Sarajevo Cinelink announces industry awards

The 2009 Cinelink co-production market gave its EAVE scholarship to Bosnian producer Snežana Marić of Sarajevo-based Refresh Production during the Sarajevo IFF industry awards on August 20.
23-08-2009

Janosik set for triple opening

The long awaited Janosik. A True Story, directed by Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik, will have gala premieres across Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic beginning August 26.
23-08-2009

Bratislavafilm a summer hit for Slovakia

After three weeks in Slovak distribution, the low-budget Slovak film Bratislavafilm (www.bratislavafilm.sk) has pulled in 35,667 admissions.
23-08-2009

Romanian TV channels prepare to launch

Romania will see the launch of three local channels by the end of 2009 and satellite channel Vox News in February 2010.
23-08-2009

Production: Polish slasher parody in the works

Polish independent director and producer Piotr Matwiejczyk is preparing a Polish parody of the American classic slasher film.
20-08-2009

Production: Adrienn Pál in post-production

Director Ágnes Kocsis (Friss levegő/Fresh Air) has completed filming and is in post-production with her new film, Adrienn Pál.
19-08-2009

SBS's Tellenbach moves to TVN

Markus Tellenbach, the former head of SBS Broadcasting and supervisory board chairman of Sky Deutschland, was appointed CEO and president of Poland's TVN Group.
19-08-2009

Malta station sees drop in market share

Malta TV channel Net TV saw audience share drop by nearly half in the second quarter of of 2009.
19-08-2009

Production: Hanta begins filming next week

Director Ioan Cărmăzan (The Wood Cutters, The Blue Sleigh) will begin shooting Hanta, a 100% Romanian production, on August 24.
18-08-2009

Digital TV reaches 1 million mark

Digital TV households have crossed the 1 million mark, reaching 42.4% of Hungarian households.
18-08-2009

Estonia debates cancelling TV fees

Estonia's governing coalition is moving toward cancelling $2.3 million in annual license taxes paid by Kanal2 and TV3,
18-08-2009

Lithuania announces grants

The Lithuanian Cultural State Support Fund has announced its second stage of grants.
17-08-2009

IPTV increases at cable's expense

IPTV growth doubled in 2008 and accounted for 35% of Slovenia's cable/IPTV subscriptions as of the end of Q1 2009,
17-08-2009

Production: Child-Miner in pre-production

Director/screenwriter Alexandra Gulea is in pre-production with her first feature Child-Miner (Copil-miner), with plans to begin shooting in spring 2010.
17-08-2009

Production: Russian Faust starts shooting in Prague

The Russian-German-Austrian-Czech coproduction Faust started shooting on August 17 at Točník castle in central Bohemia and in Prague's Barrandov ateliers, Barrandov Studios (www.barrandov.cz) announced.
17-08-2009

Production: The Mill And The Cross wraps shoot

Lech Majewski has finished shooting The Mill And The Cross, one of the biggest Polish productions of the year with a cast including Charlotte Rampling, Michael York and Rutger Hauer.
16-08-2009

Shooting of Wilhelm Tell: The Legend postponed

Bogdan Moncea, PR Manager at Castel Film Studios, told FNE that filming on Wilhelm Tell: The Legend has been postponed until 2010.
16-08-2009

Lithuanian box office sets record

Lithuanian cinemas was 4.53 million Litas (€1.31 million) in box office in July, 2009, the country's biggest revenues in a one month period.
16-08-2009

Darik Radio launches Bulgarian TV Channel

Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media (www.cem.bg) has issued a license to the leading radio station, Darik (http://darikradio.bg) to establish a TV channel under the name Darik Radio and TV.
13-08-2009

Latvian filmmakers support National Film Centre

Nearly 200 Latvian film professionals voiced their support for retaining the independent legal status of the National Film Centre of Latvia during demonstration on August 12.
13-08-2009