Poland's Rozbitek Institute Building Bridges for International Projects
Serving a growing role in the Poznan region's major annual film and music event, the Rozbitek Institute will soon be mentoring filmmakers, writers and composers, based on the US Sundance…
PRODUCTION: Šeregi Prepping Football Drama ZG80
ZAGREB: Igor Šeregi’s debut feature retraces the story of one of the greatest rivalries in soccer history, between the Bad Blue Boys, the supporters of football club Dinamo, Zagreb, Croatia…
PRODUCTION: Svěrák Music Fairy Tale Three Brothers Shooting
PRAGUE: Czech Oscar winner Jan Svěrák is in production on the music fairy tale Tři bratři (Three Brothers), based on the script by his father, Zdeněk, who has incorporated music…
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Mark the Fall of the Wall with Rabbits at Prague's Světozor
PRAGUE: The disarming, award-winning Polish documentary Rabbit a la Berlin screens at Kino Světozor (www.kinosvetozor.cz/en/) in a celebration of the end of the Berlin Wall, which ironically gave the bunnies…
PRODUCTION: Czech Village Tale Nowhere Shooting in Hills
Miroslav Krobot's original script chronicling the pitfalls of love in a small Moravian town, Nowhere (Díra u Hanušovic), is filming in the Czech Republic's Jeseniky mountains, which form and shape…
PRODUCTION: America, Here We Come Shooting
BUCHAREST: Răzvan Săvescu's debut feature is filming in Romania through 17 August and will then incorporate US locations in New York for 10 days.
Croatia's Juricic Headed for EFP Producers Lab Toronto
The head of Croatia's Nukleus Film, launched in 2009 and expanded into Slovenia three years later, will represent Eastern Europe at the European Film Promotion Producers Lab in Toronto September…
Cinema City to Launch IKEA Lublin Multiplex
A nine-screen digital Cinema City Multiplex with cutting-edge 3D projection is being built within the IKEA center in Lublin, company officials have announced. The project, in a shopping mall featuring…
EU Approval Unblocks Czech Film Grants Process
Czech producers, distributors, cinemas and festivals are rushing to apply for grants from the newest iteration of the state Cinematography Fund following a European Commission ruling Tuesday approving the system's…
Big-Budget Czech Historic Films on the Rise
Following two decades of mainly small-scale, personal films, Czech producers are moving into larger projects celebrating epic historic tales set in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the First Republic and…
Outstanding Regional Work Feted in Vienna
VIENNA: Daria Onyshchenko's nostalgic Eastalgia will open the second edition of the nine-day LET'S CEE FF, launching 13 September in Vienna.
PRODUCTION: Dedictvi or Kurvaseneříká Wraps filming
PRAGUE: The two-month shoot in Prague and Brno of comedy Dedictví or Kurvaseneříka (The Heritage 2) has wrapped, following up on the film's first part
PRODUCTION: World Is Mine to Wrap in August
BUCHAREST: Nicolae Constantin Tănase's debut feature is a 100% independent production between Tudor Giurgiu's Libra Film (librafilm.net) and Radu Stancu's deFilm (defilm.ro), with premiere set for summer 2014. The film…
PRODUCTION: Czech 90's Story Wraps
The creative team behind Walking Too Fast (Pouta) - director Radim Špaček, screenwriter Ondřej Štindl, DoP Jaromír Kačer and producer Vratislav Šlajer - have wrapped two months of shooting for…
Bulgarian Admissions Up
SOFIA: With a 40% jump in admissions to 2,716,090 and box office up nearly 43%, at 11,691799 EUR, for the first six months of 2013 compared to last year, Bulgarian…
Croatia Funds Docus and Michael Jackson Co-Production
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre has granted 894,117 EUR/6,714,410 HRK in its latest session.
Production: Csaba Fazekas's Swing Shooting
BUDAPEST: Csaba Fazekas (Boldog születésnapot!) is shooting his second feature, Swing, a musical comedy inspired by Hungarian hits. The story is driven by three desperate women who join together to…
First Caucasus Docu Fest Seeks Filmmakers
TBILISI: Ciné-DOC, the region's pioneering documentary IFF, launching 15-20 October, has announced its submission deadlines for the international competition section and the Focus Caucasus screenings.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Euro Animators Sought for Belgrade Fest
Balkanima, the festival of Southeastern European animation running 1-5 October, now in its 10th edition, is accepting submissions through 10 August, seeking work up to 25 minutes from continental filmmakers…
Warsaw IFF Announces China-Eastern Europe Promotion Slate
Following up on last year's first appearance of official Chinese representation, the Warsaw IFF (www.wff.pl), running 11-20 October, will launch the China-Eastern Europe Film Promotion Program (CEEFPP), intended to foster…
