FESTIVALS: Sleepwalkers award winners announced at the opening of 16th Black Nights Film Festival

TALLINN: Sleepwalkers Student and Short Film Festival (www.swff.ee 12-15 November 2012) has announced its award winners for 2012.
16-11-2012

FNE IDF Doc Bloc: IDF Sends CEE Docs to IDFA

PRAGUE: Documentary films and projects from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Georgia, and Slovenia are among the 14 titles that the Institute of Documentary Film is sending to the 2012…
16-11-2012

New Russian studio already Glavkino fully booked until end of 2012

MOSCOW: Glavkino Studios (www.galvkino.ru), Russia’s newest state-of-the art digital film and studio complex has announced that it is already fully booked until the end of 2012. The strong uptake from…
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FESTIVALS: Festival on Wheels Announces 2012 Programme

ANKARA: The 18th Festival on Wheels (www.festivalonwheels.org), 30 November – 10 December 2012, unveiled nine outstanding films that will screen in the Turkish Cinema 2012 section.
15-11-2012

FNE at Bratislava IFF 2012: MPhilms Premiering Fine, Thanks and Developing 20th Anniversary Film

BRATISLAVA: The young Slovak production house MPhilms (www.mphilms.sk) is completing postproduction on its first feature film Fine, Thanks ahead of a 31 January 2013 premiere, while handling an ambitious and…
15-11-2012

PRODUCTION: I, Olga Hepnarova in Preparation

PRAGUE: Czech filmmakers Tomas Weinreb and Petr Kazda are preparing with their first feature I, Olga Hepnarova which they will co-direct and coproduce through Black Balance (www.blackbalance.eu), the company they…
15-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Touch of Angel in Production

WARSAW: The first Polish documentary shot with the Red Epic camera, Touch of Angel (Dotknięcie anioła), a biopic about a Jewish family’s dramatic exodus from Poland, is in production. The…
15-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Slovak Doc Salto Mortale in Postproduction

BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Anabela Žigová is in postproduction with her first full-length documentary, Salto Mortale, scheduled to premiere in 2013.
15-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Kills on Wheels

COTTBUS: Hungarian producer Judit Stalter of Lakoon Film (www.lakoonfilm.com) and writer/director Attila Till are in development with Kills on Wheels, the first coproduction between Hungary and Denmark
15-11-2012

Czechs expect approval of new cinematography law despite veto

PRAGUE: Despite a veto by Czech President Vaclav Klaus earlier this week of a new law redefining support for audiovisual production and cinematography Czech industry professionals have assured partners that…
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PRODUCTION: Wajda Attached to And There Was Love in the Ghetto

Director/cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska is directing a documentary essay based on a book written by the Polish resistance commander Marek Edelman and Paula Sawicka, with Anna Wydra and the Polish company…
14-11-2012

Czech Company Endorfilm With Ambitious Coproduction Slate

PRAGUE: Jiři Konečný and Endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz) are preparing a new project with Slovenian director Olmo Omerzu. The project follows their successful cooperation on A Night Too Young/ Prílis mladá noc.
14-11-2012

Poland Begins Switch from Analogue TV

WARSAW: The Lubuskie Voivodeship in Eastern Poland became to first area to shut off analogue TV transmitters at the beginning of November 2012, with the entire country scheduled to follow…
14-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: Mellow Mud

COTTBUS: Mellow Mud from debuting Latvian director Remars Vimba and producers Aija Berzina and Alise Gelze of Tasse Film (www.tasse.lv) emerged as one of the strongest contenders at the Connecting…
14-11-2012

FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2012: House of Others

COTTBUS: Georgian director Rusudan Glurjidze and her coproducer Zurab Magalashvili of Cinetech Production (www.cinetech.ge) pitched a Cuacasus post-war drama, House of Others, at the 14th edition of Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de).
14-11-2012

EMERGING PRODUCER: Slovakia’s Tomas Kaminsky

BRATISLAVA: Slovak documentary producer Tomas Kaminsky tackled the controversial subject of minority issues in his first full-length film, The Gypsy Vote directed by Jaro Vojtek, while infusing it with liberal…
14-11-2012

Czech TV, Prima To Launch New Channels

PRAGUE: Czech Television (www.ceskatelevize.cz) will begin broadcasts of its new children’s channel in mid-2013, Czech TV general director Petr Dvořák announced.
13-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Vilnius-to-London Road Movie Documentary Starts Pre-production

VILNIUS: Lida, Vanda, Liusia, an Anglo-Lithuanian coproduction documentary about three Lithuanian grandmothers who make a road journey from Vilnius to London, has started pre-production.
13-11-2012

Pakalnina Preps Docs, Premieres Feature

RIGA: Latvian director/writer Laila Pakalnina is prepping two new doc productions while her new feature Pizzas premieres in competition at the Rome Film Festival.
13-11-2012

FNE at Cottbus Film Festival 2012: Poland Takes Top Prizes in Cottbus

COTTBUS: A strong Polish presence at the 22nd Film Festival Cottbus (www.filmfestivalcottbus.de) was validated with three of the festival’s top awards, including the main best film award with a prize…
12-11-2012