Colette, Don Juan Charm Czech Audiences
PRAGUE: Jiri Menzel’s Don Juan story Womanizer took the top spot on the Czech box office, while director Milan Cieslar’s English language bow Colette remained in the top ten after…
Rangel Vulchanov Dies at 84
SOFIA: Rangel Vulchanov, voted the best Bulgarian director of the 20th century, died on 30 September 2013 after a long battle with cancer.
PRODUCTION: Czech Lion Winner Jirasky Directing Slovak Diary
BRATISLAVA: Slovak production company Furia Film is in production with the feature film Diary of Agatha Schindler, which depicts fragments of the lives of four Jewish musicians who were deported…
Poland Celebrates EFA Animation Nomination
The Congress, a Polish coproduction from Opus Film, is one of the three films nominated for the European Film Awards’ European Animated Feature Film 2013.
Docs Find a Home in Prague
PRAGUE: The vibrant Czech documentary scene was in evidence at a presentation of ten documentary works-in-progress premiering in the 2013-2014 season, a lead-up to the main event of the year:…
FNE Focus on Innovation and Building Audiences through regional networks
FNE asks Europe’s leading film professionals how Innovation can help to build new audiences for European film especially in the central and eastern European region. Next Up: We speak to…
Bulgarian Union of Film Makers Elects New President
SOFIA: Ivan Pavlov has been elected president of the Union of the Bulgarian Film Makers.
CEE Gets Serious with Oscar Hopefuls
PRAGUE: The minimalist Lithuanian documentary Conversations on Serious Topics directed by Giedre Beinoriute is the latest of the announced entries for the Oscar race for Best Foreign Language Film.
FNE Europa Distribution - Distributor of the Month: Stefan Kitanov
FNE together with Europa Distribution continues its Distributor of the Month series in recognition of the hard work and excellence of European distributors and the common problems they face -…
Last Minute Registration for Digital Production Workshop
WARSAW: FOCAL will hold workshop on digital production and post-production workflows (www.focal.ch/digiprodchallenge) in Warsaw, 28-30 November 2013. Registration deadline is 1 October.
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus Compete for EFA Awards
PRAGUE: Twelve films representing Central and Eastern Europe are among the 46 films entered into competition for EFA’s European Film Awards.
FNE at CentEast 2013: Big Names Bring Pitches to Warsaw
WARSAW: Krzysztof Zanussi, Jan Hrebejk, Nae Caranfil and Wojciech Smarzowski are among the more than 20 directors whose films are part of the works-in-progress presentation at the CentEast Market.
Janos Szasz’s KVIFF Prize Winner Hits Hungarian Screens
BUDAPEST Hungarian director János Szász’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival winner The Notebook opened last weekend (18 September 2013) with 25 copies in Hungary.
Viacom Launches US Comedy and Kids Channels on Additional Operators in Romania and Hungary
BUCHAREST/BUDAPEST: Viacom Media Networks (http://www.viacom.com/), the largest portfolio of ad-supported cable networks in the United States in terms of audience share, cut a deal with the communication operator RCS&RDS (www.rcs-rds.ro)…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Laugh if You Can
WARSAW: Narcolepsy sufferers are caught in a landscape that melds reality and the world of their dreams in Agnieszka Woszczynska's Polish documentary Laugh if You Can.
Slovenian Duo Dual and Class Enemy Break into Top Ten perform well at Slovenian box office
LJUBLJANA: A pair of Slovenian films have emerged as fall box office hits: Dual by Nejc Gazvoda and Class Enemy by Rok Biček. Both films also had strong showings at…
FNE at Warsaw FF 2013: Warsaw Competition Looks East
WARSAW: Six CEE films, including the world premiere of Anca Damian’s A Very Unsettled Summer, are among the 15 international competition films selected for the 29th Warsaw Film Festival running…
CME Appoints Matthias Settele General Director of TV Markiza
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cme.net) announced the appointment of Matthias Settele to replace outgoing General Director of Slovakia’s TV Markiza Zuzana Tapakova on 23 September.
Andrzej Jakimowski’s Imagine scores European Film Academy Nomination and international sales success
WARSAW: Polish director Andrzej Jakimowski’ Imagine has been selected as the Polish nomination for the European Film Awards.
Bulgarian Commissioner Fears Loss of Coverage with End of Analogue TV
SOFIA: As many as 350,000 to 1 m Bulgarians are unprepared for the end of the analogue TV signal, now scheduled to happen on 30 September 2013.
