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Mid Europa Partners acquires Bulgaria's ITV |
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14 October 2009 |
By FNE Staff |
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Mid Europa Partners (www.mideuropa.com) announced that it has completed acquisition of Bulgarian pay-TV operator ITV. |
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13 October 2009 |
By Iulia Blaga |
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Mix 2 Braşov has become the first TV channel to air a 3D show in Romania. |
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Intersonic signs deal with FreMantle |
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13 October 2009 |
By FNE Staff |
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Slovak and Czech distributor Intersonic (www.intersonic.sk) has signed a home entertainment deal with FreMantle Media. |
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Prix Arte nomination for Cooking History |
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12 October 2009 |
By FNE Staff |
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Slovak director Peter Kerekes' film Cooking History has been nominated for the European Film Academy's Prix Arte for best documentary. |
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Viasat enters Estonian IPTV market |
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12 October 2009 |
By FNE Staff |
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Viasat, a division of the Modern Times Group, is launching pay-TV channels in Estonia via the IPTV and broadband provider Elion. |
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ScripTeast workshop wraps |
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11 October 2009 |
By Katarzyna Grynienko |
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ScripTeast (www.scripteast.pl), the Independent Film Foundation training program in scriptwriting which concluded in the Ossoliński Palace in Sterdyń on October 2, presented the following five films in the early stages of development: |
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Lithuania nominates Vortex for foreign-language Oscar |
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09 October 2009 |
By Auksė Kancerevičiūtė |
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Gytis Lukšas feature film Vortex (Duburys), recipient of the the Silver Crane award in Lithuania for best actress Oksana Borbat, and best supporing actors Vladimiras Jefrenovas and Jūratė Onaitytė, has been chosen as Lithuania's entry for Oscar nominations. |
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Digital center planned for Baltic film school |
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08 October 2009 |
By Martin Aadamsoo |
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The Tallinn-based international Baltic Film and Media School (BFM) has launched an architectural competition for its new prmemises, complete with a digital cluster, due for completion by the end of 2011. |
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Tales from the Golden Age tops Romanian box office |
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08 October 2009 |
By Iulia Blaga |
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Tales from the Golden Age, produced, written and co-directed by Cristian Mungiu, together with Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer, Răzvan Mărculescu and Constantin Popescu, has drawn the highest admission on opening week-end for a Romanian film. |
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Romania nominates Police, Adjective for foreign-language Oscar |
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08 October 2009 |
By Iulia Blaga |
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Corneliu Porumboiu's film Police, Adjective, recipient of the FIPRESCI Prize and Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes at Cannes, has been chosen as Romania's entry for Oscar nominations. |
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Emmy nomination for Seven Gates of Jerusalem |
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07 October 2009 |
By FNE Staff |
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State broadcaster Polish Television (TVP, www.tvp.pl) has received an Emmy nomination for the televised music special Seven Gates of Jerusalem by Jaroslaw Minkowicz and Tomasz Baginski. |
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Historic cinema re-opens in Kaunas |
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06 October 2009 |
By FNE Staff |
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The oldest cinema in Lithuania, Romuva, reopened it doors on October 1, for the Kaunas film festival. |
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05 October 2009 |
By Auksė Kancerevičiūtė |
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Public broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT, www.lrt.lt ) has accumulated some 3 million Litas (860,000 Euros) in debts for broadcasting services, reflecting the financial problems in the media sector. |
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New studios under construction in Budapest |
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05 October 2009 |
By Dávid Dercsényi |
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Eight new studios are in construction in Budapest, with the first expected to open its doors in spring 2010 and the remainder completed by the end of 2010. |
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Estonia to cut film subsidies in 2010 |
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05 October 2009 |
By Martin Aadamsoo |
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Estonia is planning to cut as much as 11.8% of the national film fund Estonian Film Foundation's budget in 2010, as presented in the state budget sent to the parliament for approval. |
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