When East Meets West Announces the 2019 East and West Focus
TRIESTE: The 2019 edition of When East Meets West will have a new exciting East and West focus on Central Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine) and Benelux.
FNE at New Horizons IFF: Polish Days Completed Films
WROCŁAW: The 7th edition of Polish Days Completed Films (30 July-1 August 2018) within the 18th New Horizons International Film Festival showcased five completed Polish projects including the new titles…
PRODUCTION: Macedonian Director Igor Aleksov Shooting Debut Feature Lena and Vladimir
SKOPJE: Macedonian director Igor Aleksov is currently shooting his debut feature Lena and Vladimir, which has been supported by the Macedonian Film Agency. The film is a 100% domestic production.
FNE AV Innovation: TX-Mirror: Swaps Time and Space in Cinema
VIENNA: Real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, 2018
PRODUCTION: Alexandre Aja Shoots Paramount Pictures Production Crawl in Serbia
BELGRADE: USA- based French director Alexandre Aja has just started shooting his new feature film Crawl in the capital city of Serbia with Work in Progress company servicing. Sam Raimi…
FNE at New Horizons 2018: New Horizons Studio+ Focus on Marketing
WROCŁAW: Weronika Czołnowska, Head of Industry at 18th New Horizons IFF, talked to FNE about the 9th edition of the New Horizons Studio+ workshop (27-30 July 2018 ) and explained…
Poland Introduces 30% Cash Rebate for Film Productions
WARSAW: The Polish Government has approved a new draft bill offering a 30% cash rebate on qualifying film production expenses. The Polish Film Institute will have a 200m PLN /…
PRODUCTION: Ewa Puszczyńska and Ada Solomon Team Up for New Tomasz Wasilewski Drama
WROCŁAW: Ewa Puszczyńska is developing Tomasz Wasilewski new drama Fools/Głupcy (working title), which will be a Polish/Romanian coproduction together with the Romanian Ada Solomon and lensed by Romanian Oleg Mutu.…
SOFA School of Film Agents 2018 Announces Participants
WARSAW: Participants from Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Hungary, Israel and Ukraine have been selected for the 6th edition SOFA School of Film Agents, set to take place in Warsaw from 26…
PISF and EAVE Scholarship Available for Polish Producers
WROCLAW: Polish Film Institute and EAVE will grant for the third year a scholarship to one Polish producer for the EAVE 2019 Producers Workshop. The winner will be chosen among…
Call for Projects for Tallinn Industry and Baltic Event
TALLINN: Calls for projects for Script Pool Tallinn, Baltic Event Co-Production Market and POWR Baltic Stories Exchange are open.
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Director Kostadin Bonev In Postproduction With Away from the Shore
SOFIA: Bulgarian director Kostadin Bonev is completing postproduction on his new feature film Away From the Shore (aka Wolves around Us). This Bulgarian/Ukrainian coproduction is a personal interpretation of the…
PRODUCTION: First Serbian/Chinese Coproduction Belgrade Escape Starts Shooting
BELGRADE: Belgrade Escape by Wang Zhongyan, the first Serbian/Chinese coproduction, started shooting in Belgrade on 26 July 2018. The film is a coproduction between Chinese Fujian Broken Films and Serbian…
New Europe Film Sales Picks-up Israeli/Polish/German Coproduction The Delegation
WARSAW : Polish sales agent New Europe Film Sales has acquired Asaf Saban’s Israeli/Polish/German coproduction The Delegation which is still in development.
FESTIVALS: Killing Jesus Wins the 21st Motovun Film Festival
MOTOVUN: Laura Mora’s Killing Jesus (Colombia, Argentina) was awarded Propeller of Motovun for Best Film at the 21st edition of Motovun Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Doc Alliance award…
FESTIVALS: Sarajevo’s CineLink 2018 Announces Work in Progress Selection
SARAJEVO: Eight feature films and two documentaries have been selected in the Sarajevo Film Festival's CineLink co-production market Work in Progress section. The list includes projects from Romania, Bulgaria and…
Polish Film Festival in Gdynia Launches One-Minute Video Competition
GDYNIA: Legal Culture Foundation and the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia are launching a video competition for one-minute films made using a camera, the phone or an animated technique.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Martin Horyna: There Is Still a Reason to Separate Documentary Films
Click HERE to read an interview with documentary film expert Martin Horyna, member of the Programme Department at the Karlovy Vary IFF and one of the three main persons selecting…
FNE at Venice 2018: CEE Films at the 75th Venice Film Festival
VENICE: Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers, the first minority coproduction for Cristian Mungiu’s Mobra Films, and Sunset by Hungarian László Nemes, with Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov in the lead, were…
FNE at Venice 2018: 75th Venice Film Festival Full Programme Lineup
VENICE: Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers, the first minority coproduction for Cristian Mungiu’s Mobra Films, and Sunset by Hungarian László Nemes, with Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov in the lead, were…
