FESTIVALS: Debut Film Wins Kaunas Audience Award

KAUNAS: Lithuanian filmmaker Dovilė Gasiūnaitė’s first feature film Narcissus (www.ketvirtaversija.lt) won the Audience Award at the Kaunas International Film Festival (www.kinofestivalis.lt).
18-10-2012

FNE at Warsaw FF 2012: Dogwoof Picks up Marczak Documentary

WARSAW: A controversial Polish-German documentary about fighting for the environment with erotic films will receive broad distribution in the UK, Germany and Poland.
17-10-2012

PRODUCTION: Hungarian Feature Documentary Love Streams in Production

BUDAPEST: Hungarian documentary filmmaker Ágnes Soós is currently shooting Love Stream (Szerelempatak), a look at searching for love in old age.
17-10-2012

Malta Gets Funds for Film Training

MALTA: Malta will receive 500,000 EUR for help in creating a skilled film industry, with EU funds awarded to the Malta Film Commission (www.mfc.com.mt), which announced the news.
17-10-2012

Major Reorganisation Ahead for Estonia’s Film Institutions

TALLINN: The board of the Estonian Film Foundation, the nation’s principal public film financing and development body, has passed a decision to reorganise the Foundation into Estonian Film Institute. The…
16-10-2012

CentEast Moscow Market in Red Square

MOSCOW: The fourth annual CentEast Moscow Market (www.centeast.eu) has found a slot in the new Red Square Screenings, (15-19 October 2012) a new initiative backed by the Russian Cinema Fund.
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Bulgaria Considers Bill on Audio for Ads

SOFIA: The Bulgarian Parliament will vote on an amendment limiting the volume for broadcasting commercial advertisements on TV and radio.
16-10-2012

OBITUARY: Czech animator Bretislav Pojar

PRAGUE: Cannes winning Czech animator Bretislav Pojar has died, just days after celebrating his 89th birthday.
16-10-2012

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2012: The Color of the Chameleon Wins Grand Prix Award

VARNA: Vladislav Todorov's film adaptation of his novel Zincograph, The Color of the Chameleon, produced by Peripeteia Films - Buryana Zaharieva & Vladislav Todorov (www.peripeteiafilms.com) was awarded the national “Golden…
15-10-2012

FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: The State of Shock

The State of Shock by Slovenian director Andrej Košak is a multilateral coproduction between Slovenian Vertigo/Emotionfilm (www.emotionfilm.si), Bulgarian Art Fest (www.siff.bg), Serbian Baš Čelik (www.bascelik.net), Bosna and Herzegovian SCCA/PRO.BA (www.pro.ba)…
15-10-2012

FNE at Varna Golden Rose FF National Competition: Spain

VARNA : The only coproduction that participated in the feature film competition of the 31st “Golden Rose” Varna Film Festival (5-11 October 2012) Spain grabbed the “best script” award.
15-10-2012

PRODUCTION: The Brave Adventures of Little Shoemaker Shooting

ZAGREB: Director/screenwriter Silvije Petranovic’s adaptation of I.Brlic.Mazuranic‘s famous children novel The Brave Adventures of Hlapić started shooting in September 11 and will wrap November 17. Maydi Mervar Petranovic and Silvije…
15-10-2012

Cyprus Short Film Days 2012 Honours Teo Angelopoulos

LIMASSOL: The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus kicks off on 13 October with a screening of Theo Angelopoulos's first short film entitled 'The Broadcast' (1968). This year's festival is…
12-10-2012

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2012: One More Dream

VARNA: Director Nikolay Mutafchiev presents his debut film One More Dream in the Bulgarian National Competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival.
12-10-2012

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2012: The Foreigner

VARNA: The Foreigner by writer/director/actor Niki Iliev is a romantic comedy about a young man who travels to Bulgaria and falls in love with a hot tempered village girl.
12-10-2012

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2012: Puzzle

VARNA:Puzzle tells a story of thirty years of romantic love of a man for the woman in his life. Scriptwriter and director Ivo Staikov (son of eminent director Ludmil Staikov…
12-10-2012

FNE Doc Bloc: Nobel Prize Winner at Jihlava

JIHLAVA: Chinese novelist and filmmaker Gao Xingjian, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, will be a guest at the 2012 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, 23-28 October.
12-10-2012

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2012: Competition: Incognita

VARNA: Mihail Pandoursky’s Incognita, screening in the Bulgarian national competition at the Golden Rose Film Festival is a coproduction with the world famous Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. The film…
11-10-2012

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2012: Competition: Migration of the Belted Bonito

VARNA: Bulgarian film critics called Migration of the Belted Bonito, written, directed and produced by Lyudmil Todorov, “one of the finest comedies of the newest Bulgarian cinema.” The film is…
11-10-2012

PRODUCTION: Romanian Debut At My Father’s Home in Preparation

BUCHAREST: At My Father’s Home, the first feature film of Andrei Cohn, is completing preproduction and will begin shooting on 17 October 2012. Giuliano Doman is producing through Family Film…
11-10-2012