Central European co-productions receive Finnish funding

Co-productions from Estonia, Poland, and Bulgaria have received grants totaling €270,000 Euros from the Finnish Film Foundation.
29-04-2009

Soul draws Slovak crowds

Vladimir Balko's Soul at Peace (www.pokojvdusi), has reached nearly 115,000 admissions since its premiere on January 29, turning it into a local hit.
29-04-2009

Romania supports TrainEastFilm

Romania is backing a new one-week residential workshop in Tblisi, Georgia, for 24 debuting filmmakers with plans to direct a feature or documentary film.
29-04-2009

Fox pilot in Prague, Croatia

Breaking a dry streak in the Czech Republic, Fox began filming the pilot for Masterwork in Prague on April 28.
28-04-2009

Production: Zombie Age in preproduction

Academy Award nominated Hungarian director Geza M. Toth (Maestro) is in preproduction with the animated feature film The Zombie Age.
28-04-2009

Production: Barry Gifford brings Phantom Father to Romania

The American cult screenwriter Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts) plays a small part in The Phantom Father, the first feature from Lucian Georgescu, based on…
28-04-2009

Czech TV advertising up

Advertising spend on Czech television defied market trends, rising by 13% in March, according to a TNS Media Intelligence report cited by the Dow Jones newswire service.
28-04-2009

Romanian ad market faces steep decline

The Romanian TV ad market is predicted to drop by as much as €55 million in 2009.
27-04-2009

Telekom Slovenije launches internet TV

Slovenia's largest telecommunication company Telekom Slovenije (www.telekom.si) launched the interactive service Siol IO (io.siol.net), an interactive service providing TV via computer internet, on April 22.
27-04-2009

Production: Cristi Puiu casts himself in Aurora

Cannes and Berlin awarded Romanian director Cristi Puiu is in production with his third feature, Aurora, a crime story with the director playing the lead role himself.
27-04-2009

Czech film production soars

A packed room of industry pros showed up to scout more than 20 upcoming films, out of 60 Czech films in various stages of production, selected for the annual presentation…
26-04-2009

Slovak AV director search closes

The newly formed Slovak Audiovisual Fund closes its call for applications for the position of Director on April 27 at 15:00.
26-04-2009

Polish media bill introduced

Poland's hotly debated new media bill, which could shift public broadcasting financing from TV households to the government budgert, had its first reading at the Polish Sejm (parliament) on April…
26-04-2009

Production: Vorel shooting Billionaire

Director, scriptwriter, master of parody and trifle, and occasional actor Tomáš Vorel will finish an eight week shoot on his new film To Catch a Billionaire (Jak ulovit miliardáře) in…
23-04-2009

Production: Vorel shooting Billionaire

Director, scriptwriter, master of parody and trifle, and occasional actor Tomáš Vorel will finish an eight week shoot on his new film To Catch a Billionaire (Jak ulovit miliardáře) in…
23-04-2009

First Polish Film Commission launches in Łódź

The Association of Film Commissioners International (www.afci.org) has established its first unit in Poland, based in Łódź, to assist local and international filmmakers and encourage them to work in the…
23-04-2009

Production: Colorado Kid in postproduction

The Hungarian-British co-production Colorado Kid, the debut feature from film critic Andras Vagvolgyi B, has moved into postproductionin England.
23-04-2009

TV-stations boycot digital broadcasting

Commercial channels POP TV (http://poptv.si/), Kanal A (www.kanal-a.si) and TV Pika (www.tvpika.net) have been disconnected from Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial (dvb-t) which is controlled by public broadcaster RTV (www.rtvslo.si).
23-04-2009

Production: Mitulescu moves forward with Heart Shape Balloon

Cătălin Mitulescu is in pre-production with A Heart Shape Balloon (Un balon în formă de inimă), his second feature after the acclaimed debut How I Celebrated the End of the…
22-04-2009

Production: Mitulescu moves forward with Heart Shape Balloon

Cătălin Mitulescu is in pre-production with A Heart Shape Balloon (Un balon în formă de inimă), his second feature after the acclaimed debut How I Celebrated the End of the…
22-04-2009