Local films dominate box office in Turkey

ISTANBUL: Turkish films continue to dominate at the local box office with domestic productions taking seven out of the top ten slots for the first six months of 2011. The…
27-07-2011

Bulgarian Films Head to Sarajevo Film Festival

SOFIA: Bulgarian films continue their international success story with seven Bulgarian films due to participate in the 17th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival (22-30 July 2011) in the capital of…
26-07-2011

First Golden Carpathian TV and Digital Market Launched

BUCHAREST: The first edition of a new TV content market, the Golden Carpathian Market, is set for 25-28 August 2011 in Ploiesti in the Carpathian region of Romania. The event…
26-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Jean Claude Van Damme to shoot Six Bullets in Romania

BUCHAREST: Six Bullets aka The Butcher, a new actioner starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, is set to shoot in Romania in September, with MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com ) providing production services. The…
26-07-2011

Foreign productions boost Malta economy

MALTA: The 13 part TV series Sinbad the Sailor produced by UK based Impossible Pictures for SKY TV will pump over 8 m euros into the Malta economy according to…
25-07-2011

Pula Film Festival Prize Winners

PULA: The 58th Pula Film Festival awarded its main prize, the Grand Golden Arena, to Kotlovina directed by Tomislav Radic in its National Competition for Croatian film. The film also…
25-07-2011

Second edition of Odessa IFF builds bridges to Europe

ODESSA: The Grand Prix of the Odessa International Film Festival (15-23 July 2011) was awarded to the French film Tomboy directed by Celine Sciamma. The OIFF’s main prize, the Golden…
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Six Degrees in Production

WARSAW: The team behind the award-winning Rabbit a la Berlin has begun shooting the concept documentary Six Degrees, which takes a literal and exploratory look at the theory that everyone…
22-07-2011

Six Degrees in Production

WARSAW: The team behind the award-winning Rabbit a la Berlin has begun shooting the concept documentary Six Degrees, which takes a literal and exploratory look at the theory that everyone…
22-07-2011

FESTIVALS: 11th IFF New Horizons Opens

WROCLAW: The 11th New Horizons Film Festival www.nowehoryzonty.pl (21-31 July 2011) opened with Berlinale winner Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a…
21-07-2011

TVN Picks Up Minute to Win It

WARSAW: Private broadcaster TVN is working on a Polish version of the American game show Minute To Win It.
21-07-2011

UOKiK Restricts Sale of Aster Cable

WARSAW: Polish Office of Consumer and Competition Protection (UOKiK) set conditions to prevent UPC from monopolizing the Polish cable television market after taking over cable broadcaster Aster.
20-07-2011

Vajna Bails out Hungarian Producers

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian National Film Fund announced on 20 July 2011 that it has reached an agreement to purchase the claims of three banks with loans to Hungarian film producers.
20-07-2011

FESTIVALS: New Horizons Hosts Workshops

WROCLAW: The second edition of the New Horizons Studio takes place 23-26 July 2011, during the 11th New Horizons Film Festival, opening 21 July in Wroclaw.
20-07-2011

Bulgaria’s National Film Center Reopens Grants Sessions

SOFIA: The National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) will hold a grants session during the second half of 2011. Due to heavy financial restrictions the normal selection process of the film finding…
19-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Dracula Meets Stoker to Shoot in Romania

BUCHAREST: Bestselling writer Dacre Stoker, the great-grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, is preparing Dracula Meets Stoker, a docu-feature in 3D planned for release in 2012 on the occasion of the centennial…
19-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Dracula Meets Stoker to Shoot in Romania

BUCHAREST: Bestselling writer Dacre Stoker, the great-grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, is preparing Dracula Meets Stoker, a docu-feature in 3D planned for release in 2012 on the occasion of the centennial…
19-07-2011

PRODUCTION: Animated Kreskostoria in Production

WARSAW: Xantus Studio is working on Kreskostoria (Linestory), a original cartoon series about Polish history for cinema and television release. The film will be an entertainment and educational series presenting…
19-07-2011

Poland Announces 2011 Grants

The Polish Film Institute has announced grants for 22 films, for a total of PLN 10 million. Included are production grants for four feature films, six documentary films, and one…
19-07-2011

Poland Approved Digitalization Bill

WARSAW: Polish President Bronisław Komorowski has approved a "digitalization" bill ending the use of analogue transmitters in Poland by June 2013.
18-07-2011