Lithuanian film receives first EURIMAGES grant
European Cinema Support fund EURIMAGES has awarded a €160,000 grant to the Lithuanian film project Low Lights (director Ignas Miskinis, producer Ieva Norviliene), the first EURIMAGES grant ever given to…
Holland film signs new co-producers
Polish public television TVP and Polish Telecommunications (TP) will co-produce the Agnieszka Holland film Christine -War My Love!
Works in Progress draws overflow crowd
Robust industry interest boosted attendance at the Karlovy Vary film festival (KVIFF.com) East of the West Works in Progress 2008 presentations. Producers from 26 films showed clips to a standing…
Advertising revenue growth prompts Comedy Central launch in Hungary
Entertainment channel Comedy Central (www.comedycentral.com), part of the Viacom media conglomerate (www.viacom.com) is expanding its reach in Eastern Europe with a launch in Hungary.
Poland pushes hits and works in progress at Karlovy Vary
The programme of this year's edition of the Karlovy Vary IFF festival lists four Polish titles, but that is not the only way that Poland will be represented at the…
First Hungarian production shooting at Korda Studios
The €2.5 million (HUF588 million) romantic comedy, Chameleon, marks the arrival of Hungarian filmmaking to the €91M Korda Studios' premises (www.kordafilmstudio.hu).
Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Muzika
Muzika (Music), actor-director Juraj Nvota's Slovak/German film about the joys and travails of musicians and music lovers, will be screened on July 7 and 8 in competition at the Karlovy…
Beauty in Trouble expands US release
Beauty in Trouble, from director/writer team of Jan Hrebejek and Petr Jarchovsky, has gone into its third week of screenings in the U.S.
Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Mao Tse Tung
A rare Albanian entry joins the East of the West competition line-up: Besnik Bisha's ironic take on the era of totalitarian leader Enver Hoxha, Mao Tse Tung. Following years of…
Kids Channel Launches in Bulgaria
HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia's pre-school channel JimJam will launch in Bulgaria in July. The channel is first launched internationally seven months ago, and has a Central and East European feed.
Lithuanian digital TV service expands
Lithuanian telecommunications company TEO announced expansion of its digital TV service Gala to reach 95% of the country's population. TEO expects to reach all households by the end of 2008.
MTV Malta Special will become annual event
The Times of Malta reported that the Isle of MTV Malta Special is to become an annual event. According to the report, MTV executives met with the Prime Minister of…
Hungarian buyers and sellers on the way to Karlovy Vary
Hungarian films and distributors will be out in force at this year's Karlovy Vary film festival, running July 4-12, with Magyar Filmunio, the promotion body of Hungarian film, leading the…
Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition I Was Here
The second feature by Estonian director Rene Vilbre, I Was Here is continuing the recent wave of Estonian cinema on the international arena with the world premiere in Karlovy Vary's…
Central Europeans Rediscover Moscow
Central European filmmakers have rediscovered Russia with a major focus on central European film at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival (www.moscowfilmfestival.ru), which ran June 19-28.
CME purchases increased stake in Studio 1+1
Central European Media Enterprises (CME), which operates 16 TV channels in 6 countries in Central and Eastern Europe reaching 90 million people, announced that it had completed the purchase of…
TV3 CEO resigns
C21 Media reported that Ramunas Saucikovas, CEO of Lithuanian station TV3, will leave at the end of July. Saucikovas has served in the position for eight years. TV3 is owned…
Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition Of Parents and Children
Multi-awarded Czech director Vladimír Michalek creates a bitter-sweet comedy from a seemingly banal situation, where father and son go on a walk together through the magical urban landscape of Prague.
Kinemastik short film fest opens in Malta
The 4th International Kinemastik Short Film Festival opened in Malta on June 28 and runs through July 12. This year's festival opened with an evening of 13 short films from…
Karlovy Vary film festival East of the West competition The Class
The beginning of the €1 million budgeted (HUF250 million) Hungarian-German movie, The Class (Tablo) dates back to 1998, when the Hungarian-born, formerly New York-based Gabor Dettre first applied to the…
