Local films dominate box office in Turkey
ISTANBUL: Turkish films continue to dominate at the local box office with domestic productions taking seven out of the top ten slots for the first six months of 2011. The…
Bulgarian Films Head to Sarajevo Film Festival
SOFIA: Bulgarian films continue their international success story with seven Bulgarian films due to participate in the 17th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival (22-30 July 2011) in the capital of…
First Golden Carpathian TV and Digital Market Launched
BUCHAREST: The first edition of a new TV content market, the Golden Carpathian Market, is set for 25-28 August 2011 in Ploiesti in the Carpathian region of Romania. The event…
PRODUCTION: Jean Claude Van Damme to shoot Six Bullets in Romania
BUCHAREST: Six Bullets aka The Butcher, a new actioner starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, is set to shoot in Romania in September, with MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com ) providing production services. The…
Foreign productions boost Malta economy
MALTA: The 13 part TV series Sinbad the Sailor produced by UK based Impossible Pictures for SKY TV will pump over 8 m euros into the Malta economy according to…
Pula Film Festival Prize Winners
PULA: The 58th Pula Film Festival awarded its main prize, the Grand Golden Arena, to Kotlovina directed by Tomislav Radic in its National Competition for Croatian film. The film also…
Second edition of Odessa IFF builds bridges to Europe
ODESSA: The Grand Prix of the Odessa International Film Festival (15-23 July 2011) was awarded to the French film Tomboy directed by Celine Sciamma. The OIFF’s main prize, the Golden…
Six Degrees in Production
WARSAW: The team behind the award-winning Rabbit a la Berlin has begun shooting the concept documentary Six Degrees, which takes a literal and exploratory look at the theory that everyone…
Six Degrees in Production
WARSAW: The team behind the award-winning Rabbit a la Berlin has begun shooting the concept documentary Six Degrees, which takes a literal and exploratory look at the theory that everyone…
FESTIVALS: 11th IFF New Horizons Opens
WROCLAW: The 11th New Horizons Film Festival www.nowehoryzonty.pl (21-31 July 2011) opened with Berlinale winner Nader And Simin, A Separation by Asghar Farhadi and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a…
TVN Picks Up Minute to Win It
WARSAW: Private broadcaster TVN is working on a Polish version of the American game show Minute To Win It.
UOKiK Restricts Sale of Aster Cable
WARSAW: Polish Office of Consumer and Competition Protection (UOKiK) set conditions to prevent UPC from monopolizing the Polish cable television market after taking over cable broadcaster Aster.
Vajna Bails out Hungarian Producers
BUDAPEST: The Hungarian National Film Fund announced on 20 July 2011 that it has reached an agreement to purchase the claims of three banks with loans to Hungarian film producers.
FESTIVALS: New Horizons Hosts Workshops
WROCLAW: The second edition of the New Horizons Studio takes place 23-26 July 2011, during the 11th New Horizons Film Festival, opening 21 July in Wroclaw.
Bulgaria’s National Film Center Reopens Grants Sessions
SOFIA: The National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) will hold a grants session during the second half of 2011. Due to heavy financial restrictions the normal selection process of the film finding…
PRODUCTION: Dracula Meets Stoker to Shoot in Romania
BUCHAREST: Bestselling writer Dacre Stoker, the great-grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, is preparing Dracula Meets Stoker, a docu-feature in 3D planned for release in 2012 on the occasion of the centennial…
PRODUCTION: Dracula Meets Stoker to Shoot in Romania
BUCHAREST: Bestselling writer Dacre Stoker, the great-grand-nephew of Bram Stoker, is preparing Dracula Meets Stoker, a docu-feature in 3D planned for release in 2012 on the occasion of the centennial…
PRODUCTION: Animated Kreskostoria in Production
WARSAW: Xantus Studio is working on Kreskostoria (Linestory), a original cartoon series about Polish history for cinema and television release. The film will be an entertainment and educational series presenting…
Poland Announces 2011 Grants
The Polish Film Institute has announced grants for 22 films, for a total of PLN 10 million. Included are production grants for four feature films, six documentary films, and one…
Poland Approved Digitalization Bill
WARSAW: Polish President Bronisław Komorowski has approved a "digitalization" bill ending the use of analogue transmitters in Poland by June 2013.
