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 in June. Libuse Rudinska (www.rudinska.cz) is producer/director/cinematographer on the Czech TV (www.ceskatelevize.cz) coproduction. The premiere is scheduled for 12 October 2011 in Prague.

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" which is in preproduction under the title Insects. Švankmajer premiered his last film, the collage-styled Surviving Life (Přežít svůj život), at the 2010 Venice Film Festival last year.

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

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 50 days and shooting locations will be Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Vienna, London, Oradea (Romania), and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), and will be released in 2012.

04-05-2011

PRODUCTION: TVP Series Higher Power in Production

WARSAW: ATM Grupa (www.atmgrupa.pl) is producing an original new series, Higher Power, a comedy that will explore the spiritual life of Poles. Polish public broadcaster TVP (www.tvp.pl) has commissioned one season of the original Polish series written by Robert Butter and Jerzy Niemczuk.

28-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Alvernia Producing Hollywood's Arbitrage

KRAKOW: Alvernia Studios, one of the most modern Polish film studios, is co-producing and investing in Arbitrage, a drama starring Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth.

28-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Kolski in Production with Kill the Beaver

WARSAW: Acclaimed Polish director Jan Jakub Kolski is currently filming his 14th film, Kill The Beaver. Shooting started in Popielawy near Lodz at the beginning of April 2011 and will last through May.

28-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Croatian Doc Receives Romanian Funding

Croatian documentary film Gangster Loves You by director Nebojša Slijepčević and produced by Restart and Fade In received a grant of €26,000 from the Romanian National Film Fund CNC (Centrui National ai Cinematografiei) through Romanian co-producer, Subcultura production company managed by Florin Iepan.

21-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Flower Square in Production

ZAGREB: Croatian director Krsto Papić has begun shooting his feature film Flower Square (working title). Filming commenced on 10 April 2011 in Zagreb, and is scheduled to wrap on 20 May. The entire film will be shot on location in Zagreb.

18-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Apricot Island Premieres in Slovakia

BRATISLAVA: Slovak director Peter Bebjak's debut feature, Apricot Island, will hit Slovak cinemas on 14 April 2011 after four years in production.

12-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Lithuanian Co-production Blood in the Snow Wraps Shoot

VILNIUS: The Spanish-Lithuanian co-production Blood in the Snow (Sangre en la nieve) from director Gerardo Herrero will complete filming by 15 April 2011.

10-04-2011

PRODUCTION: First Polish Social Documentary Planned

One of the biggest Polish music festivals will be the topic of Opener Generation, the first Polish document made with the help of the whole community of participants. The creative team behind Opener Generation, a social documentary about the Heineken Music Open'er Festival (www.opener.pl) in Gdynia, are inviting all past participants of the event to take part in the production.

07-04-2011

PRODUCTION: The Island Completes Postproduction

SOFIA: Bulgarian director Kamen Kalev announced that the postproduction of his second feature The Island is now completed. He told FNE that the edit of the film, which was shot in the summer of 2010 on the Black sea Saint Anastasia Island, was locked in mid-February 2011 in Denmark and the postproduction was completed in Sweden.

06-04-2011

PRODUCTION: Parade Shoots in Croatia

Parade, directed by Srđan Dragojević co-produced by Serbia, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia, and funded by Eurimages, completed a week shoot on locations in Croatia. The film is co-funded by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (www.hvac.hr).

05-04-2011

PRODUCTION: TVP Drama Series Aida

WARSAW: Polish public broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP, www.tvp.pl) has commissioned the first season of Aida, a new Polish series based on a Spanish format.

04-04-2011