Of Snails and Men sets admissions record in Romania
BUCHAREST: Of Snails and Men / Despre oameni şi melci (www.despreoamenisimelci.ro), the second film from Tudor Giurgiu, netted 13,929 admissions in its opening weekend, setting a ten-year record for a…
Jon Voight Vampire Movie Starts Shooting in Romania
BUCHAREST: Director Pearry Reginald Teo (Necromentia) begins filming The Dark Prince, a medieval vampire movie starring Jon Voight on 18 September 2012.
HBO Poland nabs production chief Lopuch from TVN
WARSAW: HBO Poland (www.hbo.pl) has appointed Izabela Lopuch as Head of Original Production effective 1 October 2012.
FESTIVALS: Bells of Happiness Wins Slovak Doc Award at Cinematick Fest
PIESTANY: The Slovak film festival Cinematik (www.cinematik.sk) has given the Film Europe Award for best feature-length Slovak documentary to Bells of Happiness (Zvonky šťastia) by Marek Šulík and Jana Bučka…
PRODUCTION: Bosnia and Croatia team up for Hotel Drina project
SARAJEVO: Director Šahin Šišić is in very early development with Hotel Drina, a cinematic adaptation of the play I Left My Heart in Zvornik, by the writer, scriptwriter and poet…
PRODUCTION: Croatian director Matanic in development on The High Sun project
ZAGREB: Croatian writer/director Dalibor Matanic (www.dalibormatanic.com) is developing The High Sun, a Romeo and Juliet-based love story about two people from different villages, religious and ethnic groups.
Work is in progress on filmneweurope.com: FNE Daily delivery
Film New Europe has launched a new website with faster and better technical capabilities and you will be seeing some changes and improvements over the next few weeks as we…
Production: New Polish doc Everything is Possible Completes Production
WARSAW: Polish director Lidia Duda (Entangled) is working on a documentary, Everything is Possible (Wszystko jest możliwe), about a 78-year old female hitch-hiker, who – speaking almost no foreign languages…
FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: New Demirkubuz film Inside
ADANA: Inside, which screens in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival, had its premiere at the 31st Istanbul Film Festival where it received five awards, including…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Directors Dammas and Renner on Polish Illusions
IDF spoke with Polish director Jacob Dammas and German producer/director Helge Renner about the six year long process of creating their documentary Polish Illusions.
Golden Boll Film Festival: The Stranger
ADANA: The Stranger will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival. It will be released in Turkey on 21 December 2012.
OBITUARY: Radoslav Brzobohaty
PRAGUE: Czechoslovak actor Radoslav Brzobohaty died 12 September 2012, just one day short of what would have been his 80th birthday.
PRODUCTION: New Wajda Studio production The Performer Wraps Filming
WARSAW: The Wajda Studio (www.wajdastudio.com) has completed shooting on its second feature film, The Performer, the directing debut from Maciej Sobieszczanski and Łukasz Ronduda.
PRODUCTION: New Croatian film All the Best in Development
ZAGREB: Director/screenwriter Snjezana Tribuson is developing All the Best, a romantic comedy set to shoot in autumn-winter 2013 for the Croatian company Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr).
FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Winds
ADANA: Winds will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the 2012 Golden Boll Film Festival.
Increase in multiplexes continues to spur Romanian box office growth in 2012
BUCHAREST: The Romanian box office rose by 4.1 percent in the first seven months of 2012, while admissions grew by 6.4 percent.
FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Where is My Mother Tongue?
ADANA: Where is My Mother Tongue had its world premiere in the 2012 Istanbul Film Festival’s main competition.
FESTIVALS: Batumi Launches Workshop
BATUMI: The Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF, www.biaff.org) will host a documentary workshop in partnership with Postcode Films (www.postcodefilms.com).
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master provokes storm of controversy at prize ceremony
LONDON: American director Paul Thomas Anderson took home the runner-up Silver Lion Prix of the Venice Film Festival for The Master amid a storm of controversy after The Hollywood Reporter…
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Venice Film Festival Prize Winners
VENICE: Korean director Kim Ki-duk collected the Golden Lion for Best film for his ultra violent Pieta in a year that saw Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies: Glaube as the only film…
