GRANTS: Lithuanian Development Funding for 2014
VILNIUS: Nine feature film projects are among the recipients of 205,000 EUR in development funding announced by the Lithuanian Film Center.
PRODUCTION: Aferim! Set for Shooting Mid-June
BUCHAREST: Radu Jude's 1.4 m EUR film Aferim! has received 180,000 EUR from Film und Medienstiftung in advance of its mid-June 2014 production start.
FESTIVALS: European Film Festival in Bucharest Celebrates Greece
BUCHAREST: The 18th edition of the European Film Festival will take place in Bucharest between 9 and 15 May 2014 and in Târgu-Mureş between 16 and 18 May, showing 42…
FNE at Finale Plzen: To the Sea
PLZEN: Expect intense interest when leading young Czech and international actor Jiří Mádl (Borgia, Four Suns, Colette) makes his directorial and scriptwriting debut with To See a Sea (Pojedeme k…
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Eight Projects Selected for DOK.Incubator
The Institute of Documentary Film introduces the projects which will participate in the 2014 edition of DOK.Incubator.
FNE at Finale Plzen: Honeymoon
PLZEN: Honeymoon (Libanky), nominated for the Czech Lion in five categories and the winner of the Best Director Award at Karlovy Vary IFF starts the competition roll-out at the 27th…
FNE at Finale Plzen: Colette
PLZEN: The first day of competition at the 27th Finale Plzen national festival of Czech and Slovak films offers up Milan Cieslar’s English-lingo Colette.
FESTIVALS: Krakow Reveals Documentary Competition
KRAKOW: Twenty films will compete in the documentary competition of the 54th Krakow Film Festival, which runs 25 May to 1 June 2014.
Cent-Eastern European projects presented in China
BEIJING: Eleven Works-in-progress from Center and Eastern Europe will be presented during the Beijing Film Market.
FESTIVALS: Polish drama IDA Wins at goEast
The Polish black-and-white drama Ida took the the ŠKODA Film Award at goEast film festival on 15 April 2014.
Lithuania Announces 2014 Grants
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian Film Centre will distribute 2,082,368 EUR to 40 projects in 2014.
Romanian Public TV Finances Seven Films
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Television Society/Societatea Română de Televiziune (SRTv) will support the funding of seven feature films including the next features of Nae Caranfil, Florin Şerban and Igor Cobileanski.
FESTIVALS: Stratos Wins Best Film at Cyprus Film Days
NICOSIA: The 12th Cyprus Film Days International Film Festival held in Limassol and Nicosia 4-13 April ended with Cyprus-born film director Yiannis Economides winning the Best Film award for Stratos.
Romania Launches Save the Big Screen Campaign
BUCHAREST: Romanian Film Promotion and Transilvania IFF have launched the national campaign Save the Big Screen/Salvaţi marele ecran consisting of documenting existing old cinemas, a documentary, seminars, a special screening…
Field of Dogs Distributed in Italy
WARSAW: Field of Dogs, a video-art para documentary from Lech Majewski, will premiere in Italy on 17 April 2014.
TVN Stock Buyback Minimizes Losses
WARSAW: Polish private broadcaster TVN will spend up to 500 m PLN to buy back a portion of its stocks to take them off the market.
Estonia gets a new Midiplex
TALLINN: Pärnu, Estonia’s fifth largest City with a population of 45,000, is to open its first multiscreen cinema in the City centre in May, 2014.
Romania Develops VOD Platforms
BUCHAREST: Platforms for video-on-demand are developing in terms of application but the offer of new Romanian titles is still scarce.
FNE Interviews ANOMALIA Founder David Tousek
FNE speaks with David Tousek, founder of the Czech animation workshop ANOMALIA which is accepting Applications for its summer workshop through 15 April 2014. Participants should have at least one…
Bollywood Kicks off Warsaw Shooting
WARSAW: Bollywood thriller Kick starts shooting on 11 April 2014 in Warsaw.
