Obituary: Sergiu Nicolaescu
BUCHAREST: Romania’s most popular director Sergiu Nicolaescu died on 3 January 2013 at age 82.
IFF Cyprus Announces Deadline
The 11th IFF Cyprus Film Days is accepting submissions for the international competition Glocal Images through 8 February 2013.
Croatia Sets New Record Opening
ZAGREB: Vinko Bresan's comedy The Priest's Children set a domestic film record opening in Croatia since the country became independent. The film opened on 3 January 2013.
Seven CEE Films Receive Eurimages Support
STRASBOURG: Coproductions from Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Poland are among 17 films selected for Eurimages funding during the December 2012 meeting.
In the Shadow, Four Suns Lead Czech Critics Nominations
PRAGUE: David Ondříček’s 1950’s drama Ve Stinu (In the Shadow) and Bohdan Sláma’s contemporary dark comedy Čtyři slunce (Four Suns) dominated the nominations for the Czech Film Critics Awards, which…
New Chief for Bulgaria’s National Film Center
SOFIA: Documentary film director and academic Marin Martschewski has been selected as the new director of the Bulgarian National Film Center (www.nfc.bg). He was officially nominated to the post by…
PRODUCTION: Radu Jude Developing Aferim
BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl in the World, Everybody in Our Family) is planning a spring 2014 shoot of his third film Aferim!, a Romanian-French-Italian coproduction set in…
Georgia’s Fold in My Blanket Heads to Berlin
A Fold in My Blanket, the feature film debut of Georgian film director Zaza Rusadze, will have its world premiere at the 63rd Berlinale (7-17 February 2013) where it will…
Lithuania Digitalises Cinemas
VILNIUS: Lithuania is expecting to see a burst of activity in the process of cinema digitalisation. “The comming year, 2013, probably will be a match point in digitalisation of cinemas,”…
Bohrer Continues as EUFCN President
Arie Bohrer, Film Commissioner of Location Austria (www.locationaustria.at), has been re-elected President of the European Film Commissions Network (www.eufcn.org), a position he has held since the organization’s first general assembly…
FNE wishes you a Happy and Successful New Year! See you again on 7 January 2013.
Film New Europe would like to thank all its sponsors, supporters and readers and to wish them a happy and prosperous New Year. Keep on Filming in 2013 !
Czech Parliament Overrides Klaus Veto to Approve New Film Law
PRAGUE: The Czech film industry is celebrating as the long awaited new film law was passed this week by the Czech parliament.
Croatian hit Sonja and the Bull best opening in 10 years
ZAGREB: Vlatka Vorkapic's debut feature Sonja and the Bull scored the best opening by box office for a Croatian film in 10 years.
Controversial Slovak docmaker Zuzana Piussi hits back with new online doc release
BRATISLAVA: Controversial Slovak film director Zuzana Piussi has launched her new From Fico to Fico (Od Fica do Fica) online after Slovak mulplexes refused to screen the controversial doc which…
Malta Film Commission in the spotlight
MALTA: The recent European Film Academy Awards have shown a spotlight on the Malta Film Commission (www.mfc.com.mt) and new developments in the film industry in Malta.
Film Corporation bringing new productions to Malta
MALTA: Film Corporation (www.filmok.org) has become one of the leaders in European production services during its five short years of operation in Malta with over a dozen international productions serviced…
Five Finnish Films in box office top 20
HELSINKI: Finnish films have scored an impressive five out of the Top 20 at the box office with the domestic thriller Nightmare/Painajainen merellä topping the fox office this week.
Finnish Film Foundation announces production grants
HELSINKI: Three features are receiving 1,072,000 EUR from the Finnish Film Foundation (www.ses.fi) in December 2012 with Kaisu Isto as film commissioner.
PRODUCTION: New Pasikowski project based on controversial Cold War spy Ryszard Kuklinski
WARSAW: Władysław Pasikowski is following his controversial Aftermath with a new drama Jack Strong, based on the life of colonel Ryszard Kukliński.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Wajda School’s Ekran 2013 Training Call Open
The application deadline for Ekran, a training programme organized by Wajda Studio and Wajda School, is 21 January 2013. Participation is free.
