PRODUCTION: Bulgarian animation The Blood goes into production
Bulgarian animation director, writer, art director and VFX artist Velislava Gospodinova started working on the animated film The Blood Gospodinova is the director of animation film The Lighthouse currently making…
EastEuropean Forum marks 10th anniversary
East European Film Forum, the leading CEE market for documentary films, is accepting submissions through September 3 for its tenth edition, taking place in Jihlava, Czech Republic, October 21-28.
Agro Channel to launch in 2010
The National Audiovisual Council of Romania (www.cna.ro) has granted a satellite license to Valtec Media Broadcasting SRL for a new Agro Channel to be broadcast in Romania and possibly in…
LithuanianTV channel faces lawsuit
Lithuanian TV channel TV3 (www.tv3.lt) has been sued over a Mrs. Universe contest held on August 21. The Miss Universe Organization in the U.S. filed a lawsuit on August 24…
Record number of Romanian go into distribution
At least ten Romanian films are expected to open in local cinemas by the end of 2010. Distributors are still juggling schedules looking for their best release dates.
Womb picked up for North American release
Womb, from Hungarian writer/director Benedek Fliegauf, has been picked up for distribution in North America by Olive Film. World sales agent Match Factory (www.the-match-factory.com) announced that the film will have…
Slovak TV faces financial reform
The Slovak minister of culture and tourism, Daniel Krajcer, has announced plans to change the financing of Slovak public TV (www.stv.sk ) and radio, according to a report in Slovak…
Kolski's Venice locks in Montreal premiere
Jan Jakub Kolski's Venice has been selected for the main competition at the Montreal Film Festival, where the Polish film will have its international premiere. The premiere screening will take…
PRODUCTION: Kukuriku: Woman Kingdom goes into post-production
Kukuriku: Woman Kingdom, a Turkish sex comedy about relationships in Turkish culture, completed filming on August 6 and has gone into postproduction. The 2.3 million dollar film is produced by…
PRODUCTION: Tom Sawyer in shooting in Germany and Romania
German director Hermine Huntgeburth is filming a new adaptation of Mark Twain's classical novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The shooting starts on August 30 and will take place in…
PRODUCTION: From Love With Best Intentions begins shooting
Adrian Sitaru (Angling/Pescuit sportiv) starts shooting his second feature, From Love With Best Intentions/ Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune intenţii on September 9. The film is a story about…
CentEast selection process opens
CentEast Market Warsaw-Moscow (www.centeast.eu) is accepting submissions for its 2010 event, held in Warsaw October 15-17 and in Moscow on October 17. Filmmakers with feature films and documentaries for theatrical…
Polish and Turkish actors cast in Iranian film
An Iranian debut film, Forbidden Love, which is set to film in Turkey will star Polish actress Helena Poplavsky and at least six Turkish actors.
Romanian grants announced
Five debut films and another ten feature films are among the recipients of the latest round of Romanian grants.
The Two Borgias
The Czech tax incentives system has attracted a big-budget french-german coproduction to Prague's Barrandov studios. The Borgias, a 12 episode Tv series based on the 15th century italian aristocratic family,…
Hungarian 3D animation Egill in production
Áron Gauder, director of the internationally successful feature animation, Nyócker (The District) is in an advanced phase of his new project, a 3D animation with a complex visual world, Egill,…
SPI signs Hungarian cable deal
A distribution agreement has been concluded between the film channel operator SPI International and the television channel distribution company Tematik Kábel.
FNE interview with the President of Hungarian Motion PIcture Foundation. Zoltán Kőrösi
Distribution is the weakest point of the Hungarian film industry - says the new president of the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation in his interview. Instead of 25-31 films per year…
Morgen sold to Switzerland and France
Marian Crişan's first feature, recipient of four prizes at Locarno will be distributed in Switzerland by Secondo Film GmbH (www.secondofilm.com) and in France by Les Films du Losange (www.filmsdulosange.fr).
NonStop expands in Baltics
NonStop TV (www.nonstop.tv), which offers niche TV in the Baltics, as well as northern Europe and Africa, has completed an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Television in the Baltics.
