PRODUCTION: City 44 Begins Filming
WARSAW: After eight years of preparation, Jan Komasa started shooting his Warsaw Uprising film City 44 on 11 May 2013 in Warsaw.
New Europe Film Sales Expands Catalogue
WARSAW: Polish sales agent New Europe Film Sales announced it will add creative TV and feature-length documentaries to its library of films, with Polish producer Anna Wydra handling the documentary…
EFP Producers on the Move 2013: Zaza Rusadze
TBILISI: The young Georgian director and producer Zaza Rusadze (born in 1977) has plenty of projects in the pipeline.
ScripTeast 2013 at Cannes: The Mute
Polish scriptwriters Bartosz Konopka and Przemysław Nowakowski compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Mute, a story set in theearly Middle Ages about…
EFP Producers on the Move: Giorgios Karnavas of Greece, Conor Barry of Ireland, and Valon Jakupaj of the Republic of Kosovo
Greek Producer on the Move Giorgios Karnavas has been working as a producer since 2010, establishing the company Heretic with Konstantinos Kontovrakis. He has already collaborated with some of the…
PRODUCTION: Five Shilling Nylon in Postproduction in Cyprus
NICOSIA: Award winning writer/director Christos Siopachas is in postproduction with Five Shilling Nylon, a love story set in 1950 about a miller whose life is turned upside down by the…
Romanian Days at TIFF Announce 2013 Selection
BUCHAREST: Ten features, one long documentary and 20 short films will be screened during Romanian Days, the showcase of new Romanian films at the 12th Transylvania International Film Festival, taking…
PRODUCTION: Polish French Animated Series in Production
WARSAW: The third part of a 26-episode series slated for broadcast in Poland and Argentina, Hip-Hip & Hurra, is in the final stage of production.
EFP Producer on the Move: Zdenka Gold
ZAGREB: Croatian producer Zdenka Gold set up her own production company Spiritus Movens Production in 2009 after working as a freelance producer for a decade.
ScripTeast 2013 at Cannes: The Year of the Kuker
Scriptwriters Nadejda Koseva of Bulgaria and Bojan Vuletić of Serbia compete for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with The Year of the Kuker, the story…
FNE launches first Cannes Critics 2013 film ratings
This year for the first time FNE will offer the ratings of features films in ALL sections of the official Cannes programme by international critics attending Cannes.
Romania approaches cinema digitalisation tipping point
BUCHAREST: Romanian cinema operators have passed the half-way mark in the country’s transition to digitalization with 137 of Romania’s 205 screens already digital by the end of 2012.
Lithuanian Danish Escaping Sunshine Launches Crowdfunding Campaign
VILNIUS: Escaping Sunshine, a Danish-Lithuanian coproduction, has been selected to lead off the new Nordic crowdfunding platform Manymade. The campaign was launched on 8 May 2013.
ScripTeast 2013 at Cannes: Black Maria
Romanian scriptwriter Adi Voicu competes for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with Black Maria, the story of a filmmaker caught up in protests taking place…
FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex Oriente Submissions Open
CEE documentary filmmakers can submit film projects to the 11th edition of the Ex Oriente workshop through 1 June 2013. Read the full story on Dokweb.
FNE at Cannes FF 2013: Jerome Paillard Executive Director Marche Du Film
FNE spoke to of the Jerome Paillard Executive Director of the Marche Du Film about how the marketplace for films is changing in the new digital era and how smaller…
FNE Europa Cinemas: Cinema of the Month – Kino.Lab, Warsaw
FNE together with Europa Cinemas continues its Cinema of the Month series. In recognition of the hard work and excellence of European cinema operators we choose a cinema from each…
PRODUCTION: Kypris - The Great Goddess of Cyprus in Postproduction
NICOSIA: Stavros Papageorghiou is in postproduction with Kypris - The Great Goddess of Cyprus, a 60 minute documentary offering an exploration of the worship of the goddess Aphrodite from an…
PRODUCTION: Visegrad Funds Intrigues
BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer/director Juraj Kilián debuts with Intrigues, a coproduction of the four Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) mainly financed by the Visegrad Fund.
ScripTeast 2013 at Cannes: 1989
Hungarian scriptwriter András B. Vágvölgyi competes for the Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award during the 2013 Cannes IFF with 1989, the story of a Budapest ladies man.
