The Polish Film Institute: first production, then promotion
"The Warsaw International Film Festival is one of our priorities when it comes to film-related events," says Jacek Fuksiewicz, Deputy Director for Film Production at the Polish Film Institute.
Farewell Hemingway, hello Bulgaria
Svetoslav Ovtcharov's A Farewell to Hemingway is the latest piece from Bulgaria, which in the last five years has pulled itself out of cinematic oblivio.
TVP business buzzes at MIPCOM
Public broadcaster Polish Television (TVP) is doing brisk business at MIPCOM, running October 13-17
Goat Story premieres October 16
Goat Story: The Old Prague Legends, the first Czech CGI feature animated comedy, premiered October 16 in Prague.
End of Uncertainty for Warsaw Film Festival
The 24th Warsaw International Film Festival is turning out to be a breakthrough edition in terms of the event's financing.
Treat on "Tricks”
Andrzej Jakimowski's second feature, Tricks, is the topic of CentEast's distribution panel discussion, taking place October 17 as part of the 4th CentEast Market Warsaw (October 15-19).
Ukraine reaches out to neighbors
A 65% increase in ad revenues is fueling Ukrania's production and TV growth, a panel of industry leaders told MIPCOM attendees.
December Heat burns budgets for Estonian films
The highest ever budgeted Estonian feature film, December heat by debut director Asko Kase, premieres October 17 across Estonia, while budget shortages are dampening the film's roll out and advertising…
Maciej Slesicki starts shooting his "minute trilogy"
Maciej Slesicki attempts to create a universal image of contemporary Poland in his new trilogy under the umbrella title Three Minutes.
Romanians Aim High at CentEast
In 2005, when Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu won the Un Certain Regard prize in Cannes, it was the biggest award a Romanian film had received on the…
Hebrew Waltz in Warsaw
An Israeli animated film about the surrealism of war and the marvels of memory, Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir opened the 24th Warsaw Film Festival on 10 October.
(One) Slovak Film at the Warsaw Film Festival
Out of the 153 features that will be presented in the following days of the 24th Warsaw Film Festival, there will be one film from a country not normally represented:…
Adyton racks up sales at MIPCOM
Adyton International CEO Dariusz Zawislak is counting the reasons for renting a booth at the EU Media stand at MIPCOM, running through October 17.
Slovenian Films Conquer Warsaw
Slovenia has a strong presence at this year's edition of the Warsaw film festival, running October 10-19.
Moveast awards Ukrainian debut
Moveast International Film Festival's Golden Benjamin Award went to Eva Neymann's directorial debut, At the River, produced by Ukraine's Odessa Film Studios. The film was awarded FIPRESCI Prize and FICC…
How Tricks did the trick – and what comes after
"Film from Eastern Europe are still overlooked, undervalued, badly promoted and - with noble exceptions - play only a marginal, if any, role in the international art house and television…
Turkey nominates Three Monkeys for Oscars
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's last film Three Monkeys (Uc Maymun) has been selected as Turkey's nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film category in this year's Oscars
Lithuanian TV to mortgage Vilnius TV tower
Lithuanian Radio and Television Centre LRTC http://www.lrtc.lt/index.html plans to mortgage Vilnius TV tower to fund an upgrade in services.
Lithuania scores with basketball
The Lithuanian incumbent telco TEO LT has become the first broadcaster in the Baltic Republics to offer its TV subscribers the US sports channel NBA TV.
Shooting begins on Urbanski debut
Artur Urbanski, double award winner at the 2002 Venice Tv Fest, begins shooting his first big screen feature Listening to Jo, on October 10.
