FNE - IDF DocBloc: Ex-Oriente Selects 13 Workshop Projects
{mosimage}PRAGUE: Thirteen films representing twelve countries will participate in the first session of the Ex-Oriente documentary workshop, beginning on 18 June 2012.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Ten Films Compete for Koutecky Award
{mosimage}PRAGUE: Ten Czech documentary films have been selected to compete for the 2012 Pavel Koutecky Award, named for the respected Czech documentary filmmaker who died in 2006 while working on…
FESTIVALS: Nine Films at Krakow’s Docs to go!
{mosimage}KRAKOW: The Polish Film Institute (www.pisf.pl) and the Krakow Film Festival (www.kff.com.pl) will present nine upcoming Polish documentary films at Docs to go!, taking place at the festival on 30…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: ScriptTeast Award Winners Announced in Cannes
{mosimage}CANNES: Latvian scriptwriter Martins Slisans won the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern and Central European Script of this year's edition. The award includes a 10 000 EUR…
Nine Projects Participate in EKRAN 2012
{mosimage}WARSAW: The Wajda School and Wajda Studio (www.wajdaschool.pl) EKRAN preproduction training project opened its first 2012 session, taking place through 24 May, with nine participating production teams representing Poland, Austria,…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Competition: The Angel’s Share
CANNES: The 75-year-old British director Ken Loach has been in competition in Cannes nine times and his films never fail to draw appreciation from Cannes critics and audiences. While he…
FNE Exclusive: Q&A with Andy Vajna, Hungarian Film Commissioner
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: FNE met up on the terrace of Carlton for an exclusive session with Hungarian Film Commissioner Andy Vajna together with Agnes Havas head of the…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Party and Screen Alert Wednesday and Thursday 23 - 24 May
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FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Party and Screen Alert Wednesday and Thursday
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FESTIVALS: Zlin to Award Minac, Nemec
{mosimage}ZLIN: The 52nd IFF for Children and Youth (www.zlinfest.cz), running 27 May - 3 June 2012 in the Czech city of Zlin, will present the festival's Grand Prix to Slovak…
Mungiu's Beyond the Hills Sold in 20 Territories
{mosimage}CANNES: Christian Mungiu's Cannes competition film Beyond the Hills/După dealuri has been sold to more than 20 territories including Germany, France, Spain, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Australia, Latin American territories and…
FNE at Cannes IFF: 2012: Baltic Bridge East by West Producers’ Workshop Announces Project Slate
{mosimage}CANNES: The Baltic Bridge East by West (B'EST), a new initiative designed for feature film projects from the European Union and the CIS countries and Georgia, is announcing its first…
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Bulgarian Cinema in Cannes
CANNES: Bulgarian film is represented in Cannes this year with the doc Sofia's Last Ambulance screening in the Critic's Week as well as four films screening in the market and…
Locarno FF’s Industry Office launches STEP IN Focus on Eastern and Central Europe
{mosimage}CANNES: The Industry office of the Festival del film Locarno is announcing the launch of STEP IN, a new industry initiative in Cannes. The initiative will focus in 2012 on…
PRODUCTION: Documentary Comeback in Postproduction
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Miro Remo is in postproduction with the documentary Comeback, a social study of the world of prisoners following the life of two repeat offenders as they make…
Bulgaria Reports Film Production Decrease
SOFIA: The 2011 report from Bulgaria's National Statistics Institute showed that national film production was down compared with 2010, but cinema attendance rose by 12%.
FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: ScriptTeast projects in Cannes
Throughout Cannes FNE will be highlighting the new projects being developed by scriptwriters working with ScripTeast. ScripTeast (www.scriptesat.pl) is supported by the MEDIA programme of the EU and the Polish…
