PRODUCTION Partisan Priest Is Ready for Opening Night
MARIBOR: Documentary feature film Partisan Priest has finished shooting and is ready for its cinema and television premiere in autumn 2015 following the opening night at the Slovenian Film Festival in Portoroz.
PRODUCTION Feature Length Doc 85 Grams in Postproduction
CLUJ-NAPOCA: Ion Gnatiuc and Petre Matei are currently in postproduction with 85 Grams/85 grame, a 90-minute documentary about a Romanian historian and activist who is fighting for the rights of the Holocaust Roma survivors.
PRODUCTION Păunescu Produces Giuseppe Tornatore’s Doc on Ennio Morricone
BUCHAREST: The Sight of Music/ Lo sguardo della musica by Giuseppe Tornatore, a docu-fiction produced by Bobby Păunescu through Mandragora Group in coproduction with Tornatore’s Piano B Produzioni is currently shooting with the premiere set for 2016.
PRODUCTION: Czech Debut Fish Blood in Development
PRAGUE: The Czech debut Fish Blood/Rybí krev is currently in development. It is directed and written by Ondrej Provaznik and produced by Jakub Mahler and Tomas Michalek for the production company MasterFilm.
PRODUCTION: Slumbering Concrete Doc TV Series Shooting in Croatia
ZAGREB: The documentary TV series Slumbering Concrete/ Betonski spavači by Saša Ban about the modernist architecture of former Yugoslavia is shooting with the premiere set for 2016.
PRODUCTION: Iglika Triffonova in Postproduction With Lift For Patients
SOFIA: Award-winning director Iglika Triffonova is in postproduction with her new film Lift for Patients, a modern psychological drama. Written by Triffonova herself, the script was rated first at the session for low budget films set up by the National Film Centre last year.
PRODUCTION: Hadrian Marcu Develops Shadow and Dream
BUCHAREST: Hadrian Marcu is developing his debut feature Shadow and Dream/Firesc, set for shooting in autumn 2016.
PRODUCTION: Czech/French Coproduction We Are Never Alone in Postproduction
PRAGUE: Petr Vaclavis in postproduction with his latest film, the Czech/French coproduction We Are Never Alone/Nikdy Najsme Sami.
PRODUCTION: My Father, My Mother, My Sister Shooting in Sofia
SOFIA: Director Dimitar Kozev-Shosho started the shooting of his second feature My Father, My Mother, My Sister on 29 June 2015. The theatrical distribution is planned for 2016.
PRODUCTION: Igor Cobileanski Preps First Romanian-Lithuanian Coproduction
BUCHAREST: Igor Cobileanski (The Unsaved) will start shooting a new feature, Eastern Business, mid-July 2015. This dark comedy is the first Romanian/Lithuanian coproduction to date.
PRODUCTION: Arkadiusz Jakubik Preps Second Feature
WARSAW: Polish director, actor and musician Arkadiusz Jakubik will start shooting his second feature, Simple Murder Story, in September 2015.
PRODUCTION: Polsat to Shoot BBC Adaptation
WARSAW: Private broadcaster Polsat will produce Skazane / Convicted, a Polish version of BBC drama series Prisoner's Wives
PRODUCTION: David Ondricek Preps Emil Zatopek Biopic
PRAGUE: Producer/writer/director David Ondricek is in preparation with Zatopek , a biopic of the legendary Czech athlete Emil Zatopek, winner of four Olympic medals.
PRODUCTION: Swiss Croatian Animation Project Chris the Swiss Begins Production in Zagreb
ZAGREB: Anja Kofmel’s Swiss/Croatian coproduction Chris the Swiss began production in Zagreb mid-June 2015. This is the first animated film benefiting from the incentives scheme launched by HAVC in 2012.
PRODUCTION: TVN Shoots Australian Series Adaptation
WARSAW: TVN has started producing Aż po sufit, the Polish version of the Australian series Packed to the Rafters. Academy Award nominated Bartosz Konopka and Julia Kolberger are directing.
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Losers in Postproduction
SOFIA: In his new feature, Losers, the famous actor/director/writer Ivailo Hristov follows a teenage group of friends from a small town on the eve of the visit of some famous pop musicians.
