Romanian ad market drops
The Romanian ad market will drop by 35% or more in 2009, to a projected 350 million euro, compared with the 2008's 540 million euro local market.
Production: Women´s Temptation goes into post-production
Women´s Temptation, a comedy by director Jiří Vejdělek, moved into post-production following completion of filming on October 19.
CentEast Student Report: Seven Minutes in Heaven Sheva dakot be gan eden (Israel-France-Hungary)
A Transfax Film Prods. (Israel)/ EZ Films (France)/KMH Films (Hungary) production,
CentEast Student Report: The Rainbowmaker
The Georgian directress Nana Dzhordzhadze's enchanting cinema has been for long time an intimate guide for foreigners to her beloved homeland.
CentEast Student Report: The Warsaw Count-Down to Zero
Polish director Paweł Borowski's feature debut was chosen to close the 25th Warsaw International Film Festival.
EFP screens CEE Oscar hopefuls
European Film Promotion ( www.efp-online.com) has selected four Oscar entries from Central Europe among eight films to be screened during AFM in Beverly Hills.
Production: Adrian Sitaru preps For Love With Best Intentions
After Angling/Pescuit sportiv, Adrian Sitaru is preparing his second feature, From Love With Best Intentions/ Din dragoste cu cele mai bune intenţii, a story about growing up in contemporary Romania.
CentEast Student Report: Interview: Yoav Shamir "I want to know what makes a hero"
Participating in the Documentary Competition section of the Warsaw Film Festival, Yoav Shamir's thought provoking documentary "Defamation" sets out to understand the contemporary obsession with anti-Semitism.
CentEast Student Report: Urszula Antoniak: Things around us are extention of who we are
Urszula Antoniak's feature debut Nothing Personal is an intimate portrait of loneliness as a reincarnative state of mind
CentEast Warsaw - Moscow First Project in Russia Supported by EU’s MEDIA International
CentEast Moscow (www.centeast.org) organized by Russian distrib TVINDIE has attracted worldwide attention as the first project in Russia to be supported by the EU's MEDIA International.
New multiplex ceiling collapses
The newly opened Cinamon multiplex in Tallinn, Estonia, suffered a heavy blow to its launch and, potentially, audience figures for some time to come as the soundproof ceiling of its…
CentEast Student Report:: Polish cinema today
In 2005, when the Polish Film Institute was established under a new law covering film production, Polish cinema started a new chapter of of its history.
CentEast holds first Moscow presentations
CentEast, the pitching forum that lauunched five years ago in Warsaw, expanded this year to include a one-day session in Moscow.
Production: Marian Crişan shoots Morgen
Short film Palme d'Or winner Marian Crişan (Megatron, 2008) is in production with his feature debut, Morgen, the story of a Romanian who goes fishing and comes home with a…
Production: Tamás Sas filming Night of the Singles
Tamás Sas (Nine and Half Dates, S.O.S. Love) is in production with a romantic comedy, Night of the Singles (Szinglik éjszakája).
Production: Pigs with Wings films in Poland
Director Anna Kazejak explores the world of Polish soccer fans, where the morals and loyalty have a shape of their own, in Pigs with Wings, currently in production.
Production: Constantin Popescu shoots Principles of Life
Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) is directing Principles of Life with Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)appearing in hi first leading role on screen.
Hungarian box office on the rise
Both cinema attendance and box office showed growth in Hungary through August, 2009.
Bathory preps holiday DVD release
Will lightning strike twice? Bathory, the record-breaking film credited with reviving Slovak interest in domestic films, hopes so, with a holiday edition DVD release planned in Slovakia and the Czech…
Mid Europa Partners acquires Bulgaria's ITV
Mid Europa Partners (www.mideuropa.com) announced that it has completed acquisition of Bulgarian pay-TV operator ITV.
