Film financing in Lithuania: Rasa Miskiniyte
Producer Rasa Miskiniyte's 600,000 euro documentary The Bug Trainer is a tribute to persistence and diligence in the face of limited national funding resources.
Film financing in Lithuania: Loss marketing campaign
With no state institutional funding, the Lithuanian producers of Loss decided that a multi-pronged promotional campaign was the only way to recover their investment on the 600,000 euro project.
Polish Film Festival in Gdynia Underlines Revival of National Film Industry
The 33rd annual festival of Polish Feature Films in Gdynia underlined the revival of the national film industry fueled by funding from the government backed Polish Film Institute.
Bathory reaches one million admissions
Big-budget historical movie Bathory by Juraj Jakubisko reached one million admissions as of September 15, distributor Bontonfilm (www.bontonfilm.cz) announced.
Dzift selected for Oscar entry from Bulgaria
Javor Gardev's provocative neo-noir debut Dzift, which won a best director prize at the Moscow fim festival, is Bulgaria's bid for an Oscar nomination.
Chop Shop wins Arsenals lottery grand prize
Inviting representatives from each of the 16 "winning" international competition films on stage for the closing Arsenals ceremony on September 20, the festival concluded with its traditional lottery prize drawing,…
Renessaince TV series from Bela Tarr
The National Cultural Fund of Hungary (www.nka.hu) is supporting a Renessaince television series project from production company T.T. Filmmuhely under the artistic direction of Bela Tarr.
Freimane to launch new production company
Producer Laima Freimane of Screen Vision production company is set to launch a new services oriented company, 5 Level Production, at a grand opening on October 9.
Baltic film production soars
Baltic filmmakers and industry professionals are showing off the jewels of newly energized film production in the Baltic Film Competition, which opened September 17 as part of the Arsenals festival…
New tender on Slovak digital television
The Telecommunication Office of the Slovak Republic (www.teleoff.gov.sk) invites tenders for the first two DVB-T multiplexes.
Marhoul back in action with Tobruk
Tobruk, the new World Warr II film from former Barrandov CEO-turned producer-turned director Vaclav Marhoul, fittingly had its pre-premier in Eastern Slovakia on the anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.
I Was Here tops Estonia’s box office on first weekend
The Karlovy Vary East of the West competition film I Was Here, directed by Rene Vilbre, premiered on Friday, September 12, and shot to the top of Estonian box office…
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Little Moscow
Waldemar Krzystek's Little Moscow, the first Polish movie dealing with the history of the Soviet army's stationing in Poland, premieres at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Road to Paradise
Marta Plucinska, producer of Road to Paradise, says that director Gerwazy Regula's film about a single mother working in a slaughterhouse who discovers she has a gift for healing, follows…
Kasztner story lures filmmakers
Considered something of a Hungarian Oskar Schindler, although less known, Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, the Jewish rescuer in Budapest during the Holocaust, was the subject of yet another documentary at the…
Czech Day at Gdynia festival
The Polish Film Festival in Gdynia puts Czech films into focus on September 18, with Czech Film Day.
More doc funding for Latvia
The National Film Centre of Latvia (NFC) has received 26 documentary film project proposals for the second film project competition in 2008.
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Drowsiness
With her second feature, Drowsiness, Magdalena Piekorz once again explores the emotional dysfunction of the film's three leading characters.
Gdynia Polish Film Festival Competition Spotlight: Before Twilight
Another entry built on the theme of theatre productions, Before Twilight tells a story of elderly actors who stage Goethe's Faustus at a nursing home.
