Central European co-productions receive Finnish funding
Co-productions from Estonia, Poland, and Bulgaria have received grants totaling €270,000 Euros from the Finnish Film Foundation.
Soul draws Slovak crowds
Vladimir Balko's Soul at Peace (www.pokojvdusi), has reached nearly 115,000 admissions since its premiere on January 29, turning it into a local hit.
Romania supports TrainEastFilm
Romania is backing a new one-week residential workshop in Tblisi, Georgia, for 24 debuting filmmakers with plans to direct a feature or documentary film.
Fox pilot in Prague, Croatia
Breaking a dry streak in the Czech Republic, Fox began filming the pilot for Masterwork in Prague on April 28.
Production: Zombie Age in preproduction
Academy Award nominated Hungarian director Geza M. Toth (Maestro) is in preproduction with the animated feature film The Zombie Age.
Production: Barry Gifford brings Phantom Father to Romania
The American cult screenwriter Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts) plays a small part in The Phantom Father, the first feature from Lucian Georgescu, based on…
Czech TV advertising up
Advertising spend on Czech television defied market trends, rising by 13% in March, according to a TNS Media Intelligence report cited by the Dow Jones newswire service.
Romanian ad market faces steep decline
The Romanian TV ad market is predicted to drop by as much as €55 million in 2009.
Telekom Slovenije launches internet TV
Slovenia's largest telecommunication company Telekom Slovenije (www.telekom.si) launched the interactive service Siol IO (io.siol.net), an interactive service providing TV via computer internet, on April 22.
Production: Cristi Puiu casts himself in Aurora
Cannes and Berlin awarded Romanian director Cristi Puiu is in production with his third feature, Aurora, a crime story with the director playing the lead role himself.
Czech film production soars
A packed room of industry pros showed up to scout more than 20 upcoming films, out of 60 Czech films in various stages of production, selected for the annual presentation…
Slovak AV director search closes
The newly formed Slovak Audiovisual Fund closes its call for applications for the position of Director on April 27 at 15:00.
Polish media bill introduced
Poland's hotly debated new media bill, which could shift public broadcasting financing from TV households to the government budgert, had its first reading at the Polish Sejm (parliament) on April…
Production: Vorel shooting Billionaire
Director, scriptwriter, master of parody and trifle, and occasional actor Tomáš Vorel will finish an eight week shoot on his new film To Catch a Billionaire (Jak ulovit miliardáře) in…
Production: Vorel shooting Billionaire
Director, scriptwriter, master of parody and trifle, and occasional actor Tomáš Vorel will finish an eight week shoot on his new film To Catch a Billionaire (Jak ulovit miliardáře) in…
First Polish Film Commission launches in Łódź
The Association of Film Commissioners International (www.afci.org) has established its first unit in Poland, based in Łódź, to assist local and international filmmakers and encourage them to work in the…
Production: Colorado Kid in postproduction
The Hungarian-British co-production Colorado Kid, the debut feature from film critic Andras Vagvolgyi B, has moved into postproductionin England.
TV-stations boycot digital broadcasting
Commercial channels POP TV (http://poptv.si/), Kanal A (www.kanal-a.si) and TV Pika (www.tvpika.net) have been disconnected from Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial (dvb-t) which is controlled by public broadcaster RTV (www.rtvslo.si).
Production: Mitulescu moves forward with Heart Shape Balloon
Cătălin Mitulescu is in pre-production with A Heart Shape Balloon (Un balon în formă de inimă), his second feature after the acclaimed debut How I Celebrated the End of the…
Production: Mitulescu moves forward with Heart Shape Balloon
Cătălin Mitulescu is in pre-production with A Heart Shape Balloon (Un balon în formă de inimă), his second feature after the acclaimed debut How I Celebrated the End of the…
