Losers Wins Bulgarian Film Academy Awards
SOFIA: Ivailo Hristov’s ironical black and white film Losers (produced by Pro Film) won six awards including film of the year, topping the list of fourteen feature films from 2015…
FNE at Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival 2016: Balcony and Hordur Take Top Prizes
WARSAW: The Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival, which took place in Warsaw 1-12 June 2016, gave its main prizes to films from Germany and the UK. The juries of the…
FNE at Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival 2016: Interview with Festival Director Anna Stadnik
WARSAW: Artistic Director of Cinema in Sneakers Film Festival, which concluded on 12 June 2016, talks exclusively with FNE on how we can raise better young viewers and why Scandinavian…
TVP Launches Call for TV Series
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP launched a new search aimed at finding original series ideas for its channels.
PRODUCTION: Frozen Ignat in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Director/producer Dinu Tănase (At the End of the Line, Studioul Cinematografic București) is in postproduction with Frozen Ignat (working title), a drama set to be released in spring 2017.
FESTIVALS: Gdynia Honours Kieslowski with New Competition
GDYNIA: The 41st Gdynia Film Festival, which will take place 19-24 September 2016, is honouring the 20th anniversary of the death of Krzysztof Kieslowski with a competition of one minute…
FNE at Valletta IFF 2016: Conference Cinema of Small Nations Kicks Off
MALTA: A conference entitled The Cinema of Small Nations is being organised by the Film Grain Foundation in conjunction with the Malta Film Commission and will be held in Valletta,…
FNE at MIFF 2016: Films from Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Poland Score Competition Slots
MOSCOW: The 38th edition of the Moscow International Film Festival will go on from 23-30 June presenting a vast selection of programmes and films despite running two days less than…
Bodo Kox and Nancy Spielberg Receive Mazovia Funding Support
WARSAW: The Mazovia Film Fund has announced that Bodo Kox and Nancy Spielberg will shoot their next films with the support of the fund.
EAVE Workshop Heads to Lithuania
VILNIUS: The second workshop of the EAVE Producers Workshop programme 2016 will take place in Druskininkai, Lithuania, 13-20 June 2016. The workshop, which is organised in partnership with the Lithuanian…
PRODUCTION: Wojciech Smarzowski Finishes Shooting Volyhnia
WARSAW: It's a wrap for Wojciech Smarzowski's new history drama Volyhnia set to premiere in October 2016.
PRODUCTION: Atanas Hristoskov in Postproduction with Eighteen
SOFIA: Atanas Hristoskov’s low-budget second feature film Eighteen is in postproduction.
FNE Teams Up with UNIC For EU Cinema Policy News
WARSAW: FNE has teamed up with the Brussels based team of the International Union of Cinemas (UNIC) to bring you regular updates on EU cinema policies that impact all industry…
FNE TV: Georgian Cash Rebate David Vashadze GNFC
FNE asked David Vashadze about Georgia’s new film production incentive scheme offering cash rebate of 20% for qualified productions launched this year and the positive advantages on offer for filming…
FNE at Valletta Film Festival 2016: Second Edition Kicks Off in Malta Capitol
VALLETTA: The second edition of the Valletta Film Festival (VFF), organised by the Film Grain has already kicked off in the Maltese capitol with a programme of 42 international films…
Jack The Ripper filming in Lithuania
VILNIUS: German production company Pantaleon Pictures GmbH (producers Dan Maag, Matthias Schweighöfer, Marco Beckmann) and local coproducer Lithuanian Film Studioio are shooting the German TV film Jack The Ripper about…
International Productions Bring Economic Impact to Malta
VALLETTA: The latest international production to film in Malta, a high end international TV series about important historical wrecks, had an 8 m EUR spend in Malta.
Bulgaria and Slovakia Appoint New EAVE Ambassadors
LUXEMBOURG: Bulgarian producer Magdelena Ilieva and Slovak head of the National Cinematographic Center Alexandra Strelkova have been selected to the EAVE National Representatives Network.
FESTIVALS: Nine Films Compete at Animafest Zagreb
ZAGREB: Nine feature animated films are competing in the main competition of Animafest Zagreb which runs 6-11 June 2016.
