PRODUCTION: Ondricek Begins Shooting Zatopek
PRAGUE: Producer/writer/director David Ondricek has started filming Zatopek, a biopic of the legendary Czech athlete Emil Zatopek, winner of four Olympic medals. The film was originally planned for production in…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month: Minikino, Ostrava, Czech Republic
This month we speak with Michael Bukovanský, the Minikino programmer and the Head of the Film Club.
Decrease in CME 2019 First Quarter Ad Revenues
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises reported a 7 percent decline in net revenues to 146.6 m USD and 10 percent decline in TV advertising revenues during the first quarter of…
PRODUCTION: Bohdan Sláma Shoots Shadow Land
PRAGUE: Bohdan Sláma, known mainly for his wry comedies, is trying his talent on a different genre this time, namely a period film. Shadow Land / Krajina ve stínu is…
MIDPOINT Storms Lithuania
VILNIUS: Three MIDPOINT programmes will take place in Lithuania 3 – 9 May 2019 presented in partnership with the Lithuanian Film Centre.
Pasikowski's War Thriller Courier Inspires Board Game
WARSAW: Władysław Pasikowski's biopic about Jan Nowak-Jeziorański entitled Courier has inspired a new WWII board game.
Paweł Pawlikowski Joins Cannes Jury
CANNES: Polish director and screenwriter Paweł Pawlikowski has been selected to serve on the prestigious jury of the Cannes Film Festival.
FNE AV Innovation: The Power of Metadata to Promote European Films
Metadata is a word you’ve probably heard mentioned, however it’s rarely understood, with even seasoned filmmakers often asking what is metadata? In its most basic form, metadata literally means a…
FNE at MIFF 2019: Prize Winners
MOSCOW: The Secret of a Leader (Kazakhstan) directed by Farkhat Sharipov took home the Golden George for Best Film at the 41st Moscow International Film Festival, but there was no…
FESTIVALS: Cannes Pays Homage to Milos Forman
PRAGUE: Cannes will pay tribute to Milos Forman a year after his death with a double bill of films, Loves of a Blonde and the documentary Forman vs. Forman by…
PRODUCTION: Georgia’s The Pig in Postproduction
TBILISI: Georgian writer/director Giga Liklikadze is in postproduction with The Pig, his low-budget debut feature film shot in October 2017.
FESTIVALS: Petr Koliha to Receive Lifetime Contribution Award at Zlin IFF
PRAGUE: Petr Koliha, executive director of the Czech children’s TV channel CT :D, will receive the Grand Prix of the 59th Zlin IFF for Children and Youth for his contribution…
FNE Market Analysis 2018: CYPRUS
NICOSIA: The Ministry of Education and Culture in Cyprus made great efforts in 2018 to expand the country’s activities in various aspects concerning the cinema, including film production, film education…
FNE IDF DocBloc: New East Silver Films
East Silver has announced the addition of three new films.
Estonian Doc Breaks Box Office Records
TALLINN: Ott Tänak: The Movie, a documentary about the World Rally Championship driver, directed by Tarvo Mölder, set a new record in Estonia, passing the 50,000 attendance mark since its…
Lithuanian Documentary Tops Local Charts
VILNIUS: Lithuania is the second Baltic country (alongside Estonia) to have a documentary leading the box office charts over the Easter season. Valstybes Paslaptis, a documentary about Lithuanian President Dalia…
Record Polish Admissions for First Quarter of 2019
WARSAW: Poland had 18,811,913 cinema admissions in the first quarter of 2019, the best result in the past two years. The three top box office films are domestic productions.
MIDPOINT Launches Writers’ Room
PRAGUE: The CEE based development programme MIDPOINT announced the launch of a new workshop, MIDPOINT Writers’ Room, a sidebar programme to its MIDPOINT TV Launch programme which began in 2015.
PRODUCTION: Mira Fornay to Complete Post-production on Long-Awaited Third Film
BRATISLAVA: The award-winning Slovak director Mira Fornay, whose second feature My Dog Killer / Môj pes Killer (CINEART TV Prague) won the Tiger award at the 42nd IFF Rotterdam, is…
EFP Announces 20th Producers on the Move Selection
HAMBURG: Producers from Slovenia, Serbia, Poland, Latvia and Croatia are among the 20 participants chosen for the prestigious Producers on the Move programme of European Film Promotion.
