FNE: Interview with Stefan Kitanov, Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year

SOFIA: FNE spoke with Stefan Kitanov on the challenges facing the development of the Sofia Film Fest and the distribution of European films in Eastern Europe.
13-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Porumboiu in postproduction with A Nine-Minute Interval

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Corneliu Porumboiu, recipient of Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes for Police, Adjective (2009), is in postproduction with his third feature.
12-12-2012

Krakow Film Fest Silver Dragons winners join Oscars list

WARSAW: Krakow Film Festival’s Sliver Dragon winners have been added to the list of qualifying awards for the Academy Awards nominations in the short film category.
12-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Polish musical quasi-documentary in production

WARSAW: Aleksander Dembski is working on his quasi-documentary I Love You Like Ireland about a Polish band Kobranocka.
12-12-2012

Bulgarian Cinemania fest reports record breaking audiences

SOFIA: The most important Sofia autumn film event Cinemania (www.kinomania.bg), which for the first year was also held in Plovdiv and Varna, reported record breaking audiences.
12-12-2012

FNE TV Evgeniy Gindilis: Executive Director Red Square Screenings

FNE TV asked Gindilis how central and eastern European producers can coproduce with Russia and how Red Square Screenings (www.rac-cb.com) is opening doors for European producers in Russia. See the…
12-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Polish débutantes work on a film portrayal of Warsaw

WARSAW: Shooting has just started on Warsaw Stories, a feature drama directed by five young Polish filmmakers.
11-12-2012

Digitalisation drives increase in TV subscribers in Romania

BUCHAREST: The number of subscribers for programmes retransmission rose in Romania in the first half of 2012 by 2.9% compared to the end of 2011, leading to a small increase…
11-12-2012

FNE TV at European Film Academy Awards 2012: Malta

FNE TV spoke to European Film Academy Board members Krzysztof Zanussi (Click Here) who helms Poland’s Tor Studios and Hungarian producer Laszlo Kantor (Click Here) responsible for Central and Eastern…
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FNE TV at Europa Cinemas Conference 2012: Ian Christie, President Europa Cinemas

FNE TV asked Christie about the biggest challenges facing European arthouse cinemas today. (Click Here)
11-12-2012

FNE at Tbilisi IFF 2012: Tbilisi Prize Winners

TBILISI: Polish director Slawomir Fabicki took home the Golden Prometheus, the top award of the international competition, at the 13th Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) for his film Loving. Georgian…
10-12-2012

FNE TV at European Film Academy Awards 2012: Malta

FNE TV spoke to two of the prize winners at the awards ceremony in Malta, Tudor Giurgiu, winner of best short film for Superman, Spiderman or Batman (click here) and…
10-12-2012

FNE TV at Europa Cinemas Conference 2012: Stefan Kitanov, Europa Cinemas Entrepreneur of the Year

FNE spoke to Stefan Kitanov at the recent Europa Cinemas Conference in Paris about how to get audiences into cinemas in Europe and his plans for the development of Bulgarian…
10-12-2012

New Bulgarian documentaries distributed in the national cinema network

SOFIA: Borislav’s Kolev full-length documentary Stoichkov dedicated to the worldwide football legend Hristo Stoichkov and Ilian Metev’s Sofia’s Last Ambulance focused on the daily life of an ambulance team in…
10-12-2012

Peter Greenaway tracks Brancusi in Romania

BUCHAREST: Following the shooting of Goltzius and the Pelican Company in Croatia, Peter Greenaway is eyeing the possibility of shifiting to Romania for a feature inspired by the life of…
07-12-2012

Hungary Launches Film and TV Awards

BUPAPEST: Actor and director Hakan Yildiz and a collection of independent filmmakers are organizing Hungary's first official film and TV awards, the HUFTAs (www.hungarianfilmtvawards.com), scheduled to take place 1 June…
07-12-2012

FNE TV: Baltic Event 2012: Anna Katchko: New Kazakh Cinema

FNE spoke to producer Anna Katchko in Tallinn about the Baltic Event’s new B’EST programme and the new opportunities that are opening up for European producers to cooperate with Kazakhstan.
07-12-2012

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Nikolaus Geyrhalter Retrospective

Documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter has a gift for connecting the dots in Europe's increasingly industrialized world, as his compelling work in Abendland and Our Daily Bread illustrate.
07-12-2012

Film Spring Open Aims to Democratize Production

WARSAW: Film Spring Open (www.filmspringopen.eu/previs.html), a new system for creating "previsualizations" (or Previs) for feature proposals, is hoped to boost both the prospects of indie filmmakers and the number of…
07-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Vinnie Jones in Lithuania UK coproduction Flight Redirected

VILNIUS: Controversial director Emilis Velyvis is working on his new action-comedy-thriller Flight Redirected, the story of four friends turned first-time robbers, who get stranded in an Eastern Europe and have…
06-12-2012