| If I Want to Whistle racks up more sales |
| 13 July 2010 | By Iulia Blaga |
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Berlinale Silver Bear winner If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle has been sold to the United Kingdom, France and the United States. Director Florin Şerban's first feature was released in Romania on March 26, 2010.
The film will be distributed in the United Kingdom by Artificial Eye (www.artificial-eye.com), in France by Why Not Productions (www.whynotproductions.fr), and in the United States by Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com), according to producer Daniel Mitulescu. Celluloid Dreams (www.celluloid-dreams.com) has already sold the film to Belgium, Luxemburg and Holland, where it will be distributed by Wild Bunch Benelux (www.wildbunch.nl), to Israel (distributor: United King Film Distribution), and to Spain (Vertigo Films). Şerban's debut won the Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix and the Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin 2010. The film is a Romanian-Swedish co-production between Strada Film, Film i Väst (www.filmivast.se) and The Chimney Pot (www.thechimneypot.com). It was funded by the Romanian National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro), the Swedish Film Institute (www.sfi.se) and Post Republic Berlin (www.post-republic.com), and has been pre-sold to Romanian Television (www.tvr.ro). The project won The Magic Box Service Award at CineLink, at the 2008 Sarajevo IFF (www.sff.ba), and the CineLink Work in Progress Award at Sarajevo IFF in August 2009. It also received the Hubert Bals Fund Award for Development at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Production information: Strada Film 41 Dr. Staicovici Street, Sector 5 055556, Bucharest, Romania Phone/Fax: +40-21-411.80.99
Film i Väst AB Box 134 461 23 Trollhättan Akerssjöv. 4 Phone: +46 (0) 520- 49 09 00 Fax: + 46 (0) 520- 49 09 01 info@ filmivast.se http://www.filmivast.se/sv/Film-i-Vast/
The Chimney Pot Sturegatan 58 114 36 Stockholm Phone: +46 8 587 50 500 Fax: +46 8 587 50 501 Mail: info@chimney.se
Celluloid Dreams 2 rue Turgot 75009 Paris France Phone: +33 1 49 70 03 70 Fax: +33 1 49 70 03 71
Credits Director: Florin Şerban Script: Cătălin Mitulescu Florin Şerban DOP: Marius Panduru Cast: George Piştereanu Ada Condeescu Clara Vodă Mihai Constantin Marian Bratu |
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