PRODUCTION: Slovak Documentary Indiano from Zihlava

BRATISLAVA: Miro Remo is in production with Indiano from Zihlava, a long documentary on the amateur Slovak films of the late 1970's.

The directors of hundreds of such films "tried to express themselves creatively in a time when any permitted self-realization and public presentation fell under the ideological surveillance of the Communist Party.

04-07-2012

PRODUCTION: Hungarian Debut Heavenly Shift in Preproduction

BUDAPEST: Márk Bodzsár will begin filming his first feature, Heavenly Shift, at the end of August 2012.

The film, described as a sort of „Fargo meet Pulp Fiction," follows a young refugee from the Yugoslavian wars who get involved in the funeral business as a trainee for Hungarian paramedics in order to finance his fiancée's rescue from the war.

04-07-2012

PRODUCTION: Vanishing Waves in KVIFF’s East of the West

VILNIUS: The Lithuanian production company Tremora (www.tremora.com) sends it newly completed film Vanishing Waves to compete in the East of the West section of the Karlovy Vary IFF (www.kviff.com), running through 7 July 2012. The film's world premiere screenings are on 3 July and 5 July.

03-07-2012

PRODUCTION: Catalin Mitulescu's El Rumano in Development

BUCHAREST: Romanian producer, screenwriter and director Catalin Mitulescu (The Way I Spent the End of the World, Loverboy) plans to shoot his third feature, El Rumano, in autumn 2013.

Details about the story have not been disclosed at this time, since the first draft is not yet finished, but the script that won a production grant from the National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) in 2010 dealt with love and loneliness as a 40-something Romanian living in Spain has to face a strange proposition.

 

01-07-2012

PRODUCTION: Green Dog in Development

ZAGREB: The Croatian company Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr) is developing a cinematic adaptation of the novel Green Dog written by Nada Mihelcic. No director is attached yet.

Green Dog/ Zeleni pas is a tragiccomedy for teenagers about a colourful family confronted with the drug addiction that affecte the eldest daughter. Told from the point of view of the 13-year-old middle sister, the story "is a mixture of wit and humour played against the tragic background," producer Ivana Simic told FNE.

 

27-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Sonja and the Bull

ZAGREB: Vlatka Vorkapic's debut film, a romantic comedy titled Sonja and the Bull, will open the National Programme of the 59th Pula Film Festival (www.pulafilmfestival.hr) on 21 July 2012.

27-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Szabolcs Hajdu Preps Mirage

{mosimage}BUDAPEST: Acclaimed Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdu (White Palms, Bibliothèque Pascal) is in preparation with a Hungarian/ Slovak/British coproduction, Mirage, a drama exploring the Hungarian Puszta and the way the Hungarians relate with people from different cultures.

24-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Debut Tak Fajn in Postproduction

{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Paul Janik makes his directing debut with the comedy Tak Fajn after appearing in films and on TV since the age of 4, and spending 16 years in NYC, some of them working for NBC.

21-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Romanian Adrian Sitaru to Shoot his First Film in English

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: A cinematic adaptation of Fiona Campbell's bestseller Death of a Salaryman is in early development at the London based company Vernon Films with two time BAFTA winning director Adrian Sitaru and a budget of GBP 4 m.

20-06-2012

PRODUCTION: New Matej Minac project A History of a Film Never Shot in Development

{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Slovak filmmaker Matej Mináč (All My Loved Ones, Nicky's Family) is developing a docu comedy based on real life events and retracing the history of his unfulfilled dream to finish a portrait on Federico Fellini that he began in 1989.

20-06-2012

ANIMATION PRODUCTION: Czechs Comics Classics Quarterfoil in Production

{mosimage}PRAGUE: Czech filmmaker Michal Žabka is shooting his animation feature debut, Quarterfoil, based on a popular Czech comic book series that dates back to the 1970's.

Quarterfoil (Čtyřlístek), with a 1 million euro budget, is produced by Miloslav Šmídmajer´s Bio Illusion (www.bioillusion.cz).

"There were actually many filmmakers and producers who tried to get the rights for Quarterfoil. But it was our company that the distribution company Cinemart (www.cinemart.cz) -- which had the rights -- proposed at the end. From the beginning I knew that I did not want to do a TV serie but a real animation feature," Šmídmajer said.

19-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Iho in Production

{mosimage}BUCHAREST: Eliza Zdru is shooting Iho, a 52 minute documentary on four elderly Aromanians from Cogealac, a small village near Constanţa, Romania, who sing polyphonic archaic music. ("Iho" means "melody" in the Aromanian dialect.).

18-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Stanko in Preproduction

{mosimage}BRATISLAVA: Rasto Boros is preparing to shoot the feature film Stanko in Slovakia, Austria and Italy in summer-fall 2012.

On the background of the topic of human trafficking, this road movie will highlight the self-delusion and dreams of people from periphery of society, while also looking at the topic of frienship and betrayal.

18-06-2012

FNE IDF DocBloc: Czech-Italian Terezin Film Goes into Production

PRAGUE: Wolf, a Czech/Italian documentary coproduction with a Holocaust theme will be filmed over the summer. Italian producer Marta Donzelli (Vivo Film) working with Czech producer Radim Procházka (Produkce Radim Procházka, www.radimprochazka.com).

14-06-2012

PRODUCTION: Die Hard 5 Shooting in Hungary

BUDAPEST: The fifth installment of Die Hard directed by John Moore is currently shooting in Budapest through August 2012.

11-06-2012

DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION: Vojtek Filming Children

 

BRATISLAVA: Jaroslav Vojtek (The Border) started shooting his first feature in May 2012. If in his documentary Unwanted Children/ Nechcené deti (2001) he was dealing with children from foster homes, he is now telling four individual stories about the complicated relationships between parents and children in modern Slovakia.

10-06-2012