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Lionsgate has picked up the remake rights to Rest in Peace, a crime procedural from Croatia, marking the first time a Croatian format has sold to a major North American production company. Originally produced by Ring Multimedia for local public broadcaster Hrt, Rest in Peace stars Judita Frankovic (Sonja and the Bull) as a young journalist who teams up with a retired prison guard (veteran actor Miodrag Krivokapic) to investigate the secrets buried in a prison cemetery. The show has garnered critical acclaim for its examination of Croatia's troubled past – including during the Yugoslav war and under communist dictatorship.

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First films on offer are Beast Paradise and The First Rasta.

Wide Management’s Eye on Films label is launching the first online film festival in Croatia, hosted on the online platform tportal.hr under the name of Nedjeljna Avvantura na tportalu, aspart of the MAXtv Filmofeel project. The Dailymotion player technology will be used.

Croatian audiences will have free access to two films per week on Sunday evenings, one fiction and one documentary. The first two films launched last evening are Beast Paradise by Estelle Larrivaz and The First Rasta by Helene Lee and Christophe Farnarier.

Catchup streams will cost .99

Coordinators of the project are Zvjezdana Sekutor and Zeljka Kolak from Croatian Telecom, Sergej Stanojkovski from Festival Avvantura Zadar, and with the support of Judita Frankovic, godmother of EoF label.

Produced by Flame47, Hunger is a horror short that will show at the New York Horror Film Festival this Friday. The show starts at 7:30 and Hunger was shot mostly in the dark and winding streets of Croatia. Daniel Betts, Nadia Cameron-Blakely and Zarko Pusic show off their talents in this mysterious thriller that may or may not involve vampires. Have a look at the plot and trailer, for this tale of redemption, inside.

A synopsis for Hunger here:

"Stranded for the night in a foreign city, Saul (Daniel Betts) is a businessman who’s given up on all his hopes for the future, in his own words he is ‘existing, not living’...

When the city proves hostile, dangerous and confusing, Saul retreats into its labyrinthine backstreets, where a chance encounter with a mysterious and seductive woman (Nadia Cameron-Blakey) seems to offer an escape. What Saul takes initially to...