Renowned for his original talent and unconventional style, Silver Bear-winning Bulgarian director Georgi Djulgerov (Advantage, 1977) is in postproduction on his 15th feature, Buffer Zone. The young company Front Film , run by the director’s ex-students, Nadejda Koseva and Svetla Tsotsorkova, was awarded with 472,430 EUR by the Bulgarian National Film Center for the project.

BUCHAREST: The National Film Institute, founded via emergency ordinance on 26 June, could serve as a production company and  participate in the production grants system under the terms of a proposed a bill now headed for public debate in parliament.

WROCLAW: Three provocative upcoming films are screening during the T-Mobile New Horizons fest Indie thriller Hardkor Disko, the funny and absurd Kebab and Horoscope and the daringly sensual Nude Area. Love In 15 Fragments.

WROCLAW: New Polish works in progress are being showcased to international film professionals during Polish Days at T-Mobile New Horizons IFF.

WROCŁAW: Ireneusz Grzyb and Aleksandra Gowin are at work on a love triangle story that explores the power of auteur cinema and creates an intimate story about complicated romance.

WROCŁAW: In his new drama Wojciech Smarzowski takes on the work of Jerzy Pilch to explore the true image of addiction.

WARSAW: After years of planning, Krzysztof Krauze and his wife Joanna Kos-Krauze will start shooting Birds Sing in Kigali this fall. The film follows a young Tutsi girl and a Polish ornithologist who saves her life during the slaughter in Rwanda in 1994. The script is based on a novel by Wojciech Albiński, Which of You Committed Genocide?

Robert Adrian Pejo, the Romanian-born writer-director who won praise for Dallas Among Us in 2005 and for The Camera Murderer at Karlovy Vary in 2010, has announced he is shooting his fourth feature, Paw, recounting the life of a legendary rescue dog Mancs, in Hungary.

BUCHAREST: The second feature of Florin Şerban (If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle) starts shooting on 12 August. 

WARSAW: The director of Mundial. The Highest Stakes is taking on the world of male volleyball in The Team.

The team behind crowdfunding pioneer Iron Sky has announced they have raised more than 139,000 EUR via the same source, using IndieGoGo, to develop Moon Nazi sequel Iron Sky II – The Coming Race, scheduled to start production in early 2015.

BUCHAREST: Acclaimed Romanian New Wave writer/director Cristi Puiu, has announced a shoot date of November 1for Sierra-Nevada, a feature about a family reunion.

SOFIA: Ivan Nichev has started production on the Bulgarian-Israeli coproduction Concert for the Survivals at Nu Boyana Film Studios (www.nuboyana.com) where the production has planned 12 shooting days 

BUDAPEST: György Pálfi (Taxidermia, Hukkle) has moved into the final stages of preproduction for a September 2013 start date on the mega-production Toldi.

BRATISLAVA:  Seven Ravens, a Czech-Slovak coproduction based on a classic fairy tale by Pavol Dobšinský, will start to shoot in July and August 2013 in western Slovakia. 

WARSAW: HBO commission 35 episodes of the Polish version of the hit title.