Sony Pictures’ Gran Turismo Shoots in Hungary
BUDAPEST: Sony Pictures has confirmed on Twitter that the Gran Turismo film directed by Neill Blomkamp and starring Archie Madekwe, Djimon Hounsou, Geri Halliwell, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom and Darren…
Dogan Media International Picks Up Bucuresti TV Audiovisual Licence
BUCHAREST: The Turkish company Dogan Media International has received the green light from the National Audiovisual Council of Romania to take over the audiovisual licence of the Bucuresti TV channel…
FESTIVALS: Safe Place Wins 2022 FilmFestival Cottbus
COTTBUS: Juraj Lerotić’s debut feature Safe Place, a coproduction between Croatia and Slovenia, was awarded Best Film in the Feature Film Competition of the 32nd edition of FilmFestival Cottbus (8…
Connecting Cottbus 2022 Announces CocoPITCH and CocoWIP Winners
COTTBUS: The winning cocoPITCH and cocoWIP projects of the 24th edition of connecting cottbus were announced during a ceremony on 10 November 2022.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Fires
COTTUBS: Montenegrin producer Bojana Radulović presented the Montenegrin/Italian/Belgian/Croatian/Serbian coproduction Fires directed by Nikola Ljuca at the East-West pitching forum connecting cottbus, which was held 9 – 11 November 2022. The…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Spite
COTTBUS: Serbian company BaBoon Production teams up with Montenegrin coproducer Open Box on Spite, a dramatic mystery written and directed by Andrijana Stojković. The project was presented at connecting cottbus,…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Supermarket
COTTBUS: Sarajevo-based production company SCCA/pro.ba continues its ten-year collaboration with Bosnian director Nermin Hamzagić with the drama Supermarket. The project was showcased at the East-West pitching forum connecting cottbus, held…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Asphalt
COTTBUS: Slovenia’s Studio Virc, best known for the entertaining 2016 docufiction mockumentary film Houston, We Have a Problem! by Žiga Virc, is coproducing the Greek/Slovenian comedy Asphalt. The project was…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Deconstruction
COTTBUS: Bulgarian producer Veselka Kiryakova teams up with writer-director Pavel G. Vesnakov and co-writer Simeon Ventsistavov on Deconstruction, one of 13 projects presented at the connecting cottbus East-West pitching forum…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Black Blood
COTTBUS: Czech director Beata Parkanová returns to the East-West pitching forum connecting cottbus with Black Blood produced by Ondřej Zach for Ozet Film.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Maricel
COTTBUS: Cypriot production company Filmblades presented the Cypriot/Greek coproduction Maricel at connecting cottbus, taking place 9 – 11 November 2022, where the producers were seeking a third coproducer to come…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2022: Dolphin
COTTBUS: Dolphin, the Polish film project which won the Midpoint Coco Award, was presented at the 2022 edition of connecting cottbus (9 – 11 November 2022). The film is produced…
Documentary Lockdown Musical Bromance Homies Enters Czech Distribution
PRAGUE: The Documentary Homies / Sami doma by Jan Foukal will be released by Aerofilms in Czech cinemas on 16 November 2022. The film had its world premiere at the…
BOX OFFICE: Daniel Jaroszek's Johnny Dominates Polish Box Office
WARSAW: Johnny directed by Daniel Jaroszek has already racked up over 800,000 admissions in Polish cinemas since its release on 23 September 2022. This result has given the film a…
FESTIVALS: European Film Forum Scanorama 2022 Kicks Of with New Competition Section
VILNIUS: Nine titles including seven feature films and two long documentaries have been selected for the new Main Competition of the 20th edition of the European Film Forum Scanorama, which…
Classic Romanian Animated Film Reaches North America
BUCHAREST: LA-based Deaf Crocodile Films has licensed North American home video rights to Romanian animated sci-fi film The Son of the Stars / Fiul stelelor (1987) by Calin Cazan and…
Marta Pajeks’s Short Animated Trilogy Impossible Figures and Other Stories Available for Free on Vimeo
WARSAW: Impossible Figures and Other Stories I, the first part of the award-winning animated trilogy by Marta Pajek, is available on Vimeo free of charge starting 8 November 2022. The…
FESTIVALS: Submissions Open for Animafest Zagreb 2023
ZAGREB: The World Festival of Animated Film - Animafest Zagreb has opened the submissions for its 33rd edition set to take place 5 - 10 June 2023. All short and…
PRODUCTION: Croatian Rock Documentary Grandpa Guru Shoots in USA
ZAGREB: Croatian screenwriter/director Silvio Mirošničenko is currently filming Grandpa Guru, a long documentary produced by Croatia’s Točka kulture and coproduced by Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Produkcija Scena.
PRODUCTION: Lithuanian Director Eglė Vertelytė Shoots Sophomore Feature Tasty
VILNIUS: Lithuanian writer/director Eglė Vertelytė started shooting her sophomore feature after her successful debut with Miracle / Stebuklas (2018). The comedy drama Tasty / Gardutė has already been acquired by…
