PRODUCTION: Syrena Films backs Cheronobyl 2011
WARSAW: Polish company Syrena Films will co-produce and distribute the new film by Patryk Vega, director one of the hit Polish comedy Ciacho. Syrena (www.syrenafilms.com ) has signed a co-production…
European Film Academy announces contenders
A rich and varied crop of 46 films are in the running for the 23rd European Film Awards nominations, 11 of them from Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey
PRODUCTION: Weapon shoots in Bucharest
Shooting for Weapon, an action movie directed by Ernie Barbarash, started 9 September at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com ) near Bucharest. The story centers on two famous assassins who put their…
Baltic Event Co-Production Market: Call For Entries
The 6th edition of the Baltic Event Co-Production Market will take place from 1-3 December during the Black Nights Film Festival and right before the European Film Academy Awards ceremony…
Tbilisi Hosts Pitch.Doc
Pitch.Doc, a documentary pitching session which will take place 8-10 December during the 11th Tbilisi film festival (www.tbilisifilmfestival.ge), is open for project submissions. The event is a two-day training session…
FNE at Venice IFF 2010: Venice Festival Prize Winners
VENICE: Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing picked up the Special Jury Prize of the main competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival while the Turkish film Majority directed…
FNE at Venice IFF 2010: Essential Killing
VENICE: Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski deservedly won the Venice film festival's Special Jury prize for the courageous film that is a directing tour de force. The film begins with shots…
PRODUCTION: Yavuz Turgul’s detective film in post-production
ISTANBUL: Turkish detective comedy Hunting Season, directed by Yavuz Turgul, is in post-production.
Anarchy in Žirmūnai premieres in Lithuania
Saulius Drunga's debut feature Anarchy in Žirmunai (Anarchija Žirmūnuose) premiered on 9 September in Vilnius, kicking off nationwide distribution. The project, written by Saulius Drunga, won the MEDIA New Talent…
Romania enters If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle for Oscars
Florin Şerban's first feature has been forwarded for consideration as an Oscar Foreign Language Film nomination by a committee including the film critics Eugenia Vodă, Magda Mihăilescu, Cristina Corciovescu, Dana…
Polish director Polanski awarded FIPRESCI Prix for The Ghost Writer
WARSAW: Polish director Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is Best Film of the Year, according to the members of the International Federation of Film Critics - FIPRESCI who voted for…
Art House Metropolis opened in Zagreb
Audiences in Zagreb are warming to the city's latest repertory cinema, Metropolis Art House opened 2 September at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The venue opened with the premiere of…
Kolski's Venice awarded in Montreal
One of the most awaited Polish films of 2010 has won the best artistic contribution at the 34th Montreal World Film Festival (www.ffm-montreal.org), where it had its international premiere. The…
All That I Love chosen as Polish Oscar candidate
The Polish Oscar Committee has chosen All That I Love as the Polish Oscar nomination candidate for the Best Foreign Language Film.
Polish doc about the Internet community starts production in Warsaw
Jarek Rybus has begun shooting a multimedia experiment fusing film and the Web is in his new documentary about the Polish blog community. "The film is an attempt to look…
Romania’s Prima upgrades with Israeli game show
Isreali company Armoza Formats has sold Romania's Prima TV on the second season of its game show formula Upgrade, which will also be a daily fixture on TV screens in…
FNE: Czech Film Incentives: How They Work
On 21 June of this year, the Czech Republic introduced an incentives plan for filmmakers shooting in the Czech Republic. The Film Industry Support Programme offers rebates of up to…
