PRODUCTION: The Man Who Knew 75 Languages in Production
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian/Polish/Norwgian docudrama The Man Who Knew 75 Languages from director Anne Magnussen and co-director Pawel Debski has gone into production.
FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Robert Berberih - Croatia
FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
Profits Rise at TVP
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP recorded a profit of 116 m PLN within the first six months of 2014, a stunning 107.4 m PLN more than for the same period…
TVP Sees More International Sales
WARSAW: Series and films produced by Poland’s public broadcaster TVP are being sold worldwide to territories including Estonia, Latvia, China and Korea.
Polish Oscar Candidate Ida Continues International Rollout
WARSAW: Pawel Pawlikowski’s recently announced Oscar contender Ida is set for premieres in Slovakia, Hungary, UK, Denmark and Sweden.
Croatian Box Office Declines
ZAGREB: Croatia saw a general decline in box office and domestic films brought in 85% less money in the first half of 2014 compared to the first half of 2013.
Bollywood productions boost Romanian film industry
BUCHAREST: Bollywood has discovered Romania. In what looks like a growing trend across central and eastern Europe Bollywood producers shooting in Romania are boosting the local location services industry. Bollywood…
Creative Europe Desk Polska and KIPA Focus on Viewers
WARSAW: August 11, 2014 is the deadline for project submissions to the workshop that will take place during the 39th Gdynia Film Festival.
American indie Nameless shooting in Romania
BUCHAREST: The independent production Nameless directed by Thurman Bryan and Luis Esteban and starring John Rhys-Davies, started shooting in Bucharest on 11 August with the local company Castel Film providing…
Biblical Thriller Clavius with Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton Filming in Malta
VALLETTA: After shooting in Malta for The Count of Monte Cristo in 2002, director Kevin Reynolds returns with Clavius, an epic thriller starring Joseph Fiennes and Tom Felton with the…
First Bollywood Film Shoots in Romania
BUCHAREST: Director Binoy Gandhi is shooting an untitled Bollywood film on location in Romania according to local Indian media reports.
FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech Documentary Panel
The 2014 panel of upcoming Czech documentaries is set for 29 September 2014.
Czech law office KMVS supports filmmakers from development to distribution
PRAGUE: Today’s rapidly changing audiovisual environment presents filmmakers with new challenges in all areas of production and distribution including in the legal sector.
Lodz, FAMU Top Best Film Schools List
PRAGUE: Poland’s Lodz Film School and Prague’s FAMU film school rank high among the top fifteen international film schools in the Hollywood Reporter’s 2014 annual listings.
Georgia Plans 2015 Calls for Funding
TBLISI: The Gerogian National Film Center will announce 2015 production contests in five categories.
New Minister of Culture Appointed in Bulgaria
SOFIA: Martin Ivanov has been named as the new Minister of Culture in the caretaker government just appointed by the country’s President Rosen Plevneliev.
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Cinema Elvire Popesco, Bucharest
This month we spoke with Boglarka Nagy, the programmer of the Elvira Popescu Cinema, a trendy cinema in Bucharest named after the most famous Romanian actress in France, Elvire Popesco…
PRODUCTION: Anca Damian Developing In Perfect Health
BUCHAREST: Anca Damian is developing a partly autobiographical feature set to shooting in summer 2014, Perfect sănătos/In Perfect Health, the story of a young attorney who starts his own investigation…
CentEast 2014 - submit your work-in-progress!
The call for works-in-progress from Eastern Europe to participate in CentEast Warsaw-Moscow is now open! The deadline for submissions is Friday, 5th of September 2014.
PRODUCTION: Gladiators. A Different World in Production
VILNIUS: Director Arūnas Matelis is in production with his feature length documentary Gladiators. A Different World/Gladiatoriai. Kita planeta, a Lithuanian, Italian, Belgian, Swiss, Irish, Northern Ireland/UK and Latvian coproduction.
