PRODUCTION: Stanko in Preproduction
{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Rasto Boros is preparing to shoot the feature film Stanko in Slovakia, Austria and Italy in summer-fall 2012. On the background of the topic of human trafficking, this road…
Lauder, Time Warner Complete Purchase of CME Stock
{mosimage}Central European Media Enterprise (CME, www.cetv-net.com) announced it has completed the sale of 9.9 million shares of its Class A stock to Time Warner and another 2 million shares to…
FESTIVALS: Pula Announces National Competition
{mosimage}PULA: Eight films have been confirmed for the national programme at the 59th Pula Film Festival (www.pulafilmfestival.hr), which takes place during the second week of the festival running from 14-28…
FESTIVALS: Hungarian Film Withdraws from Karlovy Vary
{mosimage}PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com) announced that the Hungarian German coproduction Dear Betrayed Friends (Draga besugott barataim) has been withdrawn from the East of the West competition. According to…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Old Souls’s Day
BRATISLAVA: As part of the cycle CineStories/ Filmoviedky on Slovak Television (www.stv.sk), Stanislav Párnický's Dusicky seniorov/Old Souls's Day follows the destinies of a community living in a retirement home following…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech-Italian Terezin Film Goes into Production
PRAGUE: Wolf, a Czech/Italian documentary coproduction with a Holocaust theme will be filmed over the summer. Italian producer Marta Donzelli (Vivo Film) working with Czech producer Radim Procházka (Produkce Radim…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Fair Play
BRATISLAVA: Fair Play is a 52 minute documentary portrait by director/scriptwriter Arnold Kojnok of the important Slovak artist Julius Koller. It screens in the Slovak Season section of Art Film…
Poland, Hungary Pitching at Cartoon Forum
Three animated cartoon series from Central Europe, including two from Poland and one from Hungary, have been selected to pitch at Cartoon Forum, taking place 11-14 September 2012 in Toulouse,…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Bells of Happiness
BRATISLAVA: At the heart of Bells of Happiness, a 70 minute documentary directed by Jana Bucka and Marek Sulik, are Mariena and Roman, two Roma cousins connected by their admiration…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Tigers in the City
BRATISLAVA: Tigers in the City, the 90 minute debut of Juraj Krasnohorsky, follows three friends in their late 20's as they try to find their soul mates against the menacing…
Parliament Rejects Romanian TV Annual Report
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Parlament (www.parlament.ro) rejected the 2011 annual report of Romanian public television (www.tvr.ro) for 2011 on 12 June 2012, following a veto vote by the two Commissions for…
FNE at Art Film Fest: Dancing on Broken Glass
BRATISLAVA: Drawing from folkdancing's musical tradition, Marek Ťapak's film Dancing on Broken Glass (screening in the Slovak Season section at Art Film Festival 16-23 June 2012, www.artfilmfest.sk) is based on…
FESTIVALS: Record Submissions for Jameson CineFest
MISKOLC: Hungary's Jameson CineFest (www.cinefest.hu) announced it received a record number of entries for the 9th edition, 14-23 September 2012.
Finnish Attendance Continues to Climb
HELSINKI: Cinema attendance is up 14 percent over 2011 admissions, at 3.5 million, with domestic films attracting 1.3 million viewers, or 37 percent of all tickets sold.
FESTIVALS: Twelve Films Compete at Art Film Festival
Twelve films representing 17 countries will compete for the Blue Angel in the the International Competition of Feature Films of the 20th Art Film Fest, running from 16 to 23…
Czech TV Plans Kids Channel
PRAGUE: Public broadcaster Czech TV is preparing to launch CT3, a channel broadcasting childrens programming, by the end of 2012. A minimum of eight million euros annually is earmarked for…
PRODUCTION: Die Hard 5 Shooting in Hungary
BUDAPEST: The fifth installment of Die Hard directed by John Moore is currently shooting in Budapest through August 2012.
GRANTS: Finland Funds Six Films
HELSINKI: The Finnish Film Foundation (www.ses.fi) awarded over 1.6 million euros in funding for six feature films in the May grants round, and an additional 675,000 euros funding for one…
DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION: Vojtek Filming Children
BRATISLAVA: Jaroslav Vojtek (The Border) started shooting his first feature in May 2012. If in his documentary Unwanted Children/ Nechcené deti (2001) he was dealing with children from foster homes,…
FNE at TIFF: Joachim Trier’s Oslo, August 31st Wins Transylvania Trophy
CLUJ-NAPOCA: The 11th Transylvania IFF (www.tiff.ro) gave its top award (the Transylvania Trophy) to the Norwegian film Oslo, August 31st as well as the Best Script award to co-writers Eskil…
