Poland, Romania Win Shooting Stars Spots
Polish actor: Jakub Gierszał (Suicide Room) and Romanian actress Ana Ularu (Outbound) are among the ten young talents chosen as the 2012 Shooting Stars (www.shooting-stars.eu), sponsored by European Film Promotion.…
PRODUCTION: The Last Black Sea Pirates in Postproduction
SOFIA: The Bulgarian production company Agitprop (www.agitprop.bg) is in the final postproduction on The Last Black Sea Pirates and Sir Norman Foster, a debut full-length documentary directed and written by…
Czech Culture Minister Resigns
PRAGUE: Jiri Besser, the Czech Minister of Culture, resigned from office on 8 December 2012. The prime minister accepted his resignation.
Essential Killing Named to France's Top Ten
{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's film Essential Killing has been named one of the ten best films of 2011 by the French "Cahiers du Cinema" critics.
FESTIVALS: Cyprus Film Days Call for Entries
{mosimage}The 10th Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival (20-29 April 2012, www.cyprusfilmdays.com) is accepting entries through 3 February 2012 for its international competition programme, "Glocal Images."The festival is organized by…
Public TV Funding under Discussion in Poland
WARSAW: The discussion on the funding of public broadcasting in Poland has resulted in two draft amendments to the law on TV and radio licenses.
Latvian TV's Requests Cable Fee
RIGA: Commercial Latvian TV stations LNT and TV3 are asking cable TV operators to pay for there broadcasts of the commercials stations. Currently cable companies are able to broadcast the…
PRODUCTION: Four Suns in Postproduction
PRAGUE: Czech director and screenwriter Bohdan Slama is in the final stages of postproduction with the drama Four Suns, which is expected to be completed in early 2012 for a…
FESTIVALS: Watch Docs Screens 19 Competition Titles
WARSAW: Nineteen documentary films will compete for the main prize of the 11th edition of Watch Docs IFF (8-18 December 2011, watchdocs.pl), with a focus on the topic of human…
New Horizons Acquires Seven Films
WARSAW: Poland's New Horizons Association (www.nowehoryzonty.pl), the organizer of the New Horizons IFF and distributor of art house films, announced that it has picked up seven new titles, including several…
PRODUCTION: TV Series Galeria in Production for TVP
WARSAW: ATM Grupa has just begun production on Galeria, a TV series that will premiere on Polish public broadcaster TVP1 in January 2012.
Tbilisi IFF Opens with Faust
(TBILISI) The 12th Tbilisi International Film Festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge) opened on 6 December with a screening of Faust directed by Alexander Sokurov. The festival runs through 11 December.
Finnish Films Surpass 1.1 Million Admissions
Domestic films have taken 17% of the market share in Finnish cinemas, according to data released by Finnish distributors. As of the end of November 2011, admissions to Finnish films…
Conference Ponders Future of Arthouse Cinemas
The international conference on film exhibition in Europe winds to a close in Paris on 7 December with a panel discussion on how European arthouse cinemas are preparing for the…
Romania 2011 Country Profile
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: The Romanian domestic film industry remained steady in 2011, while coproductions and foreign films were on the rise. The foreign interest in the Romanian films continues and national films…
PRODUCTION: Cristian in Development in Romania
{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Director, screenwriter and producer Tudor Giurgiu is developing his third feature and currently co-writing the third draft with Loredana Novak. The film will be produced by Libra Film (www.librafilm.net).
Lithuania Picks Up My Man Can
Lithuanian commercial TV broadcaster LNK (lnk.lt) has acquired the competitive game show My Man Can from German sales company SevenOne International. The show will debut on LNK in January 2012.
Gypsy Competes at Les Arcs
The multi-awarded Slovak film Gypsy directed by Martin Sulik will compete for the Crystal Arrow in the official competition of the Festival de Cinéma Européen des Arcs, 10-17 December 2012.
PRODUCTION: Cannibal Vegetarian in Postproduction in Croatia
{mosimage}ZAGREB: Director/screenwriter Branko Schmidt is in postproduction with the dramatic feature film Cannibal Vegetarian, with an expected completion date of February 2012. The 85-minute film is produced by Stanislav Babic…
FESTIVALS: In Darkness Wins Plus Camerimage
In Darkness, the Polish Oscar entry directed by Agnieszka Holland won the main competition award, the Golden Frog, for cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska at the Plus Camerimage IFF (www.pluscamerimage.pl), which ended…
