FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: Euro Funds Target CEE at CoCo Funding Panel

COTTBUS: CEE producers found reason for hope with presentations by funds from across the continent at the Connecting Cottbus funding panel taking place on 6 November 2014.
07-11-2014

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: The Daybreak

COTTBUS: Albanian director Gentian Koci will make his feature film debut with the social drama The Daybreak, the first Albanian project ever pitched at Connecting Cottbus.
07-11-2014

FNE IDF DocBloc: CEE Docs Online

Selected films from the Silver Eye market are available for online viewing.
07-11-2014

Slovak Films Score with MEDIA

BRATISLAVA: Four of the five Slovak films applying to the second call for proposals of the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme will receive development grants, making it the most successful session…
06-11-2014

Slovak TV Joins Slovak Film Institute in Digitalisation Project

BRATISLAVA : The Slovak Film Institute (SFI) has embarked on a massive 22.5m EUR national Digital Audiovisual Project with 8.5m EUR provided by its partner in the project, public broadcaster…
06-11-2014

Romanian Public TV Opens Subsidiary in Moldova

BUCHAREST: The Romanian public television station TVR has opened a subsidiary in the Republic of Moldova which will independently produce and broadcast TV content and films.
06-11-2014

The Eichmann Show Wraps Filming in Lithuania

VILNIUS: The British Broadcasting Company BBC is completing production on the TV movie The Eichmann Show in Vilnius, Lithuania.
05-11-2014

GRANTS: Estonia Funds 16 Docs

TALLINN: Sixteen Estonian documentary projects have received funding for 2014.
05-11-2014

Croatian MP Film Production Looks Northward

ZAGREB: Croatian producer Igor A. Nola currently has five international coproductions shooting or in postproduction and is expanding into Northern Europe.
05-11-2014

FESTIVALS: Lithuanian Films Shine at Scanorama 2014

VILNIUS: Three Lithuanian films will have their premieres at the Scanorama European Film Festival which kicks off its four city tour in Vilnius on 6 November 2014 and runs through…
05-11-2014

PRODUCTION: Slovak Schengen Story Looks East for Partners

BRATISLAVA: Slovak producer Wanda Adamik Hrycová (Colette) of Wandal Production is in development with Schengen Story directed by Peter Bebjak.
04-11-2014

Lithuanian Director Returns to Crowdfunding

VILNIUS: Young Lithuanian producer/director Romas Zabarauskas is turning to crowdfunding for his third film, You Can’t Escape Lithuania.
04-11-2014

Tallinn Gets Third Multiplex

TALLINN: The capital city of Estonia, Tallinn (population 430,000), is to get a third multiplex cinema in 2015. The new cinema will have six screens and a total capacity of…
03-11-2014

FESTIVALS: Bratislava IFF Spotlights Slovak Films

BRATISLAVA: Six Slovak films will screen in the Made in Slovakia section of the Bratislava IFF running 7-14 November 2014.
03-11-2014

FNE TV: Vladimer Katcharava head of 20 Steps Productions

FNE spoke to Georgian producer Vladimer Katcharava who heads the Tbilisi based production outfit 20 Steps about shooting films in Georgia and his work as a coproducer on Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s…
31-10-2014

Czech Sirena Film Coproducing Danish drama Tordenskiold

PRAGUE: Shooting of Danish feature Tordenskiold, which started on Czech locations 13 October 2014, is scheduled to wrap 18 November.
31-10-2014

The Passing Bells to premiere on TVP and BBC

WARSAW: A new TVP and BBC Worldwide co-production is an epic drama set during WWI. It will premiere this November both in UK and Poland. The show's Polish producer is…
31-10-2014

Gods Tops One Million Admissions

WARSAW: Gods, the winner of the 39th Gdynia Film Festival has racked up 1.149 m admissions within three weeks since its premiere.
31-10-2014

PRODUCTION: Šerbedžija Begins Shooting The Liberation of Skopje

ZAGREB: The Macedonian-Croatian-Finnish coproduction The Liberation of Skopje, the first feature directed by the Croatian-born Hollywood star Rade Šerbedžija (Mission Impossible II, Eyes Wide Shut, Before the Rain), started principal…
31-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Nine Films Compete in Bratislava

BRATISLAVA: A Czech film and a Slovak-Czech coproduction are among the films screening in the 16th Bratislava IFF competition of first and second films.
31-10-2014