OBITUARY: Radoslav Brzobohaty
PRAGUE: Czechoslovak actor Radoslav Brzobohaty died 12 September 2012, just one day short of what would have been his 80th birthday.
PRODUCTION: New Wajda Studio production The Performer Wraps Filming
WARSAW: The Wajda Studio (www.wajdastudio.com) has completed shooting on its second feature film, The Performer, the directing debut from Maciej Sobieszczanski and Łukasz Ronduda.
PRODUCTION: New Croatian film All the Best in Development
ZAGREB: Director/screenwriter Snjezana Tribuson is developing All the Best, a romantic comedy set to shoot in autumn-winter 2013 for the Croatian company Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr).
FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Winds
ADANA: Winds will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the 2012 Golden Boll Film Festival.
Increase in multiplexes continues to spur Romanian box office growth in 2012
BUCHAREST: The Romanian box office rose by 4.1 percent in the first seven months of 2012, while admissions grew by 6.4 percent.
FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Where is My Mother Tongue?
ADANA: Where is My Mother Tongue had its world premiere in the 2012 Istanbul Film Festival’s main competition.
FESTIVALS: Batumi Launches Workshop
BATUMI: The Batumi International Art-house Film Festival (BIAFF, www.biaff.org) will host a documentary workshop in partnership with Postcode Films (www.postcodefilms.com).
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master provokes storm of controversy at prize ceremony
LONDON: American director Paul Thomas Anderson took home the runner-up Silver Lion Prix of the Venice Film Festival for The Master amid a storm of controversy after The Hollywood Reporter…
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Venice Film Festival Prize Winners
VENICE: Korean director Kim Ki-duk collected the Golden Lion for Best film for his ultra violent Pieta in a year that saw Ulrich Seidl’s Paradies: Glaube as the only film…
Romanian film lures audiences with unique promo campaign
BUCHAREST: Romanian producer/director Tudor Giurgiu is trying to lure Romanian audiences back to local films with a unique new promotional campaign for his second film, Of Snails and Men. Unprecedented…
FESTIVALS: Rosa Wins MECEFF
MEDIAS: The second MECEFF (Mediaş Central European Film Festival, www.meceff.ro) gave its Best Film award to the Polish film Rosa (www.skorpionarte.pl) by Wojciech Smarzowski
FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: The Circle
ADANA: The Circle is the latest film from Dervis Zaim, whose previous films, made over the last 20 years, include Waiting for Heaven, Dot and Somersault in a Coffin.
FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: Saint Ayse
ADANA: Saint Ayse directed by Elfe Uluc will make its premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival.
FNE at Golden Boll Film Festival: Night of Silence
ADANA: Night of Silence, which screens in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll Film Festival, had its world premiere at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival’s Generation section where…
FNE exclusive: Court decision gives Hungarian Film Fund control of film studios: FNE asks Andy Vajna what’s next
BUDAPEST: A Hungarian court decision has transferred the property of the former Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) to the Hungarian National Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu).
FNE at Venice FF 2012: Competition: Spring Breakers
VENICE: Oldies beware Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers might seem slight but the buzz from younger Euro-critics after its first screening in Venice was decidedly positive.
FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: Know My Name
ADANA: Know My Name will have its world premiere in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll film festival.
FNE at the Golden Boll Film Festival: Load
ADANA: The latest film from veteran director Erdan Kiral, Load, screens in the Turkish National Competition of the Golden Boll film festival.
Realitatea TV to Cut Staff
BUCHAREST: Realitatea TV (www.realitatea.net) announced it will cut half of its personnel, following the appointment of a new General Manager, Gabrial Bugnar, who took over the position on 3 September…
FNE at Golden Boll FF: National Competition lineup announced
ADANA: Fourteen Turkish films were selected from 42 applicants to screen in the 19th Golden Boll National Feature competition (17-23 September 2012, www.altinkozafestivali.org.tr), vying for 350,000 TL in prizes.
