EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Maya Vitkova
SOFIA: Maya Vitkova will represent Bulgaria at European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move in Cannes.
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Like Never Before Captivates Expanded Festival
PLZEN: A year after it received a special pre-premiere screening at the 2013 Finale Festival of Czech films, Zdnek Tyc’s deathbed drama Like Never Before made a return bow in…
Bulgarian Film Academy Nominates FNE Correspondent for Critics Award
SOFIA: Pavlina Jeleva, Bulgarian correspondent for Film New Europe, has been nominated by the Bulgarian Film Academy for the annual Best Critic award.
Gambler Wins at Lithuanian Film Awards
VILNIUS: Ignas Jonynas won the best director and best film awards for the Lithuanian/Latvian coproduction The Gambler (Lošėjas) at the seventh Lithuanian Film and TV Silver Crane Awards held on…
Triple Day and Date Premiere for Sacro Gra
PRAGUE: The Czech and Slovak Republics are sharing an online, TV, and cinema simultaneous release of film Sacro GRA, the first ever documentary winner of Venice Film Festival, today (5…
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Tomas Hruby
PRAGUE: Czech producer Tomáš Hrubý heads to Cannes to participate in European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move.
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Czech Fest Embraces Slovaks
PLZEN: After two years of Slovak directors winning the best film prize at the Czech national film festival (both for Czech-Slovak coproductions that were set in Slovak villages), it was…
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Fine, Thanks
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Matyas Prikler's neo-realistic debut drama feature Fine, Thanks investigates the way the financial crisis affects the intimate lives of the people, revealing a severe picture of their…
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Love Me or Leave Me
PLZEN: Slovak director Mariana Cengel Solcanska joins the ranks of Slovakia’s rising young female helmers with her second feature Love Me or Leave Me (Miluj ma alebo odid) screening in…
PRODUCTION: Nicolae Mărgineanu in Postproduction with Poarta Alba
BUCHAREST: Nicolae Mărgineanu continues the investigation of the communist era with Poarta Albă, a feature about the concentration camp of Poarta Albă and the construction of the Danube-Black Sea channel.
UCIN Announces Nominations for Romanian Awards
BUCHAREST: A total of 73 films applied for the nominations of the Romanian Filmmakers Union 2013 annual awards with the ceremony taking place on 5 May 2014.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Crowdfunded Polish Doc Coming to Czech Republic
Joanna, the first crowdfunded Polish documentary, will receive a cinema screening in Prague in May.
FNE at Finale Plzen 2014: Czech Industry Gathers in Plzen
PLZEN: Czech and international industry representatives filled the annual presentation of upcoming Czech films organized for the 11th time at the Finale Plzen film festival, taking place through 3 May…
Latvia Launches Debut Film Funding
RIGA: The Latvian Film Centre has initiated a new tender to support young filmmakers' debut projects.
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Matyas Prikler
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia will be represented by the very dry Mátyás Prikler as one of European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move.
PRODUCTION: The Wellness Process in Development
BUCHAREST: Marius Iacob’s documentary The Wellness Process, recently awarded with Robert Bosch Stiftung Prize for International Cooperation between Germany and Eastern Europe at goEast Wiesbaden, is set to start shooting…
FESTIVALS: Transilvania IFF Announces Line-up
BUCHAREST: Twelve films will compete for the Transilvania Trophy at the Transilvania IFF between 30 May and 8 June 2014, among them features from Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland and Romania.
FESTIVALS Lech Walesa to Attend KVIFF
PRAGUE: The Karlovy Vary IFF announced its first major guest for the 49th edition of the festival, 4-12 July 2014: Nobel Prize winner and former Polish president Lech Walesa who…
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Eszter Gyárfás
BUDAPEST: Hungarian producer Eszter Gyárfás will bring Kornel Mundruczó's next feature Make A Wish to European Film Promotion’s 2014 edition of Producers on the Move at Cannes
EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Tinatin Kajrishvili
TBILISI: Georgian New Wave producer Tinatin Kajrishvili comes to European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move networking platform with ten film projects to her credit, including the upcoming One Way…