Czech Production Proposals Flood Cinematography Fund
PRAGUE: Applications for funding for more than 400 Czech film project proposals have poured into the online site of the Czech Cinematography Fund this week in the wake of the…
PRODUCTION: Solomon and Jude Team Again on Blecher project
BUCHAREST: Producer Ada Solomon, following up her Golden Bear win for Călin Netzer’s Child’s Pose, is developing an adaptation of the writings of Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher, including Scarred Hearts.…
PRODUCTION: Nvota Comedy-Drama Hostage Shooting
BRATISLAVA: The retro family story Hostage is shooting its first segments following a year's delay in what was originally planned as a winter 2012 production. Location work runs through 7…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Baby Blues
GDYNIA: Katarzyna Rosłaniec provokes with a surreal, eye-catching outlook on teenage pregnancy with Baby Blues, screening at the 38th Gdynia fest. The story centers on Natalia (Magdalena Berus), a 17-teen-year-old…
Malta Reaches Out at MIPCOM 2013
MALTA: Continuing its push to build a growing slate of international productions, the Malta Film Commission www.mfc.com.mt will be talking up its status as a film-friendly Mediteranean location as the…
Life Feels Good Scores Sales and Montreal Win
GDYNIA: Italy-based indie artfilm sales agent IntraMovies has picked up Polish drama Life Feels Good by Maciej Pieprzyca, which is celebrating victories at the 37th Montreal IFF. The film, also…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: The Closed Circuit
GDYNIA: The Polish box office hit screening at the 38th Gdynia fest is a timely polemic that takes on questionable practices in Poland's legal system, where, according to the vision…
Cinema City Boardmember Steps Down
WARSAW: The leading multiplex cinema operator in Central & Eastern Europe and in Israel has announced the resignation of Amos Weltsch, member of the board of managing directors, chief operating…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: The Zero Theorem (Competition) (UK, France, Romania)
VENICE: The distinctive vision that Terry Gilliam brings to all his films is very much in evidence in The Zero Theorem although the chaotic world the director portrays does not…
FNE at Venice Iff 2013: Walesa, Man of Hope (Out of Competition) POLAND
VENICE: The ex-Polish president and leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, stole the show as he appeared on the red carpet in Venice for the world premier of Andrzej Wajda’s biopic,…
PRODUCTION: Korean TV Crews Wrap in Ostrava
PRAGUE: A 160 member film crew from South Korea's capital Soul has wrapped their 8-day shoot in Ostrava and Prague. The project, with working title International Market, is produced by…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian FF 2013: Singing the Adria Blues
PORTOROZ: The story of a certain generation revolving around Toni Riff, the former Yugoslav rock star from the 80s who came to Slovenia during the Balkan war to marry his…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Life Feels Good
GDYNIA: Maciej Pieprzyca recounts the true story of a man who battles a disability to retain his dignity and contact with the ones he loves in his moving feature inspired…
FNE at Portoroz Slovenian FF 2013: More Scouting Mischief Leads to Laughs
PORTOROZ: The most successful domestic film in the history of Slovenian cinema has finally had its highly anticipated sequel, screening at the 16th Portoroz fest, running 11-15 September. As implied…
FNE at Gdynia Film Festival: Papusza
GDYNIA: Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna-Kos Krauze explore the fascinating story of a Roma poetess in their lush, fact-based monochrome award winner, shot over a year, screening at the 38th Gdynia…
Bulgaria Delays Analogue TV Switch-off
SOFIA: The final analogue signal switch-off originally planned for 1 September will go off 1 November because of delays in getting out vouchers for free TV converters to low-income households.
FNE at Portoroz: Chefurs Explores Migrant Tensions
PORTOROZ: With a title using the pejorative term for inhabitants of Slovenia who are of Serbian, Bosnian or Croatian descent, Chefurs raus, screening at the Portoroz fest, was also a…
FNE at Portoroz: Class Enemy Builds Suspense
PORTOROZ: A debut feature by director Rok Biček, Class Enemy, screening at the Portoroz fest, is a youth drama revolving around the suicide of a young girl. Her classmates are…
FNE focus on European Sales: Wide Management and Eye on Films
VENICE: FNE spoke to Loic Magneron president of international film sales company Wide Management and founder of the unique project Eye on Films about his strategy to bring more films…
FNE at Venice IFF 2013: Philomena UK
VENICE: Few directors can match Stephen Frears when it comes to getting just the right mixture of laughter and tears from audience and still end up with a thought provoking…
