FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: The Mute
COTTBUS: Polish director Bartek Konopka, whose imaginative and clever 2009 documentary Rabbit a la Berlin received an Oscar nomination, presented his new project The Mute at the 2012 edition of…
FNE Exclusive: Dr Rudolf Scholten, Austrian Film Institute
Dr. Rudolf Scholten is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Film Institute Austria (www.filminstitut.at) and member of the Board of Executive Directors of Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG.
Domestic Films Conquer Dynamic Finnish Market
HELSINKI: Finnish film admissions are on track to equal or surpass the 2010 record, with 2.05 m admissions to date, a 30 percent share of the 2012 market.
Malta Lines up 2013 Foreign Films
MALTA: The Malta Film Fund (www.mfc.com.mt) distributed 239,000 EUR for domestic production and it was announced that three films are scheduled to shoot in Malta in 2013.
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…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Family Film
COTTBUS: Czech producer Jiri Konecny of endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz) teams up with FAMU (www.famu.cz) trained Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu for his second film shot in the Czech Republic, Family Film.
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Three Windows and a Hanging
COTTBUS: Kosovo made its first appearance at the Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de) pitching forum with Three Windows and a Hanging, a dramatic post-war story from leading Kosovo director Isa Qosja.
FNE AVP Live ! Rolandas Kvietkauskas Director of Lithuanian Film Centre
Scanorama Ontente: UK Baltic States CoProduction Forum. FNE asks the director of the newly established Lithuanian Film Centre (www.lfc.lt/en) about the challenges ahead for the EU’s newest national film body. …
Cinema City Posts Q3 Recovery
PRAGUE: Cinema City (www.cinemacity.nl), the largest multiplex operator in CEE, recovered most of its earlier 2012 losses in the third quarter, with revenues up 8 percent, to 74.9 m EUR,…
Polish Companies Support US Indie Projects
WROCŁAW: Five American independent films presented at the US IN PROGRESS event during the 3rd American Film Festival (www.americanfilmfestival.pl) will receive Polish support.
HBO Europe Appoints Harrison as COO
BUDAPEST: HBO Europe (www.hbo-europe.com) announced the appointment of Will Harrison to the new position of Chief Operating Officer.
Simultaneous VOD and Cinema Release for New Hrebejk Film
PRAGUE: Czech director Jan Hrebejk‘s new Fassbinder inspired feature Waste, City and Death (Opad, Mesto, Smrt) will have its premiere on 22 November 2012 in Prague cinemas and at the…
FNE AVP Live ! Nik Powell, Director of UK National Film and TV School
FNE asks Nik Powell about the future of Creative Europe and how producers in small and large countries can build effective partnerships. Read more...
FNE at IFF Bratislava: Documentaries Yield New Crop of Slovak Filmmakers
BRATISLAVA: Slovakia’s emergence as a country of talented documentary filmmakers in the past decade is attracting a young generation of directors and producers to the genre. FNE caught up with…
FESTIVALS: Black Nights FF Opens with Awards for Sleepwalkers Fest
TALLINN: The opening ceremony of 16th Black Night FF (www.poff.ee) presented awards in four competition sections of the Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival (www.swff.ee) including the Estonian national competition…
FESTIVALS: Serbia Wins LIFFe 2012
LJUBLJANA: Clip, a Serbian drama directed by Maja Milos about a teenage girl who videotapes her life on her mobile phone, took the Kingfisher Award as the best film at…
FNE at Bratislava IFF 2012: Israel, Germany, Slovakia Celebrate Awards
BRATISLAVA: A pair of films from Israel and Germany dominated the awards ceremony of the Bratislava IFF (www.iffbratislava.sk) on 15 November 2012, and Slovakia recognized its own film industry with…
FNE at BRATISLAVA IFF: Slovak Oscar Hopeful Preps Fifth Boat
BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Iveta Grofova, whose debut feature film Made in Ash was selected as Slovakia 2012 Oscar candidate, will follow up with a fiction film cast with amateur actors…
PRODUCTION: UK theatre director MacKintosh shoots debut film Mother in Poland
WARSAW: Scottish theatre director Lee Mackintosh Jones is making his feature film debut with a Mother, a UK-financed film shot in Poland.
PRODUCTION: Polish-British Coproduction in Development
WARSAW: Polish writer/producer/director Agnieszka Trzos is preparing to shoot the drama Not for Your Eyes in Poland and the UK in spring 2013.
