Romanian filmmakers win battle over funding of cinemas
BUCHAREST: The Romanian government has stepped back from a controversial plan that would have drained money from film production funding to pay for state owned cinemas, after protests by Romanian…
Croatian audiovisual sector pumps cash into state budget
ZAGREB: The Croatian audiovisual industry pays back 1.5 to 2.3 HRK into the state budget for every HRK that the government spends in subsidizing the AV sector, according to a…
FNE at Tallin Black Nights 2013: Free Range
TALLINN: Free Range, third feature from Venice Horizons award-winning Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu was selected as Estonia’s entry for the 2013 foreign language Oscar nomination despite ciritical domestic response.
National Media Authority Funds Documentaries
BUDAPEST: Hungary’s National Media Authority will distribute 117m HUF to 16 documentary productions and 74m HUF for nine science films.
Ida Scores Double Wins
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida has won the Grand Prix of the Plus Camerimage film festival and the Best Film of Spain’s Gijon film festival.
FNE at Europa Cinemas Athens 2013: Estonian Kino Artis Wins Best Programming Award
ATHENS: Estonian cinema Kino Artis was awarded the prize for Best Programming of 2013 in the Europa Cinemas network at the 18th Europa Cinemas Conference in Athens held 21-24 November…
Czech Sirena Film shooting Heavy Water War with Anna Friel
PRAGUE: Sirena Film is in production with the Norwegian TV series Heavy Water War, a WWII story starring Anna Friel.
Malta to Fund Digitalisation of Cinemas
The government of Malta plans to distribute up to 500,000 EUR toward digitalisation of Malta’s cinemas.
FNE at Baltic Event 2013: Project Slate
TALLINN: The annual Baltic Event, kicks off on 27 November this week running for three days in Tallinn presenting slates of projects in four different sections:
Aftermath scores international sales
WARSAW: Polish director Władysław Pasikowski’s controversial drama Aftermath has scored international distribution in the US, Russia and Slovakia.
FNE at Tallinn Black Nights 2013: Kertu
TALLINN: Kertu by Estonian director Ilmar Raag (The Class, Une Estonienne a Paris) topped Estonian box office for domestic films in 2013 with over 38,000 viewers to date.
American Series Filming in Lithuania
VILNIUS: The U.S. television network ABC is currently shooting an eight-part TV mini-series The Assets in Vilnius.
GRANTS: Slovakia Hands out over 30 Film Grants
BRATISLAVA: Thirteen feature films received some 1m EUR in grants in the sixth round of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, along with over 600,000 EUR for documentary film production.
PRODUCTION: Kolski Completing Production on Heart
WARSAW: Jan Jakub Kolski will complete filming on Serce, serduszko i wyprawa na koniec świata (Heart, Heartling and the Journey To The End Of The World) at the end of…
IDF DocBloc: Sugar-Blog
Andrea Culkova takes a personal look at the addiction to sugar.
Poland Funds Digital Literacy Project
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP has received state funding to coordinate a new project aimed at making public media available to everyone.
Czech Film Fund chief Helena Frankova is candidate for Czech Minister of Culture post
PRAGUE: The director of the Czech State Fund for Cinema Helena Fraňková is one of the front-running candidates for the post of Minister of Culture according to reports in the…
EU Parliament adopts Creative Europe
WARSAW: The European Parliament has adopted the new Creative Europe. The members of parliament voted 650 in favour, 32 against and there were 10 abstentions to approve the new programme…
Romanian Film Promotion Launches VOD Platform
BUCHAREST: Three film lessons on Lucian Pintilie and Tudor Giurgiu’s Love Sick are among the highlights of the newly released free VOD from Romanian Film Promotion.
Distribution and Expansion Fuel Cinema City Q3 Profits
WARSAW: Central European multiplex operator Cinema City recorded an 8.3% increase in revenues at 212.3m EUR for the first three quarters of 2013 compared with 2012, despite a 3% drop…
