EFP Producer on the Move: Slovakia's Peter Kerekes

The Austrian-Slovak-Czech documentary film Cooking History (Ako sa varia dejiny) was five year in the making, but for producer/director Peter Kerekes, the selection as a Producers on the Move in…
11-05-2009

Smatlak to direct new Slovak film fund

Martin Smatlak has been chosen as the first director of the new Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
11-05-2009

Estonia at Marche du Film

ESTONIA will be taking part of Marche du Film this year again, as a part of Baltic Films organization. The Estonian/Baltic Films stand is in the Palais Riviera, number E12.
10-05-2009

EFP Producer on the Move: Romania's Daniel Mitulescu

Daniel Mitulescu, the 30 year old brother of director Cătălin Mitulescu, melds film producing with film distribution, and events coordination with festival programming.
10-05-2009

New journey begins for Czech film quartet

Lukáš Přibyl's four-part labor of love that began with his family history, the Czech feature documentary series Forgotten Transports, is ready to set out on its final journery: the international…
10-05-2009

RealD and Sony 3D launch in Romania

At the beginning of May, Bucharest Hollywood Multiplex and Cinema Pro became the first cinemas in Romania to run the latest version of digital system and 3D from Sony and…
10-05-2009

MEDIA slate funding for Libra

Libra Film Productions (http://www.librafilm.net/) is the first Romanian company to receive MEDIA Programme development funding, a total of €136,200 for a slate of 5 films.
07-05-2009

EFP Producer on the Move: Poland's Andrzej Jakimowski

Independent Polish filmmaker/producer Andrzej Jakimowski, will arrive in Cannes for EFP's Producers on the Move with his new project The Touch, now in development.
07-05-2009

Gatteo moves into production

Film Studio Gatteo is gearing up for its debut as a film producer, after working for three years on Juraj Herz's psychological thriller T.M.A.
07-05-2009

Osadne locks up TV sales

Slovak producer Marko Škop (Blind Loves) is wrapping postproduction on the full-length documentary Osadne, which will premiere at Karlovy Vary (www.kviff.com) (July 3-11, 2009) in the documentary competition.
07-05-2009

Production: Counting Sheep nears end of filming

Romanian-Irish co-production Counting Sheep, from director Dieter Auner, will complete a one-year filming schedule by the end of May.
07-05-2009

EFP Producer on the Move: Hungary's Gabor Sipos

Laokoon Film's Hungarian Producer on the Move Gabor Sipos, age 32, grew up surrounded by the film production business.
06-05-2009

Eastern Plays bows in Cannes

Shot in five weeks in Sofia and Istanbul, Kamen Kalev's debut Eastern Plays, a look at Sofia's underground youth life, screens at Director's Fortnight before its fall release in Bulgaria.
06-05-2009

Production: Romania debut Whistle in production

When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, the first feature from Florin Şerban, will complete his shooting by May 10 at the Romanian seaside.
06-05-2009

Production: Czech-Slovak-Irish debut in post-production

Foxes (Lištičky) (www.listicky.cz), a co-production from Slovakia, Ireland and the Czech Republic written and directed by first time director Mira Fornay, has completed a half year shoot on locations in…
06-05-2009

Economic dowturn brings slump in Estonia’s advertising market

With the economy expected to shrink by a whopping 10% this year, ad revenues in TV and other media are facing sudden downturns in Estonia.
05-05-2009

EFP Producer on the Move: Czech Republic's Monika Kristl

Monika Kristl was only 22 years old when she became a principal producer and managing director of the Prague-based international production services company Dawson Production (www.dawson.cz) in 1996.
05-05-2009

Regional fund plans September launch

Poland's Masovian region will launch a 1 million zloty (€230,000) regional film fund in September, 2009, after officially signing the fund in late April.
05-05-2009

Hungarian Comedy Central expands to 24 hours

Hungarian language Comedy Central (www.comedycentral.hu) extends its broadcast to 24 hours effective May 1, owner MTV Networks Hungary announced.
05-05-2009

Production: Broken Promise

SPI ( www.spi-film.sk) is handling distribution of Broken Promise, a Slovak/Czech co-production from Czech comedy director Jiri Chlumsky.
05-05-2009