FNE at Baltic Event 2014: Cvitkovic in Preproduction with Our Family
TALLINN: Slovenian producer Ales Pavlin of PERFO Production was at the Baltic Event taking place in Tallinn through 28 November 2014 to pitch Jan Cvitkovic’s fifth film Our Family.
FNE at Cinemania 2014: Cinemania Expands into New Theatres
SOFIA: The 28th edition of the annual film fest Cinemania, running in the three biggest Bulgarian towns of Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, is showing 57 new international hits and auteur…
Taskovski Films Picks up Sugar Blues
PRAGUE: London film sales company Taskovski Films has picked up the Czech documentary Sugar Blues directed by Andrea Culkova.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Three DOK.Incubator films nominated at IDFA 2014
The nominations for the best films in IDFA’s competition programs have just been announced.
FNE at Baltic Event 2014: A Breakthrough Year for Estonian Films
TALLINN: A trio of films put Estonia on the international map in 2014, Estonian Film Institute head Edith Sepp told FNE.
FNE at Baltic Event 2014: Northern Europe Converges on Tallinn’s Dynamic Industry Forum
TALLINN: When it comes to Tallinn’s film industry meeting point, the Baltic Event running 24-28 November 2014, Estonia is punching way above its weight. FNE spoke with Marge Liiske, managing…
FNE at Baltic Event 2014: Lithuanian Tax Incentives Soar
TALLINN: The new Lithuanian tax incentives scheme for films, introduced just 11 months ago, “is working quite well,” Lithuanian Film Centre project manager Kristina Vildziunaite said at a presentation taking…
PRODUCTION: Pakalnina Rises with Dawn
TALLINN: Latvian auteur and producer Laila Pakalnina is in postproduction with Dawn, a Latvian/Estonian/Polish coproduction which participated in the Baltic Event Works in Progress presentation on 26 November 2014.
FNE at Baltic Event 2014: Estonians Discover Film Treasure in Russia
TALLINN: A diplomatic breakthrough trip by a delegation from the Estonian Film Institute has turned up what may be the first fiction film shot in Estonia, a 1913 comedy titled…
PRODUCTION: Banat in Preproduction
BUCHAREST: Italian director/screenwriter Adrian Valerio is in preparation with his first feature Banat, a coproduction between Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia set for shooting in 2015.
FNE at Black Nights 2014: Industry@Tallinn Launches Digital Corner
TALLINN: “From the country that gave the world Skype.” Those words from Black Night Film Festival’s Industry@Tallinn director Stan-Kristian Saluveer kicked off the launch of the festival’s new Digital Corner,…
FNE at Baltic Event 2014: Kousaar in Preproduction with Nordic Instinct
TALLINN: Estonian writer/director Kadri Kõusaar will begin shooting her third feature, the Estonian/Swedish/Norwegian coproduction Nordic Instinct in early 2015 in Estonia and Norway.
PRODUCTION: Dinu Tănase Develops Who Killed Christmas
BUCHAREST: Dinu Tănase’s Who Killed Christmas, a drama about cruelty and violence in the countryside, is set for shooting in November 2015.
Dates Set for Czech Lions
PRAGUE: The nominations for the 22nd annual Czech Lion awards will be announced on 14 January 2015.
New Horizons Cinema Hits 1 Million Mark
WARSAW: The biggest art-house in Europe celebrated its 1 million viewer this week.
Global City Holdings Net Profit Falls
WARSAW: Exhibitor and real estate company Global City Holdings posted three month and nine month declines in net profits in its interim statement for 2014.
FESTIVALS: Tbilisi IFF 2014 Opens with The President
TBILISI: The 15th Tbilisi International Film Festival will open on 1 December 2014 with The President shot in Georgia by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who will present the film.
FESTIVALS: Leviathan Wins Camerimage
BYDGOSZCZ: Russian cinematographer Mikhail Krichman won the main competition of the 2014 edition of Camerimage for Leviathan and Kacper Fertacz won the Polish competition with Hardkor Disko.
PRODUCTION: Otar Iosseliani Shoots Winter Song
TBILISI: Winter Song/Chant d'hiver, the new feature of the acclaimed Otar Iosseliani, is moving to France for filming in December following shooting in Georgia 16 - 24 October 2014.
France Fetes Czech Success Story
PRAGUE: Slovak/Czech/Hungarian distributor Ivan Hronec of Film Europe and Unifrance’s CEE guru Joel Chapron kicked off the 17th edition of the expanded Festival of French Films in Prague with a…
