SOFIA: A Hollywood film based on the video game of the same name Company of Heroes is spending the month of March filming in Bulgaria.

BUCHAREST: Gabriel Achim (Adalbert's Dream/Visul lui Adalbert) is developing Raw and Cooked, a political black comedy fantasy about the last days of Nicolae Ceauşescu.

The story takes place on 22 December 1989, when an engineer decides to save Ceauşescu and his wife from the lynch mob and to help them cross the border.

ZAGREB: Zvonimir Juric is developing The Reaper, a drama with four stories connected by an accidental death, produced by Ankica Juric Tilic and Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr).

PRAGUE: Producer, screenwriter, DOP and director Tomas Vorel is in production with To the Woods/ Cesta do lesa , a romantic comedy celebrating the woods, water, and hillsides, and paying tribute to farmers and the natural life.

WARSAW: Polish director Wojciech Smarzowski is following his 2011 critically acclaimed drama Rose with a crime drama, 7 Days, now filming in Warsaw.

ZAGREB: Vlatka Vorkapic is shooting Free, a 50 minute documentary for the Croatian company FADE IN Production (www.fadein.hr).

BERLIN: A new Georgian Ukrainian German coproduction Ursus the Caucasian Brown Bear is set to shoot in the Ukraine and Georgia in July and August of 2012. The 3.3m USD coproduction goes into pre-production next month.

PRAGUE: Czech producer/director Vaclav Marhoul is adapting the bestselling novelThe Painted Bird, by Polish-American authorJerzy Kosinski.

BUCHAREST: Cristian Pascariu's first documentary and first long film My House on Wheels will follow two truck drivers, focusing on the life, the stories and the untold secrets of a profession which we usually know from a few stereotypes.

"There is a folklore of the road which must not go to waste. Their world is made up of words, of stories, of fleeting hours and space, and in time, this world will fade away," Pascariu commented in the Director's note. He also wrote the film.

ZAGREB: Prague-based Croatian director Pavo Marinković is shooting his first documentary, a Croatian-Czech co-production between Mitropa and 8Heads Production (www.8heads.com).

WARSAW: Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski (Four Nights With Anna and Essential Killing) is writing a script adaptation of the famous war novel Squadron 303 for a large scale costume co-production between Poland, England, Germany and the Czech Republic.

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Marian Crişan (Morgen) is currently filming Iguanas/Iguanele in northern Romania. The 30 day shoot will last through early March.

BUCHAREST: The second season of the series In Treatment/In derivă started shooting in Bucharest on 6 February 2012 with the premiere on HBO Romania (www.hbo.ro) set for the end on 2012.

TBILISI: Three coproductions and 21 national film projects are competing for funding in 2012 from the Georgian National Film Center (www.gnfe.ge).

BUCHAREST: Writer/director Florin Piersic Jr. (Fix Alert) is in post-production with Killing Time, a film noir comedy about two hit men waiting in an empty apartment for their next target.

ZAGREB: Goran Rukavina is in postproduction with Children of the Fall about a man waiting for his missing wife, produced by Zvonimir Munivrana and Corvus Film (www.corvusfilm.hr).