Bulgarian National Television Reopens Second Channel
SOFIA: The second channel of public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) launched in 1975 and cancelled in 2000 for financial reasons will restart on 3 October 2011. Previous known as…
FESTIVALS: 30th Bulgarian “Golden Rose” Festival Gets National Funding
SOFIA: The Bulgarian National Film Centre (www.nfc.bg) announced that despite the severe financial crisis it will organize the 30th edition of the Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film "Golden Rose" in…
Bulgarian Three Shooting on Black Sea Coast
SOFIA: The debut film Three written and directed by Kiril Stankov is near the end of a four week shoot. The 60 member crew has been filming primarily in small…
TV News Channel Starts Broadcasting in Bulgaria
SOFIA: Bulgaria On Air, registered as part of the Bulgaria On Air Media Group (www.bgonair.bg), will begin broadcasting its 24 hour program on 9 September 2011. According to the Media…
Bulgarian TV Advertising Income on the Rise
The Bulgarian Be Media Consultant agency reported that during the first half of 2011 the TV ad market was able to maintain a 78% share of the total domestic market.…
New Series Compete on Bulgarian Market
SOFIA: Public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) and the largest private broadcaster BTV (www.btv.bg) are both behind major advertising campaigns for their new competing series: The English Neighbor (BNT) and…
PRODUCTION: Zincograph Shooting in Sofia
SOFIA: Vladislav Todorov's film adaptation of Zincograph based on his novel started its long awaited shoot on 9 August 2011 and will end on 11 September. Production will take place…
Bulgarian Series Bows in Macedonia
SOFIA: The original hit Bulgrian TV series Glass House produced by bTV premiered in Macedonia to unanimously positive reviews.
The Expendable Sequel Set for Bulgarian Shoot
SOFIA: The sequel to The Expendables, with an all-star cast including Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke, Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme, Dolph…
Obituary: Binka Zhelyazkova
SOFIA: Bulgarian film director Binka Zhelyazkova, the leading woman filmmaker of her generation, has died at age 88.
Bulgarian TV Gets Additional Funding
SOFIA: Bulgaria's Council of Ministers (www.government.bg) voted to give a subsidy of 950,000 BGN (485,727 euros) to public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) for 2011. The money is in addition…
TP Emitel Gets Polish Digital Contract
WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster TVP has signed a contract with TP Emitel to be the operator of MUX 1, the first multiplex of frequencies for Polish digital ground television, to…
Bulgarian Films Head to Sarajevo Film Festival
SOFIA: Bulgarian films continue their international success story with seven Bulgarian films due to participate in the 17th edition of Sarajevo Film Festival (22-30 July 2011) in the capital of…
Bulgaria’s National Film Center Reopens Grants Sessions
SOFIA: The National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) will hold a grants session during the second half of 2011. Due to heavy financial restrictions the normal selection process of the film finding…
Bulgaria Debates Amendment to TV and Radio Act
SOFIA: Legal proposals to repeal restrictions to prime time advertising and product placement on Bulgarian National Television (BNT, www.bnt.bg) and Bulgarian National Radio (www.bnr.bg) have passed a first reading at…
Cinema City Plans Second Sofia Multiplex
SOFIA: Cinema City International's Bulgarian unit has leased space in the Paradise Center shopping mall in Sofia with plans to open a multiplex at the end of 2011. The ten-year…
Love.net Tops Bulgarian Box Office
Bulgaria's first IT romantic drama Love.net (www.themovielove.net) is on its way to become the country's second most successful film. By the end of the 14th week in distribution the film…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: Sneakers
Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, screens in competition in Karlovy Vary's East of the West section, following a slot in the main competition…
FNE at KVIFF East of the West Competition: There Was Never a Better Brother
Murad Ibragimbekov's newest film There Was Never a Better Brother is the result of the director‘s latest artistic collaboration with Maksud Ibragimbekov, one of Azerbaijan's most established writers and Murad‘s…
Bulgarian Filmmakers Appeal for Faster Reform
SOFIA: Georgy Stoyanov, the president of the Union of the Bulgarian filmmakers, has expressed concern about delays in the adoption of a new policy for the national film sector.
