PRODUCTION: Hunting Down Small Predators in postproduction
Hunting Down Small Predators, the first feature film by director/actor Tzvetodar Markov, is in he final stages of postproduction.
Poland, Czechs take home One World awards
Poland's Pawel Łoziński was awarded Best Director for his documentary Chemo at the One World film festival held in Prague.
PRODUCTION: Outbound in postproduction
Bogdan George Apetri's first feature Outbound, written by Tudor Voican and Bogdan George Apetri based on a story by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru, will wrap postproduction in early April.
FNE at Istanbul IFF 2010: Festival Announces Competition Lineup
As of this year, the Golden Tulip Award, rewarded to a film from the "International Competition" category of the International Istanbul Film Festival will be presented in memoriam Şakir Eczacıbaşı...
FNE at Istanbul IFF 2010: EFP’s Bridges Europe – Turkey
European Film Promotion (EFP) is launching a new programme highlighting Turkish and European film, "Bridges Europe - Turkey" at the Istanbul International Film Festival.
PRODUCTION: Monies, Cons & Bones in post-production
Producer Cristian Comeagă, who is currently working with director Nae Caranfil and producer of his Asphalt Tango and Philantropy, and also the epic The Rest Is Silence, is about to…
Bulgarian daily sells national features on DVD
Bulgaria's National Film Center this month is funding production of 100,000 DVD's of 12 Bulgarian features for sale with a daily national newspaper.
Almási takes Hungary's Kossuth Prize
Tamás Almási has received Kossuth Prize for his outstanding documentary and feature films, presented on March 15 by László Sólyom, the President of Hungary.
Slovakia announces nominees for SUN film awards
Broken Promises, Foxes, and Soul at Peace have been nominated in the Best Film category of the Slovak national film awards, Sun in the Net 2010.
Vilnius fest host eight Lithuanian premieres
The 15th Vilnius International Film Festival Kino pavasaris (March18 - April 2, 2010) will host eight Lithuanian film premieres, including the debut from Marius Ivaškevičius, Our father (Tėve mūsų).
FYROM takes Sofia pitching award
The Nu Boyana Film Studios award for best pitching at the Sofia Meetings ‘Second Films Pitching' Programme was handed out to the project Kalabalak by Sasha Damjanovski (UK, Former Yugoslavian…
Police, Adjective wins the Romanian Filmmakers Union Trophy
Corneliu Porumboiu's feature Police, Adjective became the recipient of the Grand Prix of the Romanian Filmmakers Union (UCIN, www.ucin.ro).
PRODUCTION: Absolvents in the production
Slovak director Tomáš Krupa is in the production with the documentary film Absolvents, with fillming scheduled to continue into early 2011.
Russian One War wins Sofia IFF award
Vera Glagoleva's debut drama One War, treating the tragic fate of exiled Soviet mothers with children by German fathers during World War II, was awarded the Grand Prix of the…
Slovene exhibitor faced with 3D problem
Slovene exhibitor Kolosej kinematogafi has stopped screenings of James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar due to problems with the contract to rent 3D glasses.
PRODUCTION: The Legend of Flying Cyprian in postproduction
Slovak director Mariana Čengel-Solčanska is in postproduction with The Legend of Flying Cyprian, a historical drama in hoping to follow in the footsteps of Bathory and Janosik.
Planet Tušl becomes Slovenia's largest exhibitor
With the opening of its fifth multiplex in Koper on March 31, Slovenian cinema chain Planet Tuš (www.planet-tus.com) will become Slovenia's largest exhibitor.
PRODUCTION: Animated Stones wraps production in April
The animated film Stones from Slovak director Katarina Kerekesova is in the final stages of postproduction.
PRODUCTION: Morgen in postproduction
Short film Palme d'Or winner Marian Crişan (Megatron, 2008) is in postproduction with his feature debut, Morgen, the story of a Romanian whose passion for fishing brings the surprise of…
PRODUCTION: Kenyeres in preproduction with Yesterday
Hungarian director, Bálint Kenyeres, European Film Award (www.europeanfilmacademy.org) short film winner, has finished the script for his feature debut Yesterday based on Agota Kristof's novel, and the project is now…