DOK.Incubator Applications Open

BRATISLAVA: The second session of the postproduction workshop DOK.Incubator (docincubator.net) is accepting observer and consultation applications from Slovak, Czech and Polish film professionals and Slovak film students for the Final…
17-08-2012

Disney Ends Polish Distribution Agreement

WARSAW: The Walt Disney Company Poland (www.disney.pl) will end its distribution agreement with Forum Film Poland (www.forumfilm.pl) as of 1 October 2012.
17-08-2012

Stoessel to Head Bulgarian TV Group

SOFIA: Didier Stoessel has been appointed CEO of Bulgaria's Nova Broadcasting Group (nova.bg).
17-08-2012

FNE AVP Live! : CEE Culture Ministers Seek New Funding Sources for Film

EDINBURGH: Representatives from the Ministries of Culture of six of the newest EU and CEE countries have said there is a need to support coproductions and to find new sources…
16-08-2012

WATCH THE BEST OF WAJDA SCHOOL ONLINE

Nine documentaries developed in Wajda School and produced by Wajda Studio are available on Doc Alliance’s website for free from August 6th till August 13th.
16-08-2012

Works in Progress Set for Red Square Screenings

MOSCOW: More than 20 films in production and post-production from Belarus, Bulgaria, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Croatia will be presented to international film…
16-08-2012

PRODUCTION: The Down’s Detective to begin Shooting in the Czech Republic

PRAGUE: Norwegian director Bard Breien (The Art of Negative Thinking) will begin the shooting The Down’s Detective, a Norwegian-Czech-Danish-German coproduction, on 29 August 2012 in the Czech Republic. The film…
15-08-2012

PRODUCTION: Wasilewski Shooting Floating Skyscrapers

WARSAW: After a promising start in Gdynia, the young Polish filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski is in production with his second feature film,Floating Skyscrapers.
15-08-2012

PRODUCTION: The Woman with the Black Necktie in Preparation

BUCHAREST: Şerban Marinescu is in preproduction with The Woman with the Black Necktie, a comedy set to be shot in Greece and Romania in autumn. Negotiations with Greek coproducer Metavision…
15-08-2012

TVP to Launch New Channels

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP, www.tv.pl), plans to create two new thematic channels in 2012 and 2013. Juliusz Braun, the President of TVP, announced the planned launch of…
14-08-2012

Czech Tax Rebate Round Opens

PRAGUE: The Czech Ministry of Culture (www.mkcr.cz) is accepting applications for the fall round of tax rebates.
14-08-2012

Bollywood Film Shoots in Krakow

KRAKOW: The Krakow Film Commission (www.film-commission.pl) is supporting its second Indian film in two years, The Rhythm.
14-08-2012

Romanian Public TV to Shut Down Two Channels

BUCHAREST: The Administration Council of TVR (www.tvr.ro) will cease broadcasting TVR Cultural and TVR Info in an attempt to recover its 133 m EUR debt. TVR3 will continue, but without…
13-08-2012

TVN Revenues Drop

WARSAW: Polish commercial broadcaster TVN (www.tvn.pl) reported declining revenues in the second quarter, with projections for sustained decline for the remainder of 2012.
13-08-2012

Film New Europe-Step In-Locarno 2012: Summing Up

LOCARNO: Focusing on the challenges surrounding the distribution of European Arthouse films in Eastern and Central Europe, the first edition of the Step In Initiative of the Festival del film…
13-08-2012

Czech Grants for 2012

PRAGUE: The Czech State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinema has selected 63 films to receive production and development grants in 2012. They include a number of high…
13-08-2012

PRODUCTION: Juraj Nvota Preps Hostage

BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Juraj Nvota is in preproduction for a winter 2012 shoot of his film Hostage, which was originally scheduled to go into production in spring.
10-08-2012

PRODUCTION: Night Falls in India in Production

BUCHAREST: Spanish director Chema Rodriguez has completed the first 10 days of filming on his road-movie, Night Falls in India, in Romania, before moving to Turkey and Spain.
10-08-2012

FNE IDF DocBloc: The New Silk Way

TALLINN: Estonia and Russia are coproducing a Russian-language documentary The New Silk Way directed by Evdokiya Moskvina.
10-08-2012

PRODUCTION: I'm an Old Communist Hag in Production

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Stere Gulea teams up with DOP Vivi Drăgan Vasile (Occident) and actress Luminiţa Gheorghiu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) for the first time since collaborating on the Romanian…
09-08-2012