Turkish Ministry announces film grants
The Turkish Ministry of Culture has announced grants totalling over $5.5 million for 23 films.
SPI expands into Spain
SPI International signed an agreement on July 27 with the leading Spanish independent film distributor Vertice 360 to cooperate on introducing FilmBox channels on the Spanish TV market.
HBO series films in Malta
HBO Entertainment series Game of Thrones, which began principal photography on July 26, is filming in Malta as its secondary location. The series is being locally produced with assistance from…
New channels hit Romanian market
Two new music channels, Mooz Hits and Mooz Ro, have received licences from the National Audiovisual Council of Romania (www.cna.ro) and will start airing at the end of September 2010.
Bulgarian TV market drops
Bulgarian TV market fell by 8.6%, according to the latest report of the monitoring agency TNS/TV Plan and the TV advertising Top 10. CME (www.cetv-net) station bTV (www.btv.bg) registered a…
Vlado Škafar's Debut Dad premieres at Venice Film Festival
Vlado Škafar's first feature film Dad is one of the seven films picked from more than 200 entries for this year's International Film Critics' Week (www.sicvenezia.it) held as part of…
FESTIVALS: Grlic’s Just Between Us wins big at Pula
Rajko Grlic's Just Between Us won seven Golden Arenas at the 57th Pula Film Festival, held from July 10-24, 2010.
Fimfárum 3 postpones release
One of the most anticipated Czech animated movies, Fimfarum 3, has postponed its release to February 10, 2011, producer Martin Vandas of production Maurfilm company (www.maurfilm.com) announced last week. Previously,…
Surviving D-Day winds up Lithuanian shoot
British film company Dangerous films (http://www.dangerous.co.uk) and Lithuanian company Baltijos filmų paslaugos are finishing shooting of the TV film Surviving D-Day in Klaipėda, Lithuania.
FESTIVALS: Era New Horizons opens with Cannes winner
Cannes grand prix winner, Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux) by Xavier Beauvois, will make its Polish premiere as the opening film of the Era New Horizons…
Bulgarian National TV names new director
After three days of intense public hearings, the five members of the Council of Electronic Media (www.cem.bg) elected Viara Ankova as Director General of Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg). The vetting…
Eastern Plays wins Bulgarian film awards
The freshly founded Film Academy announced its first annual awards with Eastern Plays (www.easternplays.com) winning film of the year, topping the list of eleven 2009 feature films. The same film…
PRODUCTION: A Very Unsettled Summer in development
A Very Unsettled Summer, a Romanian/Swedish coproduction and the second feature of Romanian director Anca Damian (Crossing Dates), is currently in development. The script is written by the Irish writer…
French historical drama begins filming at Barrandov
After years of decline, the Czech Republic is attracting foreign filmmakers again with its new film tax incentive, approved in June by the European Union. From July through September, the…
PRODUCTION: The Phantom Father in post-production
Lucian Georgescu will finish the post-production of his first feature, The Phantom Father, in September. The editing is completed, and the German composer Johannes Malfatti has worked on the music…
FNE at Script Forum in Warsaw
The third edition of Script Forum, taking place at the Summer Film Festival in Warsaw (www.latofilmow.pl), has awarded three cash prizes. The prizes were given by the Polish Filmmakers Association…
Lietuvos Kinas sale suspended
The planned sale of real estate properties by Lithuanian distribution company Lietuvos Kinas (www.lietuvoskinas.lt) has been suspended by the Ministry of Culture.
PRODUCTION: Something Good From Life in postproduction
Romanian filmmaker Dan Piţa's Something Good from Life, his third film produced by Andrei Boncea and MediaPro Pictures (www.mediapropictures.com), is in post-production until December 2010.
Agnieszka Odorowicz re-elected as PFI Director
Agnieszka Odorowicz has been elected to a second term as Director of the Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) . Odorowicz became the first PFI Director in 2005, when the Insitiute was…
mk2 picks up Outbound
French company mk2 (www.mk2.com) will handle the international sales of the first feature made by the young Romanian director Bogdan George Apetri. Outbound (Periferic) will have its world premiere in…
