New CEO for Bulgaria’s Nova TV

SOFIA: Svetlana Vassileva has been appointed CEO of Modern Times Group's Bulgarian station, Nova TV. The appointment was announced on 19 October 2010.
19-10-2010

TVN signs deal with Polish Telecom

WARSAW: Polish national commercial channel TVN (www.tvn.pl) has signed an 10-year agreement with Polish telecom operator Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) (www.tp.pl). TP will purchase content from TVN, while TP's broadband services…
18-10-2010

Czech Elsa nominations announced

PRAGUE: The nominations Czech Elsa awards for best TV shows were announced 18 October 2010.
18-10-2010

PRODUCTION: Flying Lessons starts shooting

BUCHAREST: The second feature of Moldavian filmmaker Igor Cobileanski, Flying Lessons/La limita de jos a cerului began filming 17 October 2010. The film is based on a script written by…
18-10-2010

PRODUCTION: István Szabó shooting The Door

BUDAPEST: Oscar-winning Hungarian director István Szabó is mid-way through shooting a film based on the best-selling novel by Hungarian writer Magda Szabó, The Door with Academy Award winner Helen Mirren…
18-10-2010

Berlinale's Dieter Kosslick makes first official visit to Bulgaria

SOFIA: Yet another sign of the Bulgarian film industry's recent rise to prominence, Berlinale programmer Dieter Kosslick completed his first trip to Bulgaria to speak with Bulgarian filmmakers.
17-10-2010

FNE Focus: Georgian Call for Financing Foreign Coproductions

TBILISI: Georgia is opening its doors to European producers with its latest call from the Georgian National Film Center for funding of Georgian foreign coproductions.
17-10-2010

SPI Announces New Hungarian TV Channels

SPI International (www.spi.pl) will launch two new movie channels in Hungary, building on the Film Box label. FilmBox and FilmBox Plus will air 24/7.
17-10-2010

EAVE closes 2010 with Belgrade workshop

The third and final 2010 EAVE (www.eave.org) training session for European producers is taking place 18-25 in Belgrade. All 50 participants, nearly one-third of them from CEE territories, will have…
17-10-2010

FESTIVALS: Eye over Prague, Incendies win Warsaw Fest

Czech director Olga Špátová won the Best Documentary award for Eye over Prague, and the French-Canadian film Incendies won the Best Film prize at the 26th Warsaw Film Festival's closing…
17-10-2010

Antalya Golden Orange IFF Winners

ANTALYA: The 47th annual Golden Orange Film Festival in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya ended on a high note with Majority directed by newcomer Seren Yuce taking the prize for…
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Poland’s Alvernia Coproduces Heckerling Film

WARSAW: Alvernia Production and Alvernia Studios (www.alverniastudios.com), based in Krakow, are teaming up as coproducers on US indie feature Vamps directed by Amy Heckerling. The investment is one of the…
14-10-2010

NonStop Picks up Czech Little Knights' Tale

PRAGUE: Sweden's world sales company NonStop (www.nonstopsales.net) has picked up the Czech family film Little Knights' Tale from hit teen film director Karel Janak and production company Three Brothers (www.historicalmovie.com).
14-10-2010

Raindance launches first CEE partnership in Hungary

BUDAPEST: London-based Raindance has launched its first partnership in CEE, Raindance Budapest (budapest.raindance.org), spearheaded by Daniel Kresmery. The independent filmmaker's training program has started off with an initial series of…
14-10-2010

Hribar appointed to Croatian AV Center post

ZAGREB: Hrvoje Hribar has been named Acting Manager of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (www.havc.hr). The appointment was made by the Board of Governors of the Centre.
14-10-2010

PRODUCTION: Gödrös in Preproduction with The Beginning of Things

BUDAPEST: Hungarian director Frigyes Gödrös is in preproduction with a Hungarian-Cuban coproduction based on Cuban magical realist writer Alejo Carpentier's novella Viaje a la Semilla (The Beginning of Things).
13-10-2010

PRODUCTION: Book Smugglers in Postproduction

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian-Irish co-production Book Smugglers (Smuigléirí Leabhar, Knygnešiai), a creative documentary bydirector Jeremiah Cullinane, is now in postproduction. The film will be completed in both 72 and 52 minute…
13-10-2010

New Romanian TV Channels Receive Licenses

The National Audiovisual Council of Romania approved licenses for two TV stations at its 12 October 2010 meeting.
13-10-2010

FESTIVALS: Eastern Plays wins Bulgaria's Golden Rose

Bulgaria's international success Eastern Plays (www.easternplays.com) continued its winning streak, taking the Golden Rose of the 29th Varna National Film Festival. Headed by director Ivan Nitchev, the feature film jury…
12-10-2010

Connecting Cottbus Announces Pitching Selections

Connecting Cottbus, or CoCo as the influential pitching forum for East European films is affectionately known, has announced 15 projects selected for the 4-5 November 2010 session. They include projects…
12-10-2010