FNE IDF DocBloc: CEE Docs Online
Selected films from the Silver Eye market are available for online viewing.
Slovak Films Score with MEDIA
BRATISLAVA: Four of the five Slovak films applying to the second call for proposals of the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme will receive development grants, making it the most successful session…
Slovak TV Joins Slovak Film Institute in Digitalisation Project
BRATISLAVA : The Slovak Film Institute (SFI) has embarked on a massive 22.5m EUR national Digital Audiovisual Project with 8.5m EUR provided by its partner in the project, public broadcaster…
Romanian Public TV Opens Subsidiary in Moldova
BUCHAREST: The Romanian public television station TVR has opened a subsidiary in the Republic of Moldova which will independently produce and broadcast TV content and films.
The Eichmann Show Wraps Filming in Lithuania
VILNIUS: The British Broadcasting Company BBC is completing production on the TV movie The Eichmann Show in Vilnius, Lithuania.
GRANTS: Estonia Funds 16 Docs
TALLINN: Sixteen Estonian documentary projects have received funding for 2014.
Croatian MP Film Production Looks Northward
ZAGREB: Croatian producer Igor A. Nola currently has five international coproductions shooting or in postproduction and is expanding into Northern Europe.
FESTIVALS: Lithuanian Films Shine at Scanorama 2014
VILNIUS: Three Lithuanian films will have their premieres at the Scanorama European Film Festival which kicks off its four city tour in Vilnius on 6 November 2014 and runs through…
PRODUCTION: Slovak Schengen Story Looks East for Partners
BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer Wanda Adamik Hrycová (Colette) of Wandal Production is in development with Schengen Story directed by Peter Bebjak.
Lithuanian Director Returns to Crowdfunding
VILNIUS: Young Lithuanian producer/director Romas Zabarauskas is turning to crowdfunding for his third film, You Can’t Escape Lithuania.
Tallinn Gets Third Multiplex
TALLINN: The capital city of Estonia, Tallinn (population 430,000), is to get a third multiplex cinema in 2015. The new cinema will have six screens and a total capacity of…
FESTIVALS: Bratislava IFF Spotlights Slovak Films
BRATISLAVA: Six Slovak films will screen in the Made in Slovakia section of the Bratislava IFF running 7-14 November 2014.
FNE TV: Vladimer Katcharava head of 20 Steps Productions
FNE spoke to Georgian producer Vladimer Katcharava who heads the Tbilisi based production outfit 20 Steps about shooting films in Georgia and his work as a coproducer on Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s…
Czech Sirena Film Coproducing Danish drama Tordenskiold
PRAGUE: Shooting of Danish feature Tordenskiold, which started on Czech locations 13 October 2014, is scheduled to wrap 18 November.
The Passing Bells to premiere on TVP and BBC
WARSAW: A new TVP and BBC Worldwide co-production is an epic drama set during WWI. It will premiere this November both in UK and Poland. The show's Polish producer is…
Gods Tops One Million Admissions
WARSAW: Gods, the winner of the 39th Gdynia Film Festival has racked up 1.149 m admissions within three weeks since its premiere.
PRODUCTION: Šerbedžija Begins Shooting The Liberation of Skopje
ZAGREB: The Macedonian-Croatian-Finnish coproduction The Liberation of Skopje, the first feature directed by the Croatian-born Hollywood star Rade Šerbedžija (Mission Impossible II, Eyes Wide Shut, Before the Rain), started principal…
FESTIVALS: Nine Films Compete in Bratislava
BRATISLAVA: A Czech film and a Slovak-Czech coproduction are among the films screening in the 16th Bratislava IFF competition of first and second films.
CME Announces Continued Revenue Growth
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported another quarter of rising revenues, with 2014 quarter three net revenues up 7 percent over 2013, at 140m USD.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator
CEE documentary filmmakers screen their films at Leipzig's DOK.Incubator before their releases.