PRODUCTION: Michał Szczerbic Shooting New Polish Drama Fair
WARSAW: Accomplished Polish producer and screenwriter Michał Szczerbic makes his feature debut with a WWII drama Fair (Sprawiedliwy).
PRODUCTION: Hana Jusić Develops Quit Staring at My Plate
ZAGREB: Hana Jusić's debut feature, Quit Staring at My Plate/ Ne gledaj mi u pijat, is a Croatian, Danish and French coproduction set for shooting in May 2015.
PRODUCTION: Zagreb Stories, vol.3 Resumes Shooting
ZAGREB: Propeler Film is in production with volume 3 of the successful portmanteau film Zagreb Stories focusing this time on a holiday theme.
PRODUCTION: Antonio Nuić in Postproduction with Life Is Like a Trumpet
ZAGREB: The award-winning Bosnian-Croatian film director Antonio Nuić is in postproduction with Life Is Like a Trumpet/Zivot je truba, a character-driven film where drama and comedy are intertwined offering a different perspective of the same event.
PRODUCTION: Laila Pakalnina Working on a Latvian-Polish Coproduction
RIGA: Acclaimed Latvian director Laila Pakalnina is shooting a period drama, Dawn (Ausma), produced by her own studio Hargla.
PRODUCTION: Kinga Dębska Shooting My Daughters, Cows
WARSAW: Polish director will explore complicated family relations in her second feature, My Daughters, Cows produced by Kalejdoskop Film Studio.
PRODUCTION: Anca Miruna Lăzărescu Preps Her Debut Feature
BUCHAREST: Romania's Strada Film and Germany's filmallee team up again for That Trip We Took with Dad/La drum cu tata, the debut feature by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu whose short film, the multi-awarded Silent River/Apele tac they coproduced in 2011.
Se-Ma-For in Production with Animated Historical Film
LODZ: Director Jarosław Konopka is working on his motion capture animated film Escape about the masscare in Volhynia of 1943 , produced by Se-Ma-For.
PRODUCTION: Bartosz Prokopowicz Shooting Chemo
WARSAW: Accomplished Polish DoP Bartosz Prokopowicz is making his feature directing debut with Chemo, a drama inspired by his wife's battle with cancer.
PRODUCTION: Cătălin Mitulescu Develops Heidi
BUCHAREST: Writer/director/producer Cătălin Mitulescu, will question the situation of young women using men as vehicles for receiving nice things in life in Heidi, a feature he plans to shoot in spring 2015.
PRODUCTION: Iglika Trifonova in Postproduction with False Witness
SARAJEVO: Bulgaria’s award-winning Iglika Trifoniva (Letter to America, Investigation) is in postproduction with her Hague Tribunal fiction False Witness, an ambitious coproduction between Bulgaria’s Klass Film , Holland’s Phanta Vision and Sweden’s Filmlance.
PRODUCTION: Milko Lazarov in Development with Nanook
SOFIA: Milko Lazarov, whose minimalist, almost dialogue-free low budget debut film Alienation became Bulgaria’s 2013 creative surprise, is developing Nanook produced by his company Red Carpet.
PRODUCTION: Cristina Iacob in Postproduction with A Gift for You
BUCHAREST: The young director Cristina Iacob, who directed the most successful Romanian film in 2014, the youth comedy #Selfie, is in postproduction with A Gift for You/Un dar pentru tine, a love story set to open on 21 November 2014. She also plans to start shooting a sequel to #Selfie.
PRODUCTION: The Man Who Knew 75 Languages in Production
VILNIUS: The Lithuanian/Polish/Norwgian docudrama The Man Who Knew 75 Languages from director Anne Magnussen and co-director Pawel Debski has gone into production.
PRODUCTION: Anca Damian Developing In Perfect Health
BUCHAREST: Anca Damian is developing a partly autobiographical feature set to shooting in summer 2014, Perfect sănătos/In Perfect Health, the story of a young attorney who starts his own investigation into the strange death of his father, a well-known judge.
PRODUCTION: Gladiators. A Different World in Production
VILNIUS: Director Arūnas Matelis is in production with his feature length documentary Gladiators. A Different World/Gladiatoriai. Kita planeta, a Lithuanian, Italian, Belgian, Swiss, Irish, Northern Ireland/UK and Latvian coproduction.