Dzift selected for Oscar entry from Bulgaria

Javor Gardev's provocative neo-noir debut Dzift, which won a best director prize at the Moscow fim festival, is Bulgaria's bid for an Oscar nomination.
21-09-2008

News Corp may sell Central European stations

The Bulgarian news service Novinte reports that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation will likely sell its Bulgarian station bTV by the end of 2008.
28-08-2008

Bulgarian crew detained

Three members of a Bulgarian National TV crew were arrested in Macedonia while filming in the town of Bitola on August 15.
18-08-2008

Sweden's MTG buys Bulgarian channel Nova TV

Sweden's Modern Times Group, MTG (STO: MTGA, MTGB), announced the purchase of Bulgarian commercial channel Nova TV for 620 million Euros.
03-08-2008

CME acquires two Bulgarian stations

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. ("CME") (Nasdaq/Prague Stock Exchange: CETV) announced the purchase of an 80% interest in two Bulgarian television channels, TV2 and Ring TV, for $172 million (110…
03-08-2008

Nu Image and Nu Boyana bring Hollywood to Bulgaria

The 4th Kind and Command Performance are keeping locally based production companies Nu Boyana film studio, Millenium Films, Nu Image, and producer Gold Circle Films busy with action thrillers this…
25-07-2008

Bulgarian film support announced

Bulgarian films have received a total of over 5.4 million Euros in support from the Bulgarian National Film Center (www.nfc.bg).
14-07-2008

BUFO wraps The Hills Run Red in Bulgaria

The $4.5 million (€2.8 million) Bulgarian Unified Film Organization (BUFO) production of The Hills Run Red wrapped filming in Sofia and surrounding areas in early July.
13-07-2008

Kids Channel Launches in Bulgaria

HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia's pre-school channel JimJam will launch in Bulgaria in July. The channel is first launched internationally seven months ago, and has a Central and East European feed.
02-07-2008

Bulgarian Short Film Festival opens in Balchik

The sixth International Short Film Festival takes place in the Black Sea town of Balchik June 23-30. The competitive programme consists of 185 short films from 72 countries.
22-06-2008

Advertising fuels Bulgarian media growth

Never mind the relatively high number of TV channels in Bulgaria (195): two more are to start regular broadcasts. The first is the satellite channel of Nova TV, Nova+, aiming…
15-06-2008

Open Class Cinema Forum celebrates 10th anniversary in Sofia

The newest installment of Patrick Sandrin's film conference initiative "Regards sur le monde" (started in 2005), Impressions of Africa, attracted researchers and film lovers this weekend at the Sfumato Theatre…
04-06-2008

Festival of European Co-productions opens May 30 in Bulgaria

The 13th Festival of European Co-productions opens May 30 in Sofia and runs until June 8. Organized by the Bulgarian National Film Center, this year's festival runs concurrently with a…
28-05-2008

Bulgaria to get second HDTV service

Cable provider CableTEL is to launch a new four-channel HDTV service within the month. The announcement follows rival Eurocom's plan to launch three HDTV channels.
22-05-2008

Warner Bros Dubs Moonlight at Graffitti Studio

Sofia's Graffitti Studio has completed dubbing for the Warner Bros TV series Moonlight. It was the first U.S. studio contract for the Bulgarian sound studio.
21-05-2008

Bulgarian director wins HBO prize at Hot Docs

Bulgarian director Boris Despodov won HBO's first Emerging Artist Award for his film Corridor #8 at Canada's Hot Docs festival.
28-04-2008

Open Class discusses industry changes

The latest of the Open Class seminars has wound up in Sofia after playing host to a number of Bulgarian filmmakers, researchers and students. The two-day seminars are organized by…
24-04-2008

Festival time in Bulgaria

Three mini film festivals are playing in Bulgaria this week, with Czech and Nordic films featured in Sofia and a week of Moroccan cinema in Varna.
13-04-2008

Nu Boyana unveils expansion plan

The board of directors of Nu Boyana Film Studios has unveiled plans to construct 10 new ultramodern stages, one of them larger than 5,000 square metres, as part of a…
10-04-2008

Nu Boyana to finance Bulgarian student films

Bulgaria's Nu Boyana Studios has signed a cooperation agreement with the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) under which it will provide €35,000 to finance student films made…
03-04-2008