Veronika Kovacova: Last News

Christopher Vourlias Beta Film has added two new titles to its growing slate of titles from Central and Eastern Europe, acquiring international distribution rights to Serbian supernatural drama “Block 27” and the Czech crime series “Ultimatum,” the company announced on the eve of the Sarajevo Film Festival.Veronika Kovacova, Beta’s VP of international sales and acquisitions for Eastern Europe and Turkey, said the deals underscore the company’s continued commitment to the fast-growing region. “We are there for the creators, for the producers, to help them and to support what they want to produce,” she said.Directed by Momir Milosevic and Milica Tomovic, and produced by Belgrade-based Firefly Productions, “Block 27” is a science fiction-mystery that follows the disappearance of a teenager in Belgrade, and the search by his twin sister to find him—a journey that finds her traveling to another dimension.

Beta Film, Germany’s ZDFneo and France Télévisions have boarded Gaumont’s Ukrainian war drama In Her Car.

Beta Film, the European production and sales outfit that counts series such as Babylon Berlinand Grand Hotel in its lineup, is expanding its operations in Turkey, one of the fastest-growing regions for television production worldwide. Beta on Wednesday named Sarp Kalfaoglu its new representative for the region.