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Noura Promoted at Finnish Film Foundation |
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16 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
HELSINKI: Kati Noura has been promoted to International information officer at the Finnish Film Foundation ( www.ses.fi). |
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New project from US blockbuster trio due to shoot in Romania in spring |
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13 January 2012 |
By Iulia Blaga |
 BUCHAREST: MediaPro Studios is expecting another production from US blockbuster The Devil Inside trio Paulson, Brent, Peterman to shoot in Romania in spring. |
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MTG Acquires Latvia’s LNT |
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13 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
WARSAW: The Swedish-based broadcasting company Modern Times Group (MTG, www.mtg.se) signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Latvian commercial TV operator AS Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija (LNT, www.lnt.lv) in Latvia for an undisclosed cash consideration. |
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Record 34 Domestic Films Released in Finland |
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13 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
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HELSINKI: A record 34 local films were released in Finland in 2011, taking 17% of the box office share, or 1.2 million admissions. |
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Polish title Sponsoring headed for Berlinale |
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13 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
 WARSAW: Polish title Sponsoring (Elles) directed by Malgorzata Szumowska will be the opening film of the Panorama section of the Berlinale 2012. |
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FNE Exclusive: Q & A with Hrvoje Hribar |
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12 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
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 Hrvoje Hribar, Chief Executive of the Croatian National Film Center (www.havc.hr )
1. What was the most important development in the your country's film industry over the past year?
Amendments
to the 2007 Film Act, which provided legal and institutional framework
for one of the main strategic goals of our four-year National Strategic
Programme for the Audiovisual Industry 2010-2014 to be implemented
-boosting inward investment by introducing a tax incentives scheme which
kickstarts in January 2012. |
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Pay TV Subscriptions Rise in Hungary |
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12 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
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BUDAPEST: Official data shows that pay TV subscribers reached 3.2 million in Hungary by the end of November 2011.
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Match Factory Picks up Fliegauf’s Just the Wind |
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12 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
 Benedek Fliegauf BUDAPEST: German sales agent The Match Factory ( www.the-match-factory.com ) announced its acquisition of Just the Wind by Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf.
The films, about a family of Roma (gypsies) living on the Hungarian
plains who experience the effects of racism, was inspired by actual
events that took place in Hungary in recent years. |
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PRODUCTION: Tomorrow Will Be Better in Postproduction |
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12 January 2012 |
By Cathy Meils |
 Martin Privatsky PRAGUE: Czech director Martin Privatsky is in postproduction with Tomorrow Will Be Better, a documentary about Libor Podmol, a struggling and fatherless Czech village boy who became the 2010 world freestyle motorcross champion.
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PRODUCTION: The Cernosaurs in Postproduction |
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11 January 2012 |
By Iulia Blaga |
 BUCHAREST: Radu Dinulescu is in post-production with The Cernosaurs, a 70 minute 2D animation film produced by the Romanian company Artis Film ( www.artisfilm.ro ) with the support of the National Centre for Cinema ( www.cncinema.abt.ro ) and Romanian public television ( www.tvr.ro ). |
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Poland’s NEFS Acquires First Feature |
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11 January 2012 |
By Cathy Meils |
 WARSAW: Polish boutique sales agent New Europe Film Sales ( www.neweuropefilmsales.com ) has acquired its first feature film, Now, Forager, a Polish-US coproduction debut from Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin. |
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BTI Acquires Chello Zone EE |
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11 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
Swedish-owned Broadcast Text International announced the acquisition of Chello Zone's ( www.chellozone.com) oprerational studio business in Central Europe, including dubbing studios in Poland and Romania. |
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Lattelecom TV Leads in Baltic TV Subscribers |
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10 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
RIGA: Latvia's Lattelecom (www.lattelecom.lv ) ended 2011 as the largest pay-TV operator in the Baltics, with 230,000 pay-TV subscribers.
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Estonian Film Centennial Begins in Tartu |
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10 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
 TALLINN: The 100th anniversary of Estonian film launched on 6 January in Tartu, the birthplace of the first national film director Johannes Paasuke whose first documentary was the now-lost Utotchkin Flying in Tartu on April 14 and 15, 1912. Paasuke also directed the first Estonian feature film, The Parnu County
Bear Hunt, in 1914. He was a major documentary of life in Estonia, both
through on film and still photographs, many of which will be featured at
the centennial events. |
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Czech director Sverak looks to Africa |
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10 January 2012 |
By Anna Franklin |
 PRAGUE : Czech director Jan Sverak ( www.sverak.cz ) is preparing a new project based on the Saul Bellows book Henderson the Rain King together with his long time production partner Eric Abraham of Portobello Pictures. |
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Theme Channels Gain Polish Viewers |
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09 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
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WARSAW: Poland’s theme channels continued to gain viewers in 2011, rising by 10% in the target 16-49 age group, to a 33% share. |
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CEE Films Receive Eurimages Funding |
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09 January 2012 |
By Cathy Meils |
 Cristian Mungiu STRASBOURG: Films from Romania, Hungary, Finland, Austria, and the Czech Republic are among the 18 European coproductions that have been selected for the latest round of Eurimages funding. Cristian Mungiu's new project Provizoriu was among the most hotly anticipated titles.
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New World Wins Estonian Journalists Prize |
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09 January 2012 |
By FNE Staff |
 TALLINN: A documentary film, The New World (Uus Maailm) directed by Jaan Tootsen, has won the best film of 2011 prize from the Estonian Association of Film Journalists.
Estonian public broadcaster EFF quoted leading film critic Jaan Ruus
saying of the film, "It shows there is a need for something natural and
completely earnest, and 'Uus Maailm' is a quest for an alternative
lifestyle. We need that kind of idealism." |
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British Leonardo Project delegates pioneer new training programme |
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05 January 2012 |
By Siobhan Keirans & Ian McCormick |
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 WARSAW: A delegation of British graduates became the first ever to participate in an innovative new pilot project launched in Warsaw with funding from the European Union Leonardo Project. The 14 strong group participated in the 2011 edition of the Watch Docs Human Rights Film Festival (www.watchdocs.com ) in Warsaw at the invitation of Anna Franklin general director of Film New Europe as well as meeting with key representatives of the Polish film industry. The pilot project is the brainchild of Contented (www.contented.net) director Gerard Davies who plans to bring more groups of graduates to central and Eastern Europe throughout 2012.
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The Hungarian film industry pins hopes on the end of 2011 releases |
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30 December 2011 |
By FNE Staff |
 SOS Love! - The Million Dollar Contract
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