Foreign Film Production Spend Doubles in Croatia
ZAGREB: The Croatian Audiovisual Centre estimates that international productions will spend almost 11m EUR in Croatia in 2014, almost as much as in 2012 and 2013 combined. Seven international projects…
FNE at Sarajevo IFF 2014: CineLink Expands into Middle East and Mexico
SARAJEVO: The main industry event of the Sarajevo International Film Festival, CineLink, offering over 160,000 EUR in cash and in services, is expanding into new territories.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: DOK.Incubator Focus on Distribution
American and European experts will converge in Telč for the 2014 edition of DOK.Incubator.
FNE at Sarajevo IFF: Sarajevo Industry Days Lifts the Curtain on Avant Premiere
SARAJEVO: The 20th anniversary edition of the Sarajevo International Film Festival, 15-23 August 2014, marks the launch of a new Avant Premiere platform dedicated to the expansion of regional films…
Czech TV Coproducing with ARTE and Discovery Channel
PRAGUE: Czech TV is coproducing three major projects with the Franco-German cultural channel ARTE and Discovery Channel: the documentary Life according to Vaclav Havel, the television miniseries Jan Hus and…
Croatian Directors Confront TV with Copyright Demands
ZAGREB: The Croatian Film Directors Guild (DHFR) is launching a public debate about the difficult relationship between the filmmakers and the televisions, especially Croatian Radio and Television (HRT), regarding copyright…
FNE at Sarajevo IFF 2014: Sarajevo Launches Film Fund
SARAJEVO: The Sarajevo International Film Festival currently celebrating its 20th edition (15-23 August, 2014) is launching a unique fund, focused on the cooperation between regional, European and global partners.
PRODUCTION: Cătălin Mitulescu Develops Heidi
BUCHAREST: Writer/director/producer Cătălin Mitulescu, will question the situation of young women using men as vehicles for receiving nice things in life in Heidi, a feature he plans to shoot in…
Sverak Film Closes in on Opening Weekend Record
PRAGUE: The new fairy tale Three Brothers by Jan and Zdeněk Svěrák had attendance of 122,000 in its opening weekend, second only to the Czech record set by the 2013…
FNE at Venice IFF 2014: CEE Films in Venice Line-up
VENICE: Films from Croatia, Georgia, Romania and Poland have all scored slots in the official line-up of the 71st Venice International Film Festival 27 August-6 September 2014.
Attention all FIPRESCI members coming to Venice IFF
FNE together with FIPRESCI will offer the ratings of all feature films in the official programme of Venice International Film Festival 2014 by FIPRESCI members attending the Festival.*
PRODUCTION: Iglika Trifonova in Postproduction with False Witness
SARAJEVO: Bulgaria’s award-winning Iglika Trifoniva (Letter to America, Investigation) is in postproduction with her Hague Tribunal fiction False Witness, an ambitious coproduction between Bulgaria’s Klass Film , Holland’s Phanta Vision…
FESTIVALS: Zadar Avvantura 2014 Competition
ZADAR: Ten films are screening in the international competition of first and second feature films at the Avvantura Festival taking place 23-29 August 2014.
3D Content Financing Market Accepting Applications for December Edition
LIEGE: The 3D Content Financing Market (3DFM), an international co-production and financing market for projects for stereoscopic-3D (S-3D) contents, is open for applications through 31 August 2014, for the market…
PRODUCTION: Milko Lazarov in Development with Nanook
SOFIA: Milko Lazarov, whose minimalist, almost dialogue-free low budget debut film Alienation became Bulgaria’s 2013 creative surprise, is developing Nanook produced by his company Red Carpet.
PRODUCTION: Cristina Iacob in Postproduction with A Gift for You
BUCHAREST: The young director Cristina Iacob, who directed the most successful Romanian film in 2014, the youth comedy #Selfie, is in postproduction with A Gift for You/Un dar pentru tine,…
First CEE Oscar Contenders Announced
Poland, Hungary and Romania are among the first countries to select the films that will represent them in the Oscar foreign film category.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Oma Export
Bosnia and Herzegovina teams up with Germany on a documentary about a German pensioner looking for a better life in Eastern Europe.
Polish Film Karbala to Shoot in Kurdistan
Polish and Kurdish sources announced that the feature film Karbala is being shot in the Kurdistan region as well as in Poland.
Malta Film Commission Takes on British Interns
Four British university student interns will each spend three months in Malta working with the Malta Film Commission.
