Bulgaria's Vivacom launches digital TV
The Bulgarian telecom company Vivacom will begin digital transmission on September 1, the company announced.
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian animation The Blood goes into production
Bulgarian animation director, writer, art director and VFX artist Velislava Gospodinova started working on the animated film The Blood Gospodinova is the director of animation film The Lighthouse currently making…
Bulgarian National TV elects new managing board
The newly appointed Director General of the Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg) Viara Ankova proposed to the Council of Electronic Media (www.cem.bg) a new Board of management. According to national legislation,…
PRODUCTION: The Island begins filming in Bulgaria
Model and actress Laetitia Casta began a nine week shoot August 10 on Kamen Kalev's second feature The Island. She plays a French journalist and girlfriend of a businessman with…
Bulgarian TV market drops
Bulgarian TV market fell by 8.6%, according to the latest report of the monitoring agency TNS/TV Plan and the TV advertising Top 10. CME (www.cetv-net) station bTV (www.btv.bg) registered a…
Bulgarian National TV names new director
After three days of intense public hearings, the five members of the Council of Electronic Media (www.cem.bg) elected Viara Ankova as Director General of Bulgarian National Television (www.bnt.bg). The vetting…
Eastern Plays wins Bulgarian film awards
The freshly founded Film Academy announced its first annual awards with Eastern Plays (www.easternplays.com) winning film of the year, topping the list of eleven 2009 feature films. The same film…
CME merges Bulgarian TV management
Central European Media Enterprises (CME, www.cetv-net.com) plans to merge the news departments of its Bulgarian television channels. CME acquired 100% ownership of terrestrial bTV channel (www.btv.bg) and genre channels, bTV…
Bulgaria cuts film funding
Bulgaria will reduce public film funding in 2010 to €4 million instead of €9,.5 million. The Bulgarian Parliament (www.parliament.bg) approved a mid-year revised budget, the first since 1997, which according…
Mission London set to break even
Bulgarian national box office hit Mission London is close to breaking even on its origina 1.5 million Euro investment, with over 310,000 viewers since its mid-April opening.
FNE at Cannes: EFP Producer on the Move Kamen Kalev
Bulgaria's Kamen Kalev won international attention with his first film as both director and producer, Eastern Plays.
Mission London becomes a Bulgarian box office hit
Alek Popov's and Dimitar Mitovski's €1,350,000 Bulgarian feature Mission London (www.mission-london.com) surpassed 143,000 admissions in its second week in distribution.
Israel Theatres Takes Over Cinema City International in Bulgaria
Israel Theatres has agreed to buy Cinema City International in Bulgaria (www.cinemacity.bg) for approximately 85m Euros.
Bulgaria’s Zincograph selected by Cannes L'Atelier
Vladislav Todorov's and Yavor Gardev's political psycho-thriller Zincograph is the first Bulgarian feature project ever chosen by the Cannes Cinéfondation (www.festival-cannes.com/fr/cinefoundation) L'Atelier networking program.
PRODUCTION: Conan filming in Bulgaria
The Nu Image/Millennium/Lionsgate Conanremake starring Jason Momoa has begun a 12-week shoot in Sofia.
PRODUCTION: Bulgarian Love.net ends shooting
The first national IT romantic drama Love.net ended a three part shooting that took place between October 29, 2009 and March 29, 2010.
Bulgaria predicts 10% ad decline
The Association of Bulgarian Advertising Agencies (www.arabulgaria.org) predicts that in 2010 the Bulgarian media market will fall by at least 10%.
PRODUCTION: Hunting Down Small Predators in postproduction
Hunting Down Small Predators, the first feature film by director/actor Tzvetodar Markov, is in he final stages of postproduction.
Bulgarian daily sells national features on DVD
Bulgaria's National Film Center this month is funding production of 100,000 DVD's of 12 Bulgarian features for sale with a daily national newspaper.
FYROM takes Sofia pitching award
The Nu Boyana Film Studios award for best pitching at the Sofia Meetings ‘Second Films Pitching' Programme was handed out to the project Kalabalak by Sasha Damjanovski (UK, Former Yugoslavian…
