PRODUCTION: She Is a Harbour Starts Shooting
BRATISLAVA: Iveta Grófová has begun filming her second feature, a Slovak/Czech/Hungarian coproduction entitled She Is a Harbour.
PRODUCTION: Award Winning Animator Edmunds Jansons in Production on Pigtail and Mr. Sleeplessness
RIGA: Award-winning animator Edmunds Jansons is working on his new short film Pigtail and Mr. Sleeplessness / Bize un Neguļa about a six year old girl known as Pigtail who together with her shaggy friend from her closet Mr. Sleeplessness, come up with a “brilliant” plan to return her baby brother Leo to the amusement park where they believe he was bought.
PRODUCTION: Romanian/Bulgarian/French Debut Thriller Dogs Begins Filming
BUCHAREST: Dogs/Câini, the debut feature of Bogdan Mirică, started shooting on 27 July 2015. It is produced by Romania's 42 Km Film in coproduction with France's EZ Films and Bulgaria's Argo Film.
PRODUCTION: Pevec in Postproduction with Feature Doc Home
LJUBLJANA: Award-winning Slovenian director Metod Pevec is completing work on his feature documentary Home (Dom) produced by Danijel Hocevar for Vertigo and supported by the Slovenian Film Center.
PRODUCTION: Radu Mihaileanu’s The History of Love Moves to Romania
BUCHAREST: After shooting one and a half months in Montréal and one week in New York, the English-language debut of the Romanian-born France-based filmmaker Radu Mihaileanu, The History of Love, moves to Romania starting 25 July 2015.
PRODUCTION: CANAL+ Poland Produces Palkowski Crime Series in Poland
WARSAW: CANAL+ Poland has commissioned a 10-episode crime series entitled Belfer (Teacher) starring Maciej Stuhr. TVN is executive producing the series.
PRODUCTION: Nae Caranfil Preps 6.9 on the Richter Scale
BUCHAREST: Acclaimed Romanian writer/director Nae Caranfil will start shooting 6.9 on the Richter Scale / 6,9 pe scara Richter on 31 August 2015. The film is a Romanian/Bulgarian/Hungarian coproduction with Cristian Mungiu producing through Mobra Films and Jelio Jelev producing through Bulgaria's Jelfilm and Hungary's Cinemafilm, is a contemporary comedy dealing with people’s anxiety about earthquakes.
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Director Popzlatev Shooting Wreckage
SOFIA: Award-winning director Peter Popzlatev is completing shooting on his new feature film Wreckage.
PRODUCTION: Georgian French Documentary The Things in Production
TBILISI: Nino Gogua is currently in production with The Things, a documentary about the relationship between the Georgian refugees of the Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008 and the things they took with them when leaving their homes.
PRODUCTION: Radu Muntean Develops Parenting Project
BUCHAREST: Radu Muntean is working on a script for a feature film about parenting. The script should be completed by the end of 2015.
PRODUCTION : Nemec biopic The Wolf of Royal Vineyard Street in Preproduction
BRATISLAVA: Czech New Wave director Jan Němec is in preproduction with his autobiographical filmThe Wolf of Royal Vineyard Street.
PRODUCTION: Georgian German Coproduction The Dazzling Light Of Sunset in Postproduction
TBILISI: Salomé Jashi is in postproduction with The Station, a 90-minute documentary about the sole journalist of Jikha TV, a two-man broadcasting station in a small Georgian town.
PRODUCTION Partisan Priest Is Ready for Opening Night
MARIBOR: Documentary feature film Partisan Priest has finished shooting and is ready for its cinema and television premiere in autumn 2015 following the opening night at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz.
PRODUCTION Feature Length Doc 85 Grams in Postproduction
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Ion Gnatiuc and Petre Matei are currently in postproduction with 85 Grams/85 grame, a 90-minute documentary about a Romanian historian and activist who is fighting for the rights of the Holocaust Roma survivors.
PRODUCTION Păunescu Produces Giuseppe Tornatore’s Doc on Ennio Morricone
BUCHAREST: The Sight of Music/ Lo sguardo della musica by Giuseppe Tornatore, a docu-fiction produced by Bobby Păunescu through Mandragora Group in coproduction with Tornatore’s Piano B Produzioni is currently shooting with the premiere set for 2016.
PRODUCTION: Czech Debut Fish Blood in Development
PRAGUE: The Czech debut Fish Blood/Rybí krev is currently in development. It is directed and written by Ondrej Provaznik and produced by Jakub Mahler and Tomas Michalek for the production company MasterFilm.