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).
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
OBITUARY: Czech animator Bretislav Pojar
PRAGUE: Cannes winning Czech animator Bretislav Pojar has died, just days after celebrating his 89th birthday.
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…
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)…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
