PRODUCTION: Vinnie Jones in Lithuania UK coproduction Flight Redirected

VILNIUS: Controversial director Emilis Velyvis is working on his new action-comedy-thriller Flight Redirected, the story of four friends turned first-time robbers, who get stranded in an Eastern Europe and have to find their way back, taking on smugglers, dirty cops and fantasies.

06-12-2012

PRODUCTION: French-Polish Documentary Cenotaphe in Production

WARSAW: French director Leila Ferault-Levy and Polish producer Marcin Latałło’s Camera Obscura are in production on Cenotaphe (Pomnik), an intimate documentary on crimes of genocide committed during World War II.

03-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Fright Night 2 Shooting Entirely in Romania

BUCHAREST: Shooting for Eduardo Rodriguez's horror comedy Fright Night 2 started 25 November in Romania. 20th Century Fox (www.foxmovies.com) is producing with the Romania's Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro) providing services.

30-11-2012

PRODUCTION: On the Sea with Badjao Unites Poles, Germans and Brits

WARSAW: Polish, German and English crews are in production On the Sea with Badjao, a documentary that shows an ironic clash of cultures that knows no winner.

29-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Cieslar in Postproduction with English Lingo Colette

BRATISLAVA: Czech director Milan Cieslar is postproduction with the last work by Czech author Arnost Lustig, the screen adaptation of Lustig’s 1992 novel Colette. The film will be Cieslar’s first English language feature.

28-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Rebellion in Postproduction in Poland

WARSAW: Director Małgorzata Kozera is in postproduction with the documentary Rebellion (Bunt) focused on the biggest anti-government riots in Eastern Europe in 1989, the year of the collapse of communism. Postproduction is taking place at Vision House in Warsaw.

27-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Hirte in Postproduction with In the Name of the Mayor

BUCHAREST: Romanian born Paris-based director Anca Hirte is in postproduction with a bittersweet observational documentary In the Name of the Mayor.

23-11-2012

PRODUCTION: To Paris, with the ID in Preproduction

BUCHAREST: Şerban Marinescu is in preproduction with To Paris, with the ID, a contemporary satire about the hopes of people who thought the fall of communism would be followed by fluid integration into Europe.

21-11-2012

PRODUCTION: UK theatre director MacKintosh shoots debut film Mother in Poland

WARSAW: Scottish theatre director Lee Mackintosh Jones is making his feature film debut with a Mother, a UK-financed film shot in Poland.

16-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Polish-British Coproduction in Development

WARSAW: Polish writer/producer/director Agnieszka Trzos is preparing to shoot the drama Not for Your Eyes in Poland and the UK in spring 2013.

16-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Petr Zelenka’s CoCo Pitch Winner in Preproduction

COTTBUS: Lost in Munich directedy by Petr Zelenka, the Czech film which won the 2011 Connecting Cottbus (www.connecting-cottbus.de) Best Pitch Award, is in preproduction for a June 2013 shoot.

12-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Wrestling in Dakar in Postproduction

WARSAW: Wrestling in Dakar (Dakarskie zapasy), a Polish/French/British documentary which focuses on the first woman in the wrestling business, promoter and politician Ndeye Ndiaye Tyson, and two young Senegalese wrestlers, is in postproduction.

08-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Anca Damian Develops Eden Hotel

BUCHAREST: Following the international success of the animated documentary Crulic: The Path to Beyond, director Anca Damian is developing Eden Hotel, a psychological drama she is also producing through Aparte Film (www.apartefilm.net).

08-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Georgian-French Dzma in Production

TBILISI: Dzma, a coproduction from Georgia and France has started filming in Tbilisi.

05-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Mythmaking in Postproduction

JIHLAVA: Jan Gogola, Jr.'s new documentary is an intimate portrait of the contemporary Czech artist Kateřina Šeda who is binding ordinary people through projects combining art and social initiative. Jiři Konečný is producing through endorfilm (www.endorfilm.cz).

05-11-2012

PRODUCTION: Georgian doc See You in Chechnya in Production

JIHLAVA: Georgian director/producer Alexander Kvatashidze is in production with a feature documentary on war correspondents. The film will be a Georgian-Dutch-Estonian-French coproduction.

30-10-2012