Gdynia Film Fund Supports Six New Projects

The regional Gdynia Film Fund (www.ckgdynia.pl) announced its 2011 grants. The fund will finance six productions with a total of 700,000 PLN (178,000 EUR) to support the local film industry.
10-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Bucharestless in Postproduction

BUCHAREST: Romanian director George Dorobanţu (Elevator) is in postproduction with his second film, Bucharestless, a city-vérité conceptual movie shot in Bucharest.
09-05-2011

FNE at HFW 2011: Hungarian Film Week winners

BUDAPEST: Pal Adrienn directed by Agnes Kocsis and produced by Ferenc Pusztai won the main prize for best feature film and best producer at this year's edition of the Hungarian…
09-05-2011 m

Slovak Cinema at Cannes

BRATISLAVA: The Slovak Film Institute (www.aic.sk) announced a wide-ranging presence during the Cannes Festival and the film market, ranging from young talents to closing night film stars. Slovakia presents two…
08-05-2011

Schwartzenberg Acquires Realitatea Media

BUCHAREST: Romanian-Israeli businessman Elan Schwartzenberg increased his media position, buying 90% of the shares of one of the most important Romanian TV channels, Realitatea TV (www.realitatea.net) from Sorin Ovidiu Vântu.…
08-05-2011

FESTIVALS: Polish Fest Reveals Competition Films

GDYNIA: The Polish Film Festival, taking place in Gdynia 6-11 June 2011, under its new artistic director Michał Chaciński, annouonced 12 titles selected for the main competition. The selection includes…
08-05-2011

ScripTeast at Cannes

WARSAW: ScripTeast (www.scripteast.pl), the script development workshop for experienced screenwriters from Central and Eastern Europe, will award its Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Awardduring the Cannes film festival, with the writers of…
08-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Royal Romance Shoots at MediaPro

BUCHAREST: William & Kate: A Royal Love Story, a romance biopic of the recently wed British royal couple, will begin filming at MediaPro Studios (www.mediaprostudios.com) in May 2011.
08-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Voskovec Documentary Completing Production

PRAGUE: My Father Voskovec, a 58-minute documentary on the communist exile of popular Czech actor/comic Jiri (George) Voskovec, is due to complete filming in May 2011 and move into postproduction…
05-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Švankmajer in Preproduction on Čapek´s Insects

Czech auteur and animation artist Jan Švankmajer at age 76 is preparing a film adaptation of legendary Czech playwright and novelist Karel Čapek's book "On the Life of a Beetle"…
05-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Night Boats in Production

Night Boats, a Croatian-Slovenian-Serbian coproduction directed by Igor Mirković, began shooting in Zagreb on 28 April 2011. The melodrama was written by Mirković along with Elvis Bošnjak and Ognjen Sviličić.
05-05-2011

FNE at HFW 2011: Competition Lineup

BUDAPEST: The Hungarian Film Week (www.magyarfilmszemle.hu) has announced its feature film competition line-up. The HFW which is traditionally held the first week of February was delayed this year when the…
04-05-2011

ATM Grupa Sells Ranch for Russian Remake

WARSAW: Polish production company ATM Grupa (www.atmgrupa.pl) told FNE that it is in advanced negotiations to sell the format license of its popular comedy series Ranch, which broadcasts on Polish…
04-05-2011

EFP Producers on the Move Screenings at Cannes

Bulgaria's Kamen Kalev and Hungary's Attila Csaky are among this year's European Film Promotion (www.efp-online.com) Producers on the Move who will have films and project presentations at the Cannes film…
04-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Fashion Tension Begins Filming in Hvar

ZAGREB: The Croatian feature Fashion Tension is directed by Filip Šovagović and written by Ivica Đikić and Robert Perišić began shooting on the island of Hvar on 26 April 2011.
04-05-2011

PRODUCTION: Slovak/Russian Baluansky in Preproduction

BRATISLAVA: Baluďanský, a Slovak-Russian full-length documentary written and directed by František Palonder (My Father Gulag), is in preproduction with filming to start in summer 2011. The production is scheduled for…
04-05-2011

FNE - IDF DocBlock: Mechanical Figures

Croatian producer/director Helena Bulaja explores the life and world of inventor Nikola Tesla in the interactive and animated documentary Mechanical Figures, pitched at the 2010 East European Forum.
04-05-2011

MediaPro Telenovellas Sold to USA, Russia

BUCHAREST: MediaPro Distribution announced the sale of Romanian telenovella In the Name of Honor/Iubire si onoare to Azerbaijan and to VIP2000 (www.vip2000.tv) in Latin American and North America where La…
03-05-2011

RTVS to Lay Off Over 400 Employees

BRATISLAVA: Slovak public-service Radio and Television of Slovakia (www.rtvs.sk) plans to scrap 408 jobs over the next twelve months, with the first pink slips to be delivered in just a…
03-05-2011

Juliusz Braun to Head TVP

Poland's National Broadcasting Chamber (KRRiT,.www.krrit.gov.pl) has confirmed the appointment of Juliusz Braun as president of Polish public broadcaster TVP (www.tvp.pl) beginning 6 May 2011.
03-05-2011