FNE at When East Meets West/Trieste FF: WEMW Announces Winners
TRIESTE: Wojciech Staron's Brothers won the HBO Europe Award for the best project in Last Stop Trieste, a new section of When East Meets West pitching market running from 18…
FNE at When East Meets West/Trieste FF: Interviews with Cristina Sain and Alessandro Gropplero
TRIESTE: Cristina Sain, the president of Trieste Film Festival told FNE that the financial situation of the festival has improved in the last few years, while Alessandro Gropplero, who runs…
New Distribution Manager for CEE and Russia Appointed by Turner Broadcasting System
WARSAW: Turner Broadcasting System has appointed Dominik Tzimas as the new Distribution Manager for Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Tzimas will work in the Warsaw office.
FESTIVALS: CEE Films in the Panorama Section of Berlinale
BERLIN: Romanian and Lithuanian coproductions, Why Me? directed by Tudor Giurgiu and The Summer of Sangailé by Alanté Kavaïté, as well as a Czech documentary Daniel’s World by Veronika Liskova,…
When East Meets West Kicks Off
TRIESTE: Along with 22 projects in development selected for pitching, the 5th edition of When East Meets West Trieste (18-20 January) is launching two new initiatives dedicated to films in…
FESTIVALS: New CEE Films Selected for Berlinale
BERLIN: Polish minority coproduction The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills and a Slovak/Czech coproduction Goat/Koza have been selected for the Forum section of the Berlin Film…
Projects from Bulgaria and Georgia Selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market
BERLIN: Two projects by Ivaylo Markov and the duo Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross are among 36 feature film projects from 28 countries selected for the 12th annual Berlinale Co-Production…
FESTIVALS: Trieste Film Festival Announces Lineup
TRIESTE: The 26th edition of Trieste Film Festival will take place from 16 to 22 January with 37 films screening in three competitive sections.
Eurimages Funds Eight CEE Coproductions
STRASBOURG: Eurimages decided support for 15 coproductions including the new films of Cristi Puiu, Kristijonas Vildziunas, Ralitza Petrova, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Emin Alper and Ümit Köreken at its 137th meeting…
CEE Films Nominated for Oscars and Golden Globes
Ida, Tangerines and Corn Island are among the nine foreign films shortlisted from a number of 83 originally submitted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Ida and Tangerines are…
CONSTELLATIONS International Residential Master Class – OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS!
Constellations is an original Master Class in two 4-day Modules for those professionals who are concerned with the major artistic decisions - producers, screenwriters, authors-directors, new media designers, script consultants…
WHEN EAST MEETS WEST: 22 projects selected
When East Meets West (WEMW) 22 projects selected for the Trieste co-production forum from a record number of 285 submissions.
CEE Films Head to Sundance
VILNIUS: Lithuanian and Croatian films will be represented at the 2015 edition of Sundance.
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Igor Stankovic
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
Global City Holdings Net Profit Falls
WARSAW: Exhibitor and real estate company Global City Holdings posted three month and nine month declines in net profits in its interim statement for 2014.
Szumowska and Hocevar to Choose Shooting Stars
Slovenian producer Danijel Hocevar and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska will serve on the five-member jury selection the 2015 European Shooting Stars for European Film Promotion.
French Arizona Productions Pipes Funding into CEE
COTTBUS: Paris-based Arizona Productions is solidifying its reputation as an art house producer of films from the CEE region. Producer Guillaume de Seille, attending the recent Connecting Cottbus pitching forum…
FNE at Cottbus 2014: Corrections Class Gets Top Honours
COTTBUS: The 24th edition of the Cottbus Film Festival (4-9 November 2014) wrapped on the eve of the 25th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: Hungary and Turkey Win CoCo 2014 Pitch Prizes
COTTBUS: The personal story of a young woman’s confrontation with the specter of cancer, A Coat of Gold directed by Cristina Grosan and produced by Dora Nedeczky, won the Connecting…
WEMW launches First Cut Lab, a new tailor made workshop for features in editing phase
On the occasion of its forthcoming 5th edition, When East Meets West launches First Cut Lab (FCL), a programme designed for long feature films in the editing phase from Eastern…
