PRODUCTION: Adina Pintilie in Preparation with Touch Me Not
BUCHAREST: Adina Pintilie is planning to shoot her debut feature in Romania and Germany in June-August 2015.
PRODUCTION: All the Best in Preparation
ZAGREB: Snjezana Tribuson's romantic musical comedy All the Best is set for shooting in February 2015 and is expected to hit Croatian cinemas next Christmas.
PRODUCTION: Estonia Preps Polar Boy
TALLINN: Estonian writer/director Anu Aun is working on The Polar Boy, the tale of a talented and promising young photographer who fakes bipolar disorder in order to avoid a prison sentence and discovers he must leave his destructive girlfriend.
PRODUCTION: Janis Nords Develops Survivalist
TALLLINN: Latvian director Janis Nords is writing Survivalist, a drama of a schoolmaster who fakes his own death to escape mounting personal and financial pressures.
PRODUCTION: The Tatooist Ready to Begin Financing
BRATISLAVA: Slovak writer/director Martin Repka is completing the third draft of the Slovak/Czech film The Tatooist with cowriter Agda Bavi Pain as the film prepares to move into the financing phase in 2015.
PRODUCTION: Olympic Flame Race in Development
TALLINN: Estonian director Ain Maeots is developing The Flame Race: 1980, a comedy on the saga of the transport of the Olympic flame from Moscow to Tallinn.
PRODUCTION: Polish Wounded Beast in Development
TALLINN: Polish advertising and marketing company ADHD Warsaw continues its move into film production with The Wounded Beast directed by Piotr Trzaskalski.
PRODUCTION: Puipa in Postproduction with The Garden of Eden
TALLINN: Algimants Puipa has completed filming on the Lithuanian drama The Garden of Eden.
PRODUCTION: Latvian Finnish Chronicles of Melanie in Production
TALLINN: Director Viestur Kairish takes on the topic of the deportation of 40,000 Baltic citizens to Siberia in 1941 in the drama Chronicles of Melanie, planned for completion in 2015.
PRODUCTION: Tallinn and Thessaloniki Winner Kids from the East
TALLINN: Czech producer Michal Kracmer might need to stop pitching his new project Kids from the East for the time being. He has already won two accreditations to the Cannes Producers Network, most recently at the Baltic Event.
PRODUCTION: Yet to Rule in Development
BUCHAREST: Mihaela Popescu’s debut feature, Yet to Rule/În pronunţare produced by Alexandru Teodorescu through Saga Film, will begin shooting in spring 2016.
PRODUCTION: Pakalnina Rises with Dawn
TALLINN: Latvian auteur and producer Laila Pakalnina is in postproduction with Dawn, a Latvian/Estonian/Polish coproduction which participated in the Baltic Event Works in Progress presentation on 26 November 2014.
PRODUCTION: Banat in Preproduction
BUCHAREST: Italian director/screenwriter Adrian Valerio is in preparation with his first feature Banat, a coproduction between Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia set for shooting in 2015.
PRODUCTION: Dinu Tănase Develops Who Killed Christmas
BUCHAREST: Dinu Tănase’s Who Killed Christmas, a drama about cruelty and violence in the countryside, is set for shooting in November 2015.
PRODUCTION: Otar Iosseliani Shoots Winter Song
TBILISI: Winter Song/Chant d'hiver, the new feature of the acclaimed Otar Iosseliani, is moving to France for filming in December following shooting in Georgia 16 - 24 October 2014.
PRODUCTION: Cristina Iacob Preps Sequel to #Selfie
BUCHAREST: With her second film, A Gift for You/Un dar pentru tine, expected to be broadcast on TV in December, Cristina Iacob is in preproduction with a sequel to her successful debut feature, #Selfie, entitled How to Get Married in 3 Days/Cum să te măriţi în trei zile.