PRODUCTION: Cătălin Mitulescu Shooting Rumeno
BUCHAREST: Cătălin Mitulescu started shooting his third feature on 21 July 2014. Rumeno is a Romanian/Swedish/Italian coproduction which will be presented in the Venice Film Market.
FNE at New Horizons Polish Days 2014: New Polish Projects Showcased
WROCLAW: A special industry event showcases nine up-coming Polish projects were showcased at the Polish Days during the 14 T-Mobile New Horizons Festival held 24 July-3 August 2014. New titles…
Creative Europe Expands in the Balkans
Three new countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, have signed agreements to participate in the EU’s Creative Europe programme.
FNE IDF Doc Bloc: Tatjana in Motherland
Miha Celar creates a partially animated Slovenian documentary. Click HERE to read full article on DOKweb
CME Back on Track under New Management
PRAGUE: Central European Media Enterprises (CME) posted increases in net revenues for the Q2 2014, up almost 17% at for the three month period at 204.9 m USD and 16%…
Romanian Domestic Film Attendance on the Decline
BUCHAREST: Domestic attendance for the Romanian films was down in the first seven months of 2014 compared to 2013, with the youth comedy #Selfie contributing with more than a half…
Petr Zelenka Starts Shooting Lost in Munich
PRAGUE: Petr Zelenka kicked off the shooting of his long-prepared absurd comedy Lost in Munich.
PRODUCTION: Mellow Mud Wraps Summer Shooting
RIGA: Latvian director's Renārs Vimba debut feature Mellow Mud has finished its summer production shoot, producers Alise Ģelze and Aija Bērziņa said.
Game of Thrones Season 5 to Shoot in Croatia
ZAGREB: The fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones will be shot in new locations in Dalmatia, including Šibenik and Imotski this fall.
Bulgarian National Film Center to Fund Low Budget Films
SOFIA: For the first time since its establishment in 1991 the Bulgarian National Film Center will support low budget feature films, with up to 200,000 EUR per project. The application…
PRODUCTION: Bodo Kox Developing Children’s Film
WARSAW: Polish filmmaker Bodo Kox will make his first foray into youth oriented cinema with Three Cousins, an adaptation of the bestselling children’s novel Felix, Net, Nika And The Three…
MECEFF Announces Line-up
BUCHAREST: The 4th edition of Mediaş Central European Film Festival (2-6 September), the only festival in Romania focusing on Central European cinema, announced the seven films competing for the festival's…
FESTIVALS: Czech Summer Film School Honours Greenaway
UHERSKE HRADISTE: British director Peter Greenaway has received the prize of the Association of Czech Film Clubs (AČFK) at the 40th edition of the Summer Film School (LFS) running through…
FESTIVALS: Concrete Night and Number 55 Win at Pula IFF
PULA: Pirjo Honkasalo's Concrete Night / Betoniyö has been awarded Golden Arena for Best Feature Film in the International Programme of the 61st Pula IFF, 12-26 July 2014. Number 55…
GRANTS: Georgian Animation Grants Announced
TBILISI: The Georgian National Film Fund (GNFC) has announced the winners of the competition for grants national development finance for animated short films. GNFC allotted 10,568EUR/25,000GEL for five out of…
FESTIVALS: T-Mobile New Horizons Kicks
WROCLAW: The 14th edition of T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival kicked off last night opened by festival director Roman Gutek and the screening of Argentine director Damián Szifrón’s Wild…
IDF DocBloc: Czechs Back Zeman Doc
Groundbreaking Czech animation filmmaker Karel Zeman is the subject of an upcoming Czech documentary.
FESTIVALS: Sarajevo IFF Marks 20th Anniversary
SARAJEVO: Nine films are competing in the feature competition of the 20th edition of Sarajevo IFF, including three world premieres.
Pixar’s Anthony Wong teams up with Anomalia CG animators and artists for animated short Wildlife Crossing
PRAGUE: Work on CG animated short film Wildlife Crossing! has been completed.
New Head’s for Creative Europe MEDIA and EU CULT Committee
WARSAW: Lucia Recalde Langarica has been announced as the new head of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. She succeeds Xavier Troussard who stepped down at the end of June. She…
