MTG Acquires Latvia’s LNT
WARSAW: The Swedish-based broadcasting company Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se) signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Latvian commercial TV operator AS Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija (LNT, www.lnt.lv) in Latvia for…
Record 34 Domestic Films Released in Finland
HELSINKI: A record 34 local films were released in Finland in 2011, taking 17% of the box office share, or 1.2 million admissions.
Polish title Sponsoring headed for Berlinale
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish title Sponsoring (Elles) directed by Malgorzata Szumowska will be the opening film of the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2012.
FNE Exclusive: Q & A with Hrvoje Hribar
1. What was the most important development in the your country's film industry over the past year? Amendments to the 2007 Film Act, which provided legal and institutional framework for…
Pay TV Subscriptions Rise in Hungary
BUDAPEST: Official data shows that pay TV subscribers reached 3.2 million in Hungary by the end of November 2011.
Match Factory Picks up Fliegauf’s Just the Wind
{mosimage}BUDAPEST: German sales agent The Match Factory (www.the-match-factory.com ) announced its acquisition of Just the Wind by Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf. The films, about a family of Roma (gypsies) living…
PRODUCTION: Tomorrow Will Be Better in Postproduction
PRAGUE: Czech director Martin Privatsky is in postproduction with Tomorrow Will Be Better, a documentary about Libor Podmol, a struggling and fatherless Czech village boy who became the 2010 world…
PRODUCTION: The Cernosaurs in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Radu Dinulescu is in post-production with The Cernosaurs, a 70 minute 2D animation film produced by the Romanian company Artis Film (www.artisfilm.ro ) with the support of the National…
Poland’s NEFS Acquires First Feature
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish boutique sales agent New Europe Film Sales (www.neweuropefilmsales.com ) has acquired its first feature film, Now, Forager, a Polish-US coproduction debut from Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin.
BTI Acquires Chello Zone EE
Swedish-owned Broadcast Text International announced the acquisition of Chello Zone's (www.chellozone.com) oprerational studio business in Central Europe, including dubbing studios in Poland and Romania.
Lattelecom TV Leads in Baltic TV Subscribers
RIGA: Latvia's Lattelecom (www.lattelecom.lv ) ended 2011 as the largest pay-TV operator in the Baltics, with 230,000 pay-TV subscribers.
Estonian Film Centennial Begins in Tartu
{mosimage}TALLINN: The 100th anniversary of Estonian film launched on 6 January in Tartu, the birthplace of the first national film director Johannes Paasuke whose first documentary was the now-lost Utotchkin…
Czech director Sverak looks to Africa
{mosimage}PRAGUE : Czech director Jan Sverak (www.sverak.cz ) is preparing a new project based on the Saul Bellows book Henderson the Rain King together with his long time production partner…
Theme Channels Gain Polish Viewers
WARSAW: Poland’s theme channels continued to gain viewers in 2011, rising by 10% in the target 16-49 age group, to a 33% share.
CEE Films Receive Eurimages Funding
{mosimage}STRASBOURG: Films from Romania, Hungary, Finland, Austria, and the Czech Republic are among the 18 European coproductions that have been selected for the latest round of Eurimages funding. Cristian Mungiu's…
New World Wins Estonian Journalists Prize
{mosimage}TALLINN: A documentary film, The New World (Uus Maailm) directed by Jaan Tootsen, has won the best film of 2011 prize from the Estonian Association of Film Journalists. Estonian public…
British Leonardo Project delegates pioneer new training programme
{mosimage}WARSAW: A delegation of British graduates became the first ever to participate in an innovative new pilot project launched in Warsaw with funding from the European Union Leonardo Project. The…
The Hungarian film industry pins hopes on the end of 2011 releases
{mosimage}BUDAPEST: The Hungarian film industry is pinning its hopes for the 2011 box office on two December releases in a year that saw the market share for domestically produced films…
FNE country focus Croatia: 2011
The year 2011 was a watershed for the Croatian film industry with the adoption of new legislation that introduced financial incentives for film production in the form of a 20%…
First round of scripts disappoints new Hungarian National Film Fund
BUDAPEST: The scripts submitted to the new Hungarian National Film Fund (MNF, www.filmalap.hu) in its first round have been described as “disappointing” by MNF chief Agnes Havas and Hungary’s Film…
