PRODUCTION: Kinga Dębska Shooting My Daughters, Cows
WARSAW: Polish director will explore complicated family relations in her second feature, My Daughters, Cows produced by Kalejdoskop Film Studio.
HBO Europe Appoints Steve Matthews Executive Producer of Drama Development
BUDAPEST: London-based producer Steve Matthews was named Executive Producer, Drama Development with HBO Europe Original Productions. He takes up his new position as of 1 September 2014.
TVN Signs with Bloomberg
WARSAW: TVN Media will include Bloomberg media video content in the TVN Agency offer.
Jackie Chan Named Romanian-Chinese Cultural Ambassador
BUCHAREST: Chinese actor Jackie Chan will open the Chinese Film Days in Bucharest on 11 September and will be named honorary cultural Ambassador of Romanian-Chinese relations.
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Screening Alert Thursday and Friday
Thursday 28 August 2014: Screening Alert
Oscar winner Adrien Brody Shooting in Czech Republic
PRAGUE: Director Lee Tamahori (Another Day, Once Were Warriors) is filming Emperor, an epic action-adventure film starring Adrien Brody, in the Czech Republic.
PRODUCTION: Anca Miruna Lăzărescu Preps Her Debut Feature
BUCHAREST: Romania's Strada Film and Germany's filmallee team up again for That Trip We Took with Dad/La drum cu tata, the debut feature by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu whose short film,…
AXN Central Europe in Post-production with First Polish Series
WARSAW: The first mini-series produced for AXN Central Europe locally in Poland will premiere in October.
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Screening Alert Wednesday and Thursday
Event Alert: 19:00 Festival Opening Ceremony and Party
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: These Are the Rules by Ognjen Sviličić at 71st Mostra in Venice!
ZAGREB: 24 July – The feature fiction film These Are the Rules, written and directed by Ognjen Sviličić, has been included in the Horizons competition at the 71st International Film…
Bosnia and Herzegovina Prepares a New Audiovisual Law
SARAJEVO: Bosnian film experts are planning to present a draft of an update of the 1990 cinema law to the country’s parliament, after spending more than a year working on…
Closing The Gap Accepting Applications for Investor Pitching Session
BERLIN: Film financing consultancy peacefulfish is accepting applications through 15 September 2014 for its sixth edition of Closing The Gap, an investment training and equity investor pitching session.
The Cut in Main Competition at 71st Venice IFF
WARSAW: The Cut, an international co-production directed by Fatih Akin and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, will screen in Main Competition at the 71st Venice International Film Festival, which…
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Wednesday 27 August 2014 Screening Alert and Event Alert
Event Alert: 19:00 Festival Opening Ceremony and Party
American Series Dig Shoots in Croatia
ZAGREB: The series Dig set to premiere on USA Network this autumn will be partially shot in Croatia for approximately two weeks starting 1 September 2014 with local company Embassy…
Se-Ma-For in Production with Animated Historical Film
LODZ: Director Jarosław Konopka is working on his motion capture animated film Escape about the masscare in Volhynia of 1943 , produced by Se-Ma-For.
FNE at Sarajevo IFF 2014: Turkey and Georgia Win in Sarajevo
The touching Turkish drama Song of my Mother, the story of an aging woman and her son forced to leave their native Kurdish village and live in Istanbul, received the…
PRODUCTION: Bartosz Prokopowicz Shooting Chemo
WARSAW: Accomplished Polish DoP Bartosz Prokopowicz is making his feature directing debut with Chemo, a drama inspired by his wife's battle with cancer.
SOFA Second Edition Focuses on VoD Projects
WROCLAW: The second edition of the SOFA workshop was all about new distribution platforms and audience building projects. The workshop's initiator Nikolaj Nikitin talked to FNE about the new challenges…
Moldova to Open Film Center
BUCHAREST: The Republic of Moldova will have its own Film Center subordinated to the Ministry of Culture.