PRODUCTION: Hirte in Postproduction with In the Name of the Mayor

BUCHAREST: Romanian born Paris-based director Anca Hirte is in postproduction with a bittersweet observational documentary In the Name of the Mayor.
23-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Lenin?!

COTTBUS: A Russian outpost in northern Kyrgyzstan is the setting for a U.K. produced black comedy about three punks who, unwittingly steal a statue of a Russian icon, Lenin?!
23-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Motherland

COTTBUS: Turkish writer/director Senem Tüzen will make her feature film debut with Motherland, a struggle between a traditionalist mother and daughter, who moves to the city.
23-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: A Good Wife

COTTBUS: Serbian star Mirjana Karanovic (When Father Was Away on Business, Grbavica) will make her writing and directing debut with a post-Yugoslav war film A Good Wife.
23-11-2012

FNE - IDF DocBloc: Docs Awarded as Sarajevo Fest

Films from Southeastern Europe were on view at the Human Rights film festival in Sarajevo.
23-11-2012

FNE AVP Live ! Elena Romanova head of the International Department of the Russian Cinema Fund

FNE asked Romanova how EU producers can coproduce successfully with Russia, during the Red Square Screenings in Moscow. See the full interview on FNE TV.
22-11-2012

Vanishing Waves Shores up Foreign Sales

VILNIUS: Lithuanian film director Kristina Buožytė‘s third film Vanishing Waves (Aurora), produced by Ieva Norviliene through her company Tremora (www.tremora.com) has been sold to the US, Australia, South Korea, Sweden,…
22-11-2012

FESTIVALS: Scanorama 2012 winners

VILNIUS: Estonian director Ivan Pavljutskov won the Best Baltic Short prize for his film White Square as the Scanorama Film Festival (8-18 November 2012, www.scanorama.lt/en) wrapped up its 10 days…
22-11-2012 m

Bulgarian TV7 Changes Ownership

SOFIA: The London-based Alegro Capital (www.alegrocapital.com) corporate finance advisory company became the new owner of TV7 (www.tv7.bg), along with family channel BBT (www.bbt.tv) and children’s channel Super7 (www.super7.bg).
22-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus: Freedom or Death

COTTBUS: Following the success of Punk’s Not Dead which won the East of the West award at the 2011 Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com), Macedonian director Vladimir Blazevski and Punk Film…
22-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: The Mute

COTTBUS: Polish director Bartek Konopka, whose imaginative and clever 2009 documentary Rabbit a la Berlin received an Oscar nomination, presented his new project The Mute at the 2012 edition of…
22-11-2012

FNE Exclusive: Dr Rudolf Scholten, Austrian Film Institute

Dr. Rudolf Scholten is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Film Institute Austria (www.filminstitut.at) and member of the Board of Executive Directors of Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG.
21-11-2012

Domestic Films Conquer Dynamic Finnish Market

HELSINKI: Finnish film admissions are on track to equal or surpass the 2010 record, with 2.05 m admissions to date, a 30 percent share of the 2012 market.
21-11-2012

Malta Lines up 2013 Foreign Films

MALTA: The Malta Film Fund (www.mfc.com.mt) distributed 239,000 EUR for domestic production and it was announced that three films are scheduled to shoot in Malta in 2013.
21-11-2012

PRODUCTION: To Paris, with the ID in Preproduction

BUCHAREST: Şerban Marinescu is in preproduction with To Paris, with the ID, a contemporary satire about the hopes of people who thought the fall of communism would be followed by…
21-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Family Film

COTTBUS: Czech producer Jiri Konecny of endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz) teams up with FAMU (www.famu.cz) trained Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu for his second film shot in the Czech Republic, Family Film.
21-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Three Windows and a Hanging

COTTBUS: Kosovo made its first appearance at the Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de) pitching forum with Three Windows and a Hanging, a dramatic post-war story from leading Kosovo director Isa Qosja.
21-11-2012

FNE AVP Live ! Rolandas Kvietkauskas Director of Lithuanian Film Centre

Scanorama Ontente: UK Baltic States CoProduction Forum. FNE asks the director of the newly established Lithuanian Film Centre (www.lfc.lt/en) about the challenges ahead for the EU’s newest national film body. …
20-11-2012

Cinema City Posts Q3 Recovery

PRAGUE: Cinema City (www.cinemacity.nl), the largest multiplex operator in CEE, recovered most of its earlier 2012 losses in the third quarter, with revenues up 8 percent, to 74.9 m EUR,…
20-11-2012

Polish Companies Support US Indie Projects

WROCŁAW: Five American independent films presented at the US IN PROGRESS event during the 3rd American Film Festival (www.americanfilmfestival.pl) will receive Polish support.
20-11-2012