PRODUCTION: Hartley-Merrill Winner Goes into Production
BUDAPEST: Weekend, the Hungarian winner of the International Hartley-Merrill Screenwriting Award, will begin a seven-week shoot on locations in Budapest, rural Hungary and in Transylvania in Romania in mid-October.
Cvitkovic, Sadowska among 13 Directors Pitching at connecting cottbus 2013
COTTBUS: Thirteen Eastern European pitching projects ranging from slacker comedy to closeted homosexuality have been selected for the 15th edition of connecting cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de 7-8 November, 2013), the East-West coproduction…
Bulgaria Introduces Funding for Young Directors
SOFIA: The Bulgarian National Film Center (NFC) will establish a new fund for young directors of short film projects produced within five years of graduation. The plan will support ten…
Romanian Pay TV Model Ready for Export
BUCHAREST: Global satellite company SES is planning additional launches for the DTH platform Orange TV which was launched in Romania by SES and the communication company Orange in June 2013.
Gdynia Winner Develops United States Of Love
GDYNIA: Tomasz Wasilewski, winner of the Young Directing Talent Prize at the 38th Gdynia Film Festival spoke exclusively with FNE about his new project currently in development.
FNE - IDF DocBloc: Distributors Meet in Slovakia
European distributors arrived in Bratislava for a DOK.Incubator workshop.
PRODUCTION: Sławomir Fabicki in preparation with a family feature
WARSAW: After years in development, Sławomir Fabicki confirmed to FNE that he will start works on Bonobo Jingo in June of 2014. The cast of the film will include a…
Record Number of Romanian Premieres in Local Cinemas
BUCHAREST: Nine Romanian features made by Corneliu Porumboiu, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu and Bogdan Mustaţă are opening in Romanian theatres this autumn. Romanian film has been a big prize winner at…
FESTIVALS: Jihlava Selects 19 Emerging Producers
PRAGUE: The second edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival’s Emerging Producers project has named 19 European participants. Central European participants come from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (with…
New Polish TV channel Stopklatka TV to launch in 2014
WARSAW: A new Polish TV channel, Stopklatka, a joint initiative of Kino Polska TV, Stopklatka and Agora, has received a licence to broadcast and a spot in the first Polish…
FNE at Jameson Cinefest- Miskolc IFF 2013: International Competition Announced
MISKOLC: The 10th Miskolc International Film Festival (12 - 22 September 2013) will screen 17 features in the main competion, and three other regular competition section for short films, documentaries…
Romanian Indie Film Sets Opening Record
BUCHAREST: Iulia Rugină's debut feature Love Building set a record for a Romanian independent production, with 10,206 admissions and box office of 35,300 EUR/158,000 RON on its opening weekend, close…
FNE at Portoroz 2013: Class Enemy Takes Main Prize
PORTOROZ: Rok Bicek’s Venice Critics’ Week winner Class Enemy won the Vesna Award for best feature film (producer Triglav Film) at the 16th Festival of Slovenian Film which ended on…
FESTIVALS: Bulgaria Cancels Golden Rose Festival
SOFIA: The 32nd edition of Bulgaria’s national Golden Rose film festival will not take place in 2013 due to an insufficient number of completed films for the competition program.
FNE at Batumi FF 2013:Ten Features to Compete for Batumi IAFF
BATUMI: The 8th Batumi International Art house Film Festival (15 - 22 September 2013) will have three competitive sections and also non-competitive sections such as Georgian Panorama, Music World, Meet…
Film and Music Entertainment commit to Polish Cinema with plans to produce more films in the region.
GDYNIA: Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) CEO and producer Mike Downey re-affirmed at the 38th Gdynia Film festival his company’s ongoing commitment to making films in Poland and, working with…
FNE at Gdynia FF 2013: Prize Winners and Roman Polanski at Fest
GDYNIA: The biggest surprise of the 38 Gdynia Film Festival (9-14 September 2013) was undoubtedly the appearance of Polish director Roman Polanski at the closing ceremony to hand out the…
CME Names New Bosses
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises, the web of TV networks covering six nations in the region, has announced that Christoph Mainusch and Michael Del Nin will take immediately the reigns…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian FF 2013: Panic for Adults
PORTOROZ: The debut feature film by Barbara Zemljič is a comic melodrama about a content middle-aged woman whose seemingly stable world starts to crumble when she is overcome by a…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian FF 2013: Seeking a Home with Seduce Me
PORTOROZ: The protagonist of this Slovenian love story, written and edited by Marko Šantić, is 19-year old Luka, who is leaving the orphanage where he has spent his last 9…
