Czech Production Increased in 2013
KARLOVY VARY: Film production in the Czech Republic rose 23% in 2013, to more than 5 billion CZK with most of the increase due to foreign film production which rose 82% to 2.84 billion CZK.
PRODUCTION: Balej Animated Fish Shop Gets Sneak Peak at KVIFF
KARLOVY VARY: Animated director Jan Balej gave industry pros the first look at the upcoming animated puppet film Little from the Fish Shop which has completed the production phase after 410 days of shooting.
PRODUCTION: Minac Preps Hybrid Fellini Comedy
KARLOVY VARY: Slovak director Matej Mináč in in preproduction with Never Give Up, a hybrid fiction/documentary comedy about a film that was never made.
PRODUCTION: 4 Passports Shooting Two Versions
ZAGREB: Serbian director Mihajlo Jevtić is shooting 4 pasoša/4 Passports a partly animated first-person documentary set against the backdrop of the former Yougoslavia of the last 30 years. The film is a German/Serbian/Croatian coproduction.
FNE Coproduction Meeting at KVIFF 2014: Case Study: I, Olga Hepnarova
PRAGUE: The Czech/Polish/Slovak coproduction I, Olga Hepnarova will move into postproduction after two final days of shooting in the Slovak Tatra Mountains in August 2014, with plans to have the film completed by the end of 2014 and a release in fall 2015.
PRODUCTION: The Yoghurt Syndrome in Development
ZAGREB: The love story/dramedy that Zvonimir Munivrana is developing through Corvus Film will be directed by Goran Rukavina with shooting planned for the first half of 2016.
PRODUCTION: The Network in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Claudiu Mitcu (Two of Us/Noi doi) is in postproduction with the documentary The Network/Reţeaua which he is producing with Ada Solomon and Călin Peter Netzer through his company Parada Film, the same company that produced Child's Pose/Pozitia copilului.
PRODUCTION: WIDE Picks up What Silent Gerda Knows in Development
RIGA: Latvian born Russian writer/director Yevgeni Pashkevich's feature film What Silent Gerda Knows (Ko zina klusā Gerda) has entered development stage with distribution rights already acquired by Paris-based WIDE.
PRODUCTION: Slovenian Horror Film Idyll Goes into Production
LJUBLJANA: Idyll, a Slovenian horror feature film, began shooting already started on 21 June 2014.
PRODUCTION: Do You Love Me in production
VILNIUS: Lithuanian young generation director Lina Lužytė is working on her debut feature film Do You Love Me? (Ar tu mane myli?).
PRODUCtION: Slovak Fairytale Laska na Vlasku Preps for Fall Bow
TRENSIANSKE TEPLICE: Slovakia will have a domestic fairytale in cinemas in October 2014 with the premiere of Laska na Vlasku, a 15th century romance directed by Mariana Cengel Solcanska, and the first Slovak fairytale made in almost 15 years.
PRODUCTION: Dalibor Matanić Preps The High Sun
ZAGREB: Croatian filmmaker Dalibor Matanić will begin shooting the Croatian-Slovenian coproduction The High Sun/Zvizdan on 22 September 2014. The film is now in the location scouting and casting phase.
PRODUCTION: Kätilö finishes filming in Lithuania
VILNIUS: Popular Finnish director Antti J. Jokinen is shooting the feature film Kätilö (Wildeye) in Vilnius, Lithuania. The director is known for his work on The Resident (2011), Puhdistus (2012) and Nightwish: End of an Era (2006).
PRODUCTION: Modris Sets Fall Release
RIGA: The Latvian/Greek/German coproduction Modris, a debut feature by Latvian director Juris Kursietis, is set to be released in Latvia on 24 October 2014.
PRODUCTION: Shooting Underway on Houston, We Have a Problem
LJUBLJANA: Two years after a popular and intriguing teaser posted on YouTube, student Oscar nominee Žiga Virc is shooting his awaited docu-fiction Houston, We Have a Problem, based on the urban myth of Yugoslavia selling its secret space programme to the US in March 1961 followed two months later by president Kennedy announcing that the USA would go to the moon.
PRODUCTION: Muntean Preps One Floor Below
BUCHAREST: Radu Muntean is set for an August- September 2014 shooting on One Floor Below, a Romanian-French-Swedish coproduction.