PRAGUE: Czech producer Vratislav Šlajer of Bionaut Films company (www.bionaut.cz) and director/screenwriter Miroslav Ondruš are in production with a criminal thriller, Vendeta. The 20 day shoot began 10 March 2011 and will continue through April in Prague and central Bohemia. The film is scheduled for release in the last quarter of 2011, Petr Slavík of distribution company Bontonfilm (www.bontonfilm.cz) announced.

The Polish/Czech coproduction Yuma, a drama set in the early 1990's directed by Piotr Mularuk, is scheduled to go into postproduction in May 2011. The Polish premiere is scheduled for 11 November 2011 in Poland and early 2012 in the Czech Republic.

The Polish/Czech coproduction Yuma, a drama set in the early 1990's directed by Piotr Mularuk, is scheduled to go into postproduction in May 2011. The Polish premiere is scheduled for 11 November 2011 in Poland and early 2012 in the Czech Republic.

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Alexandra Gulea is shooting her first feature Child-Miner (Copil-miner) in Romania until the end of March. Shooting started on 16 February 2011 and will wrap at the end of March. The premiere is set for 2012.

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Alexandra Gulea is shooting her first feature Child-Miner (Copil-miner) in Romania until the end of March. Shooting started on 16 February 2011 and will wrap at the end of March. The premiere is set for 2012.

BRATISLAVA: The Corpse Must Die, screenwriter Jozef Paštéka's directorial debut,is set to hit Slovak cinemas after its September premiere. Initially, the opening night was scheduled for 31 March 2011, but had to be cancelled due to lack of funding for distribution, as well as problems with the audio.

BUCHAREST: Romanian director Ruxandra Zenide (Ryna) is currently developping her second feature, The Edge of Happiness, the story of a girl, Felicia, who arrives in Geneva in the autumn of 1989, hoping to find her mother who is in a coma after an accident. Felicia leads her own investigation in order to find the truth about this accident, loosing herself between revelations and paranoia.

WARSAW: Czech director David Ondricek is in production with In The Shadow, a Czech-Polish-Slovak coproduction which began shooting on 5 March 2011 in Prague. Polish cinematographer Adam Sikora is the DoP.

WARSAW: Czech director David Ondricek is in production with In The Shadow, a Czech-Polish-Slovak coproduction which began shooting on 5 March 2011 in Prague. Polish cinematographer Adam Sikora is the DoP.

VILNIUS: Young Lithuanian film director Dovilė Gasiūnaitė is working on her first feature film, Narcissus, a modern-day version of the ancient Greek myth.

WARSAW: Warsaw Arrangement (Układ Warszawski ), a crime comedy series about a Warsaw family with members on both sides of the law directed by Katarzyna Adamik and Łukasz Jaworski, is shooting in Warsaw. The series is planned for 15 episodes and is fully produced by Polish private broadcaster TVN (www.tvn.pl).

WARSAW: Polish commercial broadcaster TVN is casting the lead in its film production Fusbal, the story of a young provincial football player whose strength of character helps him overcome obstacles and go on to a great career. TVN is looking for a young athlete from the Silesian region.

WARSAW: Without Secrets (Bez Tajemniec), the Polish production of HBO's hit series about psychotherapy In Treatment, wrapped shooting on 8 March 2011 and is in postproduction. The series filmed 25 episodes of 45 minutes each on a 94 day schedule. The series will premiere in fall 2011.

BUCHAREST: Romanian director Andrei Zincă is expected to start shooting the adaptation of Argentinian playwright Mario Diament's Blind Datein May-June 2011, Bogdan Moncea, Marketing Manager of Castel Film (www.castelfilm.ro) told FNE. Shooting was due to start in October 2010.

BUCHAREST: Italian director Renzo Martinelli is preparing September 11, his second collaboration with the Romania's Castel Film (www.castelfilm.ro) starring American actor Harvey Keitel. Martinelli previously worked with Castel Film on Sword of War (2009) starring Rutger Hauer and F. Murray Abraham.

BUCHAREST: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance wrapped shooting on 23 February 2011 in Romania where it was filmed for all but two weeks of shooting in Turkey. The first big American production to be shot in Romania since Cold Mountain in 2002, the 3D film started shooting on 1 November 2010 at Castel Film (www.castelfilm.ro).