FNE at KVIFF 2011: Connecting Cottbus Adds Postproduction Award
(KARLOVY VARY) The 13th edition of Connecting Cottbus (3-4 November 2011, www.connecting-cottbus.de) will introduce a new award for postproduction services under incoming artistic director Bernd Bruder.
FNE - IDF DocBlock: Films Have Become Illustrations: Interview With Michal Marczak
The upcoming Karlovy Vary IFF will present several documentary films from Eastern Europe, many of them in competition. Among them is the Polish documentary film At the Edge of Russia…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Mother's Paradise
Shortly after The Light Thief (2010), the Kyrgyz filmmaker Aktan Arym Kubat presents a new feature film, Mother's Paradise.
CME Completes Bontonfilm Acquisition
HAMILTON, BERMUDA: Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (CME) closed its previously announced transaction to acquire 100% of the shares of Bontonfilm a.s. on 30 June 2011.
MIFF 2011: Moscow Business Square focuses on Baltics, Georgia and CIS countries
MOSCOW: MIFF's business platform Moscow Business Square (27-29 June 2011) chose to focus on the Baltics, Georgia and CIS countries in its third edition giving Russian producers and film professionals…
MIFF 2011: Russian programme director Irina Pavlova, New Directions of Russian Cinema
MOSCOW: MIFF`s Russian film programme will present over 150 films this year screening all the recent features, docs and animation as well as a selection of shorts. For most foreigners…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Punk's Not Dead
Punk's Not Dead /Pankot ne e mrtov by Vladimir Blaževski, which has its international premiere in the East of the West competition of the Karlovy Vary IFF, is a punchy…
MIFF 2011: Moscow’s Programme Director, Kirill Razlogov: Big Programme, Big Ambitions
MOSCOW: Moscow International Film Festival (http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/eng/) programme director Kirill Razalogov cannot be accused of lacking ambition. He presides this year over a programme that can only be described as vast…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Heart’s Boomerang
One of the most outstanding young Russian directors, Nikolay Khomeriki, is showing his latest feature, Heart's Boomerang in competition in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Generation P
The Russian born American filmmaker Victor Ginzburg presents the international premiere of his Russian box-office hit, Generation P (www.generationp.ru), in the East of the West competition at Karlovy Vary IFF…
Moscow IFF Competition: Postcard
Kaneto Shindô, age 99 and a Moscow IFF veteran, returns to the festival where he first presented his films 50 years ago, and where he received a Lifetime Achievement award…
PRODUCTION: Destiny in development
The Czech Production company Central European Production and Locations (www.praguelocations.com) signed an coproduction agreement with the Chinese production company V.V .Hand Productions of Beijing to co-produce the action adventure film…
MIFF 2011: Moscow Film Festival opens with star studded gala
{mosimage}MOSCOW: The 33 Moscow International Film Festival (www.moscowfilmfestival.ru) got off to a star studded start with the world premier of Hollywood blockbuster Transformers: Dark of the Moon on 23 June…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: TV Market in Transition
BUDAPEST: The 21st year of the Central and East European TV market, DISCOP Budapest (www.discop.com), wrapped an era and moved into its next phase: young maturity. The 2011 market (which…
Moscow IFF Competition: Serdtsa Bumerang
Serdtsa Bumerang is the third feature film by Nikolay Khomeriki.
Moscow IFF: Chapiteau-show
The young Russian director of Chapiteau-show Sergei Loban has developed something of a cult following.
Moscow IFF Competition: The Other Family / La Otra Familia
The notable Mexican director Gustavo Loza screens his dramatic film The Other Family, for which he also wrote the screenplay, in the Moscow International Film Festival.
Moscow IFF Competition: The Waves/Las Olas
The Waves is the first feature fiction film of Alberto Morais, whose credits include several short films and the documentary Un lugar en el cine.
Moscow IFF Competition: Montevideo
Montevideo, Taste of a Dream, the first feature directed by the popular actor Dragan Bjelogrlić, has been a big hit in Serbia: 515,000 viewers, (twice as many as Avatar) since…
FNE at DISCOP Budapest 2011: License Market Signature Launches in Poland
BUDAPEST: DISCOP founder Patrick Jucaud started the second day of DISCOP Budapest (21-24 June 2011, www.discop.com) with another major announcement: the launch of Signature, a licensing market, in Poland, followed…
