PRODUCTION: Robert Pejo in Pre-Production on Paw (Mancs)
BUDAPEST: Hungarian director Robert Pejo is in pre-production on his new film, Paw, a story based on the real life of the famous Hungarian rescue dog and his trainer Laszlo…
FNE at KVIFF 2010 East of the West: The Temptation of St. Tony
The first Estonian film ever to screen in the Sundance comptetition, The Temptation of St.Tony by Veiko Õunpuu launched to a controversial reception domestically and became an unexpected box office…
CME merges Bulgarian TV management
Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cetv-net.com) plans to merge the news departments of its Bulgarian television channels. CME acquired 100% ownership of terrestrial bTV channel (www.btv.bg) and genre channels, bTV…
FNE at MIFF 2010: Polish Films Take Home Two Silver Georges’
{mosimage}MOSCOW: Films from Central and Eastern Europe has a major presence at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival (www.moscowfimfestival.ru) held from 17 to 26 June. Jan Kidawa-Blonski's Little Rose took…
PRODUCTION: Satiric comedy State of Shock begins filming
Slovenian director Andrej Košak has started production on his third film, State of Shock (Stanje šoka), produced by Danijel Hočevar of production company Vertigo/Emotionfilm (www.emotionfilm.si). This is the first collaboration…
Eurimage funds seven CEE films
The Board of Management for the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support the co-production of 14 feature films, including seven from Central and Eastern Europe, for a total…
FNE at KVIFF 2010 East of the West: Don't Look into the Mirror
With Don't Look into the Mirror/Mi nayir hayelun, Armenian helmer Suren Babayan directs an ambitious adaptation of the novel written by Perch Zeituntsyan. Producer Vardan Abovyan told FNE that he…
Young Slovak directors team up with classics
Slovak producer Fero Turna (Angel Productions), is preparing a new project that will bring together young Slovak film-makers who will adapt Slovak literary classics.
Polish National Broadcasting Council dissolved
Bronisław Komorski, the acting President of Poland, in accord with the parliament and senate rejected the 2009 annual report of the National Broadcasting Council ( KRRiT, www.krrit.gov.pl) for 2009, thus…
Bulgaria cuts film funding
Bulgaria will reduce public film funding in 2010 to €4 million instead of €9,.5 million. The Bulgarian Parliament (www.parliament.bg) approved a mid-year revised budget, the first since 1997, which according…
New award for Slovak international success
Slovak filmmakers will a new award beginning on June, 26 2010. The Kino CS award will be given annually by Film Europe s.r.o, Media Company (www.filmeurope.eu) and International Film Festival…
PRODUCTION: Warner Bros. in co-production with Ladies director
Andrzej Saramonowicz, the creator of Polish box office hit Ladies signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Entertainment Poland to produce and distribute at least two new films by the end…
FESTIVALS: Slovak Season Days for European distributors at Artfilmfest
Slovak Audiovisual Producers Association SAPA (www.sapa.cc) and Film Europe Agency EFA present Slovak Season Days, a pilot project that focuses on the promotion of Slovak films within the international market,…
Kino Polska short nominated for EFA award
Hanoi-Warsaw, a short fillm directed by Katarzyna Klimkiewicz for Kino Polska Television (www.kinopolska.pl) has been nominated for the EFA award in the Short Film category.
CineFest received MEDIA funding
CineFest, the international film festival held in the northern Hungarian city of Miskolc, has received funding support from the MEDIA program of the European Union (http://ec.europa.eu) for the second year.…
Czech actor Vladimir Dlouhy dies
Czech film and theatre actor Vladimir Dlouhy died after a short illness at age 52. Dlouhy's final film was Kajinek, now in post-production.
PRODUCTION: Havel starts filming his Leaving on July2
Former Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel announced he will begin shooting his film directing debut Leaving on July 2 instead of June, as previously announced. Havel rejected media speculation…
TVP faces funding crisis
Polish public broadcaster Telewizja Polska SA (TVP, www.tvp.pl) is seeking a 50 million PLN bank credit to maintain financial liquidity. Since the begining of the year, the station has undergone…
Latvia passes film law
Latvia has ratified a film law giving the film industry its own legal framework, after a 15 year long drafting process. The law was passed by the Latvian parliament on…
EU approves Czech film tax incentives
The European Union approved a Czech film tax incentive, announced by the Czech government on Firday, June 18. The proposal, which was approved in October 2009 by the Czech government,…
