PRODUCTION: HiFilm Productions Develops One Step Behind the Seraphim
BUCHAREST: Ada Solomon of HiFilm Productions is developing a Romanian-Hungarian coproduction, One Step Behind the Seraphim the first feature film of Daniel Gabriel Sandu. The project has been selected for the Talent Project Market of the Berlinale Talent Campus.
PRODUCTION: Gyorgy Palfi Developing The Voice
BUDAPEST: Hungarian director György Pálfi (Hukkle, Taxidermia) will participate in the Berlinale Co-production Market with The Voice. The filmmakers are looking for coproducers and a world sales agent.
PRODUCTION: Polish Documentary Shooting in USA
ŁÓDŹ: The Sound of Nature – The Nature of Sound, a documentary directed by Jacek Piotr Bławut is scheduled to film between March 2013 and January 2014 in United States.
PRODUCTION: Shot in Postproduction
ZAGREB: Robert Orhel's 90 minute drama Shot, filmed in November and December 2012, is in postproduction for completion in June 2013. Kinorama is producing in coproduction with public broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision.
PRODUCTION: City'44 goes into production
WARSAW: After six years of development, Jan Komasa started work on a contemporary drama on the Warsaw Uprising.
PRODUCTION: Porumboiu in postproduction with A Nine-Minute Interval
BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Corneliu Porumboiu, recipient of Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes for Police, Adjective (2009), is in postproduction with his third feature.
PRODUCTION: Polish musical quasi-documentary in production
WARSAW: Aleksander Dembski is working on his quasi-documentary I Love You Like Ireland about a Polish band Kobranocka.
PRODUCTION: Polish débutantes work on a film portrayal of Warsaw
WARSAW: Shooting has just started on Warsaw Stories, a feature drama directed by five young Polish filmmakers.
PRODUCTION: Vinnie Jones in Lithuania UK coproduction Flight Redirected
VILNIUS: Controversial director Emilis Velyvis is working on his new action-comedy-thriller Flight Redirected, the story of four friends turned first-time robbers, who get stranded in an Eastern Europe and have to find their way back, taking on smugglers, dirty cops and fantasies.
PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production
WARSAW: French director Leila Ferault-Levy and Polish producer Marcin Latałło’s Camera Obscura are in production on Cenotaphe (Pomnik), an intimate documentary on crimes of genocide committed during World War II.
PRODUCTION: Fright Night 2 Shooting Entirely in Romania
BUCHAREST: Shooting for Eduardo Rodriguez's horror comedy Fright Night 2 started 25 November in Romania. 20th Century Fox (www.foxmovies.com) is producing with the Romania's Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro) providing services.
PRODUCTION: On the Sea with Badjao Unites Poles, Germans and Brits
WARSAW: Polish, German and English crews are in production On the Sea with Badjao, a documentary that shows an ironic clash of cultures that knows no winner.
PRODUCTION: Cieslar in Postproduction with English Lingo Colette
BRATISLAVA: Czech director Milan Cieslar is postproduction with the last work by Czech author Arnost Lustig, the screen adaptation of Lustig’s 1992 novel Colette. The film will be Cieslar’s first English language feature.
PRODUCTION: Rebellion in Postproduction in Poland
WARSAW: Director Małgorzata Kozera is in postproduction with the documentary Rebellion (Bunt) focused on the biggest anti-government riots in Eastern Europe in 1989, the year of the collapse of communism. Postproduction is taking place at Vision House in Warsaw.
PRODUCTION: Hirte in Postproduction with In the Name of the Mayor
BUCHAREST: Romanian born Paris-based director Anca Hirte is in postproduction with a bittersweet observational documentary In the Name of the Mayor.
PRODUCTION: To Paris, with the ID in Preproduction
BUCHAREST: Şerban Marinescu is in preproduction with To Paris, with the ID, a contemporary satire about the hopes of people who thought the fall of communism would be followed by fluid integration into Europe.