Poland Hits Digitalization Goal
WARSAW: Poland has digitalized 99 local and art-house cinemas in 88 cities through the Polish Digital Cinemas Network programme, with more plans to convert more in 2014.
Alvernia Studios Introducing Foreign Film Incentive
WARSAW: Poland’s Alvernia Studios is teaming up with Holland’s Fu Works Productions on a financing incentive to bring international projects to Alvernia Studios.
Romania Triples Film Funding
BUCHAREST: The National Centre for Cinema will give out 6.7 m EUR/30m RON in the first session of the grants contest in 2013, which opened on 13 November, which is…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: City of Birds
COTTBUS: Russia writer/director Alena Alova pitched the tale of a young Russian émigré who falls in love with an Italian girl and ruins his family’s chance to immigrate, City of…
PRODUCTION: Warsaw by Night
WARSAW: Warsaw by Night produced and directed by Natalia Koryncka-Gruz completed filming in Warsaw on 12 November 2013.
Hungary Campaigns to Build Domestic Audiences
BUDAPEST: Nimrod Antal (Kontroll, Vacancy, Predators) has been lured back to Hungary ten years after making his 2003 international breakthrough (and debut) movie Kontroll to create a promotional film to…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Silence of the Scream
COTTBUS: The winner of the 2012 Cottbus Film Festival, Zebra Film Studio of Poland, was back at Cottbus in the winner’s pitch slot of Connecting Cottbus with the project Silence…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013 Seventeen Seconds
COTTBUS: Romanian husband-and-wife directing/producing team Andrei Cretulescu and Codruta Cretulescu presented their love-triangle-with-a-twist project Seventeen Seconds at the 15th edition of Connecting Cottbus.
FESTIVALS: Black Nights 2013 Competition Spans Europe and Asia
TALLINN: The EurAsia main competition of the 17th Black Nights Film Festival running 15 November – 1 December 2013 encompasses European Cannes competitors and debuting Asian directors when the main…
Citadella Plans Great Siege in Malta
Citadella, a newcomer to the Malta film industry, plans a three-season, 24 episode coproduction with Canada, Germany and the U.K.
Romanian filmmakers protest changes to funding and cinemas
BUCHAREST: Romanian filmmakers are protesting a bill which they claim will give 50 percent of the Film Fund to local councils for the renovation of old cinema theatres and the…
Croatian Kids Film Tops Box Office
ZAGREB: Silvije Petranovic’s adaptation of the classic children novel The Brave Adventures of the Little Shoemaker sold 21,693 tickets in its first weekend, outperforming Thor: The Dark World.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: Marriage
COTTBUS: Marriage, the winner of the best pitch award at Connecting Cottbus is a love triangle that touches on a taboo topic in Kosovo: homosexuality.
FNE TV: Joanna Wendorff head of MEDIA Desk Poland
FNE asked Joanna Wendorff about the Warsaw Audiovisual Summitt that will take place 11-12 December and why industry decision makers expect this summit to set the agenda for the region…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2013: The Man with the Answers
COTTBUS: The Man with the Answers, a Cypriot/Greek roadmovie that travels from Italy through Austria to Germany, was seeking production partners from those countries at the Connecting Cottbus pitching forum,…
FNE at Cottbus IFF 2013: Russia Takes Top Prizes
COTTBUS: Russian films took the Best Film and Best Director awards at the 23rd Cottbus IFF which concluded on 9 November 2013, with The Geographer Drank His Globe Away by…
Czech Start-up Addresses Film Piracy
PRAGUE: Czech filmmakers hope the new project 31s will open up a new source of income from voluntary online payments for digital copies of their films.
Croatia, Romania Receive EFA Nominations
PRAGUE: The Priest’s Children (Interfilm), a Croatian/Serbian coproduction directed by Vinko Brešan, has been nominated for European Comedy 2013 in the annual European Film Awards.
FNE at IFF Bratislava 2013: Slovenia Sweeps Awards with Class
BRATISLAVA: Faced with the question of to be or not to be, the 15th Bratislava IFF decided to be, albeit in a reduced form, to the clear delight of the…
FNE partners with Poland for Warsaw AV Summit
WARSAW: The first Warsaw Audiovisual Summit under the auspices of the Polish Ministry of Culture will bring together the top policy and industry decision makers from the New Europe countries…
