FNE Turkish Week: Turkish Comedy Franchise Tops Turkish Box Office Again in 2010

ISTANBUL: The money spinning Turkish comedy franchise Recep Ivedik has scored a third straight year of box office success with the release of Recep Ivedik 3. Released in 378 prints…
28-04-2010

Slovakia gets Cinéfondation spot at Cannes

Slovak director Matyas Prikler's mid-length film Dakujem, dobre (Thanks, fine) will have its international premiere in the Cinéfondation selection at the Cannes film festival.
27-04-2010

FNE Turkish Week: Turkish Film Continues to Dominate Local Box Office

ISTANBUL: Turkish films dominated the local market in 2009 with a 51% share of the box office in 2009.
27-04-2010

FESTIVALS: Fresh Film fest moves to Prague

The Fresh Film Fest will move to Prague this year, after six years in the spa town of Karlovy Vary.
27-04-2010

FNE at Finale Plzen: Midpoint launches new training programme

Five leading Central European film schools are joining forces on a project to move young filmmakers into the professional world with Midpoint, the Central European Script Center (www.midpoint-center.eu).
27-04-2010

Romanian grant conditions announced

The National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) has allocated 4,354,000 million euro (18 million RON) for the first session of the grants in 2010.
27-04-2010

FNE Turkish Week: Turkish Film Production Up more than 700% in Seven Years

ISTANBUL: Turkish feature film production has increased from 9 films released in 2002 to 69 in released in 2009 according to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
26-04-2010

Wisla Polish film fest opens in Moscow

33 sceny z życia (33 Scenes from Life) by Małgorzata Szumowska opened the Wisla Polish Film Festival (www.festiwalwisla.pl) in Moscow, with the festival dedicated to deputy minister of foreign affairs…
26-04-2010

Bulgaria’s Zincograph selected by Cannes L'Atelier

Vladislav Todorov's and Yavor Gardev's political psycho-thriller Zincograph is the first Bulgarian feature project ever chosen by the Cannes Cinéfondation (www.festival-cannes.com/fr/cinefoundation) L'Atelier networking program.
26-04-2010

FESTIVALS: Final call for BuSho film fest

The 6th BuSho film festival, running September 1-5, 2010 in Budapest, has announced its final call for online entries on May 1, 2010.
26-04-2010

Ezel Sweeps Ismail Cem Turkish TV Awards

The first ever Ismail Cem Turkish TV Awards (http://www.ismailcemawards.com/) took place on 24 April in the Turkish resort of Antalya. Prizes were awarded by Mustafa Akaydın, Provost of Antalya. The…
26-04-2010

FNE at Finale Plzen: CFC introduces new Czech productions

The Czech Film Center (CFC, www.filmcenter.cz) offered a platform for 18 films in development and production at its annual presentation during the Finale (www.filmfestfinale.cz) festival of Czech films on April…
25-04-2010

FESTIVALS: Gdynia announces competition lineup

The 35th Polish film festival taking place in Gdynia May 24-29, 2010, has announced the titles of 21 films in the main competition.
25-04-2010

FNE at Finale Plzen: Kawasaki's Rose wins Finale Plzen festival

Director Jan Hřebejk picked up the Golden Kingfisher for best feature film and the Audience Award for Kawasaki's Rose at the closing ceremony of Finale festival of Czech films held…
24-04-2010

New Czech animation festival premieres

The Czech Republic will see two animation film festivals competing for attention in the upcoming weeks: Anifest, which moved to the town of Teplice, and Anifilm, which has been newly…
22-04-2010

Turkey’s Top Resort To Host Big Bash For Turkish TV Awards

ANTALYA: The first ever Ismail Cem Turkish TV Awards (www.ismailcemawards.com) on 24 April in Antalya promises to be one of the biggest events of the year in Turkey. Antalya already…
22-04-2010

SFP opens Wroclaw branch

The Polish Filmmakers Association hads opened a new branch in Wrocław to accommodate the needs of a growing community of film professionals in the region.
22-04-2010

Poland honored at Eurovision TV Summit

Public broadcaster Telewizja Polska (www.tvp.pl) was honored for its series Londoners at the Eurovision TV Summit in Lucerne on April 21.
22-04-2010

MTG announce first quarter revenues up

Modern Times Group (www.mtg.se), the Swedish based TV operator and owner of Viasat, announced a 6% rise in revenues, but a 13% decline in sales for its operations in Estonia,…
22-04-2010

PRODUCTION: Something Good From Life begins filming

Director Dan Piţa (Luxury Hotel/Hotel de lux, Paso doble/Pas în doi) is in production with his latest film, Something Good From Life.
22-04-2010