FESTIVALS: BIAFF Grand Prix award goes to In Darkness
BATUMI: Agnieszka Holland's Oscar nominated In Darkness won the main award at the 7th Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (www.biaff.org).
PRODUCTION: Waldemar Krzystek shooting The Photographer
WROCŁAW: Waldemar Krzystek, director of the Polish Oscar candidate 80 Million, is filming a thriller entitled The Photographer.
Chello, RCS&RDS to Launch New Channels in Romania
BUCHAREST: Two major TV players plan fall 2012 launches of theme channels Digi World, Digi Life and Megamax TV.
Golden Boll Film Festival: Where the Fire Burns
ADANA: Where the Fire Burns, the last part of Ismail Gunes’ Place Trilogy, screens in the Turkish National Competition. The film was released theatrically in Turkey on 5 May 2012…
Golden Boll Film Festival: Somewhere in Between
ADANA: Three years after her San Sebastian winner Pandora’s Box director Yesem Ustaoglu brings Somewhere in Between to the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll film festival.
CME Promotes Mocanu, Budinschi of PRO TV
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises (www.cetv-net.com) announced the appointment of Constantin Mocanu, General Director of PRO TV, to the position of Senior Vice-President Head of Voyo. PRO TV Head of…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Doc Maker Hanna Polak talks about her new film Svalka- Yulia's Journey
IDF interviews Polish documentary filmmaker Hanna Polak about her film Click HERE to read full article on DokWeb
Yuma dominates the Polish box office
WARSAW: The Polish-Czech coproduction Yuma directed by Piotr Mularuk has posted one the strongest openings for a domestic film opening in the last 10 years.
Golden Boll Film Festival: Watchtower
ADANA: Watchtower screens in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival, after having its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival, in the Contemporary World Cinema…
PRODUCTION: Koko and the Ghosts sequel The Mysterious Boy starts production
ZAGREB: The Mysterious Boy, based on a famous Croatian children’s novel and a sequel to the 2011 critical and box office hit Koko and the Ghosts, has started shooting. Koko…
PRODUCTION: Nejc Gazvoda Shooting Dual
LJUBLJANA: Slovenian director Nejc Gazvoda (27) has begun shooting on Dual, a love story between two girls, a Slovenian and a Danish, his first film after his acclaimed debut feature…
Alois Nebel Nominated for EFA Award
PRAGUE: The Czech film Alois Nebel is one of three contenders for the European Film Academy’s (www.europeanfilmacademy.org) 2012 animated feature film award.
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…
