish TV shows to foreign buyers is expecte to break the $60 million mark in 2011. Bulgaria and Greece are the two countries where Turkish TV programmes…
PRODUCTION: Hajdu in Production with The Gambler
BUDAPEST: Hungarian director and writer Szabolcs Hajdu in in mid-production with The Gambler, the follow-up to his 2010 film Bibliotheque Pascal, Hungary's candidate for the foreign language Oscar in 2011.
PRODUCTION: Faith, Love and Whiskey in Postproduction
SOFIA: Bulgarian-born director/writer Kristina Nikolova is in postproduction with her first full-length feature film, Faith, Love and Whiskey with an completion date of January 2012.
PRODUCTION: Castel Film’s Paunescu Developing First Feature
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Vlad Paunescu, the owner and CEO of Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro), is developing Regina directului /Live Queen, his first feature film as a director. Live Queen won a production…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Pitch.Doc Presents Projects from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia
Taking place December 8 - 10, 2011, during the Tbilisi Film Festival, Pitch.Doc will for the third time provide funding opportunities for several creative documentary projects from the region of…
Poland, Romania Win Shooting Stars Spots
Polish actor: Jakub Gierszał (Suicide Room) and Romanian actress Ana Ularu (Outbound) are among the ten young talents chosen as the 2012 Shooting Stars (www.shooting-stars.eu), sponsored by European Film Promotion.…
PRODUCTION: The Last Black Sea Pirates in Postproduction
SOFIA: The Bulgarian production company Agitprop (www.agitprop.bg) is in the final postproduction on The Last Black Sea Pirates and Sir Norman Foster, a debut full-length documentary directed and written by…
Czech Culture Minister Resigns
PRAGUE: Jiri Besser, the Czech Minister of Culture, resigned from office on 8 December 2012. The prime minister accepted his resignation.
Essential Killing Named to France's Top Ten
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's film Essential Killing has been named one of the ten best films of 2011 by the French "Cahiers du Cinema" critics.
FESTIVALS: Cyprus Film Days Call for Entries
{mosimage}The 10th Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival (20-29 April 2012, www.cyprusfilmdays.com) is accepting entries through 3 February 2012 for its international competition programme, "Glocal Images."The festival is organized by…
Public TV Funding under Discussion in Poland
WARSAW: The discussion on the funding of public broadcasting in Poland has resulted in two draft amendments to the law on TV and radio licenses.
Latvian TV's Requests Cable Fee
RIGA: Commercial Latvian TV stations LNT and TV3 are asking cable TV operators to pay for there broadcasts of the commercials stations. Currently cable companies are able to broadcast the…
PRODUCTION: Four Suns in Postproduction
PRAGUE: Czech director and screenwriter Bohdan Slama is in the final stages of postproduction with the drama Four Suns, which is expected to be completed in early 2012 for a…
FESTIVALS: Watch Docs Screens 19 Competition Titles
WARSAW: Nineteen documentary films will compete for the main prize of the 11th edition of Watch Docs IFF (8-18 December 2011, watchdocs.pl), with a focus on the topic of human…
New Horizons Acquires Seven Films
WARSAW: Poland's New Horizons Association (www.nowehoryzonty.pl), the organizer of the New Horizons IFF and distributor of art house films, announced that it has picked up seven new titles, including several…
PRODUCTION: TV Series Galeria in Production for TVP
WARSAW: ATM Grupa has just begun production on Galeria, a TV series that will premiere on Polish public broadcaster TVP1 in January 2012.
Tbilisi IFF Opens with Faust
(TBILISI) The 12th Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) opened on 6 December with a screening of Faust directed by Alexander Sokurov. The festival runs through 11 December.
Finnish Films Surpass 1.1 Million Admissions
Domestic films have taken 17% of the market share in Finnish cinemas, according to data released by Finnish distributors. As of the end of November 2011, admissions to Finnish films…
Conference Ponders Future of Arthouse Cinemas
The international conference on film exhibition in Europe winds to a close in Paris on 7 December with a panel discussion on how European arthouse cinemas are preparing for the…
Romania 2011 Country Profile
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: The Romanian domestic film industry remained steady in 2011, while coproductions and foreign films were on the rise. The foreign interest in the Romanian films continues and national films…
