{mosimage}BUDAPEST: Robert Pejo is developing Paw, an inspiring story of an amazing rescue dog and his trainer and focusing on friendship, compassion and love, producer László Kántor told FNE.

"It will be like Full Monty meeting Amelie, a tender little fable about a dog and his owner," said Kantor who is producing Mancs/Paw together with his company, Új Budapest Filmstúdió Kft (www.ujbudapestfilmstudio.hu). TV2 MTM-SBS Television (tv2.hu) is coproducing. The project received 10,000 Euro (3 million Ft) from the Hungarian National Film Fund (www.filmalap.hu). The budget is 840,000 Euro (250 million Ft).

{mosimage}WARSAW: Polish filmmaker and actor Bodo Cox has finished shooting his feature debut Girl from the Closet produced by WFDiF in co-operation with CANAL+.

SOFIA: After several years in development, Gueorgui Balabanov's 1.2 million euro fiction debut The File Petrov, a Bulgarian/German/French coproduction is in preproduction with 180,000 euros insupport from Eurimages (www.coe.int/t/dg4/eurimages).

BUCHAREST: Dead in Tombstone, an American western produced by Universal 1440 Entertainment, started shooting in Romania on 19 March 2012, through local services provider Castel Film (www.castelfilm.ro).

BUCHAREST: Laura Capatana-Juller is finishing postproduction (sound mixing) on her first film, an 80 minute observational documentary about two young sisters waiting for their parents to return from Spain where they have worked for 11 years.

{mosimage}BUDAPEST: Hungarian director Kenyeres Balint will shoot his first feature, Hier, in Morroco for seven weeeks and in Hungary for one week fall 2012.

{mosimage}KRAKOW: Polish documentary filmmaker Marcin Koszałka is midway through filming Lust Killer, a documentary about serial killers.

ZAGREB: Darko Bakliza is in development with Cricket and Antoinette, and 80 minute animated film produced by Dino Krpan and Diedra (www.diedra.hr).

ZAGREB: Dražen Žarković plans to shoot The Mysterious Boy, a sequel to the box office success Koko and the Ghosts,in November-December 2012.

ZAGREB: Tomislav Mršić plans to shoot Cowboys, a comedic drama about eight people facing their lifetime opportunity to put on a theatre production, based on a popular Croatian play.

BUCHAREST: Producer Iuliana Tarnoveţchi and Alien Film (www.alienfilm.ro) are developing Magna cum fraudae, a feature planned to shoot in Romania, Denmark, France and Spain.

The Romanian producer signed a deal memo with the France's C-Story, and is also looking for Danish and a Spanish co-producers. The project received a Robert Bosch Stiftung scholarship (www.bosch-stiftung.de) at the European Producers Workshop EAVE 2012(http://eave.org). The budget is 1.4 million Euros, Alien Film representatives told FNE.

SOFIA: A Hollywood film based on the video game of the same name Company of Heroes is spending the month of March filming in Bulgaria.

BUCHAREST: Gabriel Achim (Adalbert's Dream/Visul lui Adalbert) is developing Raw and Cooked, a political black comedy fantasy about the last days of Nicolae Ceauşescu.

The story takes place on 22 December 1989, when an engineer decides to save Ceauşescu and his wife from the lynch mob and to help them cross the border.

ZAGREB: Zvonimir Juric is developing The Reaper, a drama with four stories connected by an accidental death, produced by Ankica Juric Tilic and Kinorama (www.kinorama.hr).

PRAGUE: Producer, screenwriter, DOP and director Tomas Vorel is in production with To the Woods/ Cesta do lesa , a romantic comedy celebrating the woods, water, and hillsides, and paying tribute to farmers and the natural life.

WARSAW: Polish director Wojciech Smarzowski is following his 2011 critically acclaimed drama Rose with a crime drama, 7 Days, now filming in Warsaw.