WARSAW: After six years of development, Jan Komasa started work on a contemporary drama on the Warsaw Uprising.

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP (www.tvp.pl) has launched the first HbbTV applications. The Polish pubcaster started broadcasting in hybrid mode on 10 December 2012 on all it's digital ground channels.

WARSAW: Aleksander Dembski is working on his quasi-documentary I Love You Like Ireland about a Polish band Kobranocka.

WARSAW: Shooting has just started on Warsaw Stories, a feature drama directed by five young Polish filmmakers.

BYDGOSZCZ: Cinematographer Nicolas Bolduc won the Golden Frog for his work with director Kim Nguyen.

WARSAW: Leszek Dawid's drama You Are A God won three Golden Duck awards, the oldest Polish cinema prize assigned by monthly magazine Film at a gala in Warsaw on 26 November 2012.

WROCŁAW: Five American independent films presented at the US IN PROGRESS event during the 3rd American Film Festival (www.americanfilmfestival.pl) will receive Polish support.

WARSAW: Scottish theatre director Lee Mackintosh Jones is making his feature film debut with a Mother, a UK-financed film shot in Poland.

WARSAW: Polish writer/producer/director Agnieszka Trzos is preparing to shoot the drama Not for Your Eyes in Poland and the UK in spring 2013.

WARSAW: The Lubuskie Voivodeship in Eastern Poland became to first area to shut off analogue TV transmitters at the beginning of November 2012, with the entire country scheduled to follow by June 2013.