FESTIVALS: FIAPF Accredits Transilvania Film Festival
BERLIN: The General Assembly of the International Federation of Film Producers' Associations (FIAPF), meeting in Berlin, approved the accreditation of the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2011. TIFF was…
PRODUCTION: Flying Lessons in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Igor Cobileanski (Tache) is currently editing his second feature, Flying Lessons/La limita de jos a cerului, a bittersweet drama about the friendship of two small-time drug dealers in a…
PRODUCTION: Adalbert's Dream in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Gabriel Achim is currently in postproduction with his first feature Adalbert's Dream, a black comedy set on 8 May 1986, when Romania was usually celebrating the anniversary of the…
PRODUCTION: Looking For A Mare's Nest in Postproduction
BUCHAREST: Dan Chişu's third feature, Looking for a Mare's Nest/Şi caii sunt verzi pe pereţi, is currently in post-production and will be finished in March 2011, in time to be…
New Regulations for Gopo Film Awards
BUCHAREST: A record 56 films have been submitted for the 5th edition of the Romanian Gopo prizes (www.premiilegopo.ro). Among them 16 are feature films, 10 documentaries and 30 short films…
Romania Lines up 2011Premieres
BUCHAREST: Twenty Romanian films are expected to hit local screens in 2011. Some of them were originally planned to open in 2010, but the premieres were postponed because of a…
New Country Manager at Chello Central Europe România
BUCHAREST: Anda Mânza replaced Dorian Ciubuc as country manager at Chello Central Europe România starting 1 February 2011.
Admissions Double as New Screens Open
BUCHAREST: The biggest box-office successes of 2010 in Romania drew almost double the numbers of 2009. Cinema City opened new multiplexes in 2010 in Baia Mare, Arad and a second…
Critics Name The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu best Romanian Film
BUCHAREST: Romanian journalists and film critics selected The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu/Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceauşescu as the best Romanian film of 2010 and its director, Andrei Ujică, as the best…
TLC Launches in Romania
BUCHAREST: The Discovery Channel (www.yourdiscovery.com/web/find-us-on-tv/romania/) launched the women entertainment channel TLC in Romania on 20 January 2011 on the basic analog and digital packages of UPC (www.upc.ro) and AKTA (www.digitalcable.ro),…
New General Manager at UPC
BUCHAREST: The Romanian communication company UPC (www.upc.ro) has a new General Manager, Severina Pascu, elected for four years. She is replacing the American Jack Mikaloff, who ran the company from…
PRODUCTION: Emmy Winner Nanau Prepares New Documentary
BUCHAREST: Alexander Nanau, recipient of the International Emmy 2010 for The World According to Ion B, is preparing a new full length documentary, 136, which will be produced by Strada…
Batman Franchise Scouts Romania
BUCHAREST: Bucharest City Hall has informed local media that The Dark Knight Rises, the upcoming film in the Batman series, is in discussions to film in Romania.
RADEF Renovates, Opens Old Cinemas
BUCHAREST: RADEF RomâniaFilm (www.romaniafilm.ro), the communist era manager of Romanian cinemas and current owner of some 30 screens in Romania, has opened its first 3D cine-café in Bucharest. The company…
PRODUCTION: Touch Me Not in development
BUCHAREST: Writer/ director Adina Pintile is developing her first feature film, Touch Me Not, a study of the human longing for contact, with three a woman and two men fighting…
Green Light for New Romanian Channels
BUCHAREST: Four new television channels have received licences from the National Audiovisual Council of Romania (www.cna.ro).
PRODUCTION: Seven Acts of Mercy Shooting in Italy
Seven Acts of Mercy/Sette opere di misericordia, an Italian/Romanian co-production between Alessandro Borrelli of La Sarraz Pictures (www.lasarraz.com) and Dan Burlac of Elefant Film, began shooting in Torino on 19…
MediaPro Signs WB Distribution Agreement
BUCHAREST: MediaPro Distribution (www.mediaprodistribution.com), the distribution company of MediaPro Entertainment (www.mediaproentertainment.com) will exclusively distribute Warner Bros. Pictures (www.warnerbros.com) productions in classic, digital and 3D format in the Romanian cinemas starting…
Romania Concludes Second Grant Session
BUCHAREST: The National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro) announced the second 2010 grant session on 21 December 2010, with a 31 January deadline. The rushed session was due to the approval…
PRODUCTION: 4 Blows in Development
BUCHAREST: Writer/director Peter Kerek is developing his first feature film, 4 Blows/Patru lovituri, a fictional self-portrait told through four life-changing events in one man's life.
