Sony Picks up Szasz's Notebook
BUDAPEST: Sony Classics Pictures has picked up Janos Szasz’s Hungarian Oscar hopeful The Notebook.
Estonian Multiplexes Cancel Merger Plans
TALLINN: Estonia’s two largest multiplex operators, Forum Cinemas and Solaris kino, have withdrawn their bid to merge.
Record Domestic Production in Croatia
ZAGREB: Sixteen feature films were produced in Croatia in 2013, a record in the history of Croatian cinema, with 12 of them supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
FNE wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Successful New Year! See you again on 13 January 2014
Film New Europe would like to thank all its sponsors, supporters and readers and to wish them a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. Keep on Filming…
Kino Polska celebrates 10 years on the market
WARSAW: Polish channel devoted to local productions with a special focus on classics started its broadcast on 20. December 2003.
New Europe Film sold Polish and Latvian productions to Asia
WARSAW: Latvia's Oscar candidate Mother I Love You will be distributed in India while Poland's celebrated Papusza was sold to Japan.
Georgia Country Report 2013
PRODUCTIONA total of 30 films were produced in Georgia in 2012 and 2013.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Beer War
Producer Pavel Bercik dips into the topic of Czech Beer in an upcoming documentary.
WIDE Launches Online Cinema Festival
Wide and Eye on Films will launch the first CEE online film festival in Croatia beginning on 22 December 2013. The festival was initiated by Wide’s Loic Magneron.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Malta
Foreign film services, a driving force behind Malta’s film industry since its earliest days, have seen a revival in recent years.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country profile: Latvia
The Latvian film industry has begun a process of revival after hitting a low point in 2008 when Latvian economy was one of the hardest hit in the 2008 financial…
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Slovakia
The launch of Slovakia’s Audiovisual Fund four years ago has reaped benefits for Slovak film production abroad and at home.
PRODUCTION: Josephine de la Baume Stars in Ursus
SOFIA: France’s Joséphine de La Baume will star in the Ukrainian-Georgian-German-Bulgarian 2.6m EUR coproduction Ursus - The Caucasian Bear, co-written eight years ago by esteemed Georgian scriptwriter Zaza Buadze and…
Prague Short Film Marathon
PRAGUE: The Czech Film Center in cooperation with the Prague Short Film Festival, the iShorts association and AG-Kurzfilm of Germany is organising a marathon of short films on 21 December…
SPI International to launch a new channel focused on independent cinema
WARSAW: The worldwide FilmBox Arthouse TV channel is set to launch in January 2014 starting with Central and Eastern Europe and USA.
Lithuania and Estonia Join EFP
The Lithuanian Film Centre and the Estonian Film Institute will become individual members of European Film Promotion.
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country profile: Estonia
Estonia established an Estonian Film Industry Cluster in late 2012 with the support of over 20 leading production companies and organisations, followed by the launch of the Estonian Film Commission…
FNE Warsaw AV Summit Country Profile: Romania
Romania continued to garner international acclaim for domestic production despite a gap in funding, which is likely to affect the quantity of Romanian films coming onto the market in the…
FilmBox Arthouse in search of excellent new features
WARSAW: An award of 50 000 USD and screenings at the newly created FilmBox Arthouse TV Channel await filmmakers who enter the annual FilmBox Movie Award Competition.
Second Hungarian Grant for Fliegauf Film
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Film Fund gave a grant of 7.5m HUF (EUR 25,000) for preproduction works on Bence Fliegauf's new film, Hímpor.
