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…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: Euro Funds Target CEE at CoCo Funding Panel
COTTBUS: CEE producers found reason for hope with presentations by funds from across the continent at the Connecting Cottbus funding panel taking place on 6 November 2014.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: The Daybreak
COTTBUS: Albanian director Gentian Koci will make his feature film debut with the social drama The Daybreak, the first Albanian project ever pitched at Connecting Cottbus.
Thirteen Films Head to Connecting Cottbus 2014
COTTBUS: Two film projects from Hungary, along with films from Estonia, Georgia, Poland, and Romania, are among the thirteen films that made the cut for the coveted pitching slots at…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator 2014 Will Wrap in Leipzig
DOK.Incubator 2014’s six month workshop will wrap in DOK Leipzig which takes place 27 October-2 November 2014
Eurimages Supports 7 CEE Coproductions
STRASBOURG: Eurimages, the Council of Europe's fund for the support of the European film industry has agreed to support 16 feature films in total and one documentary project for a…
Global City Holdings to Become a Major Shareholder in Cineworld Plc.
AMSTERDAM: Global City Holdings, the largest cinema operator in CCE and the second largest in Europe, announced its shares in Cineworld Plc. have now crossed the threshold of 29%.
FNE at Film Festival Cottbus 2014: Programme Lineup Announced
COTTBUS: Twelve feature films from 17 countries will compete for the main prize at the 24th Film Festival Cottbus.
FNE at Jihlava IDFF Emerging Producers 2014: Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic
This year the FNE partners with the Jihlava International Documentary Festival who will be presenting its Emerging Producers project 22-26 October 2014 as a part of the event. The Jihlava…
FNE at Jihlava IDFF Emerging Producers 2014: Bulgaria, Slovenia, Lithuania
This year the FNE partners with the Jihlava International Documentary Festival who will be presenting its Emerging Producers project 22-26 October 2014 as a part of the event. The Jihlava…
Roland Rust Departs Film Festival Cottbus
After working for Film Festival Cottbus since 1992, Roland Rust will move on to address new tasks. He has been the festival's artistic director since 1996 and its director since…
EFP LA Screenings for Nine CEE Films
European Film Promotion will run LA screenings from 29 October to 10 November for nine CEE films and thirteen European films submitted for consideration as Best Foreign Language Film.
Off the Wall Launches European Screenings of Films from Post-Communist Countries
PARIS: The project Off the Wall has selected a group of recent films from post-communist countries that will tour seven European festivals starting with special screenings in Tarragona, Spain on…
Eastern European Film Festival to be Launched in Argentina
Al Este del Plata will bring Eastern European cinema to Buenos Aires and Córdoba from 6 to 9 November 2014 and it will develop into a full-fledged film festival in…
FNE Doc Bloc: DOK.Leipzig features 15 Documentaries Supported by IDF
A total of 15 documentaries that will be presented within the official programme of the 57th DOK.Leipzig, the biggest documentary and animation event in Germany, were developed under or otherwise…
IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund Expands Funding to Eastern Europe
ROTTERDAM: HBF+Europe will provide substantial financial support to European minority coproducers for feature films of filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of the Eastern Europe.
