Production: New documentary co-productions from Romania

Two new Romanian feature-length documentaries exploring the country's traditional past are attracting international co-production partners.

12-10-2009

Production: Poker begins filming

 

Romanian director Sergiu Nicolaescu has started shooting Poker , an adaptation of a successful play written by Adrian Lustig and staged at the Comedy Theater in Bucharest 5 years ago.

09-10-2009

Production: Alexandru Maftei in post-production with Hello, How Are You?

The first feature from Romanian director Alexandru Maftei, Hello, How Are You?, is a romantic comedy about a husband and wife who fall in love via the internet, hiding their true identities.

07-10-2009

Francesca opens in Romania

Director Bobby Păunescu and the production team are traveling to ten towns across Romania to promote his first feature film, Francesca.

04-10-2009

Production: Thomas Ciulei moves to feature with The Show Must Go On

Award-winning documentary director Thomas Ciulei is working on his feature debut, a comedy about an actor and a filmmaker, the last artists from an imaginary country ruled by an ominous dictator.

29-09-2009

The Whistleblower to shoot in Romania

The Whistleblower, a first feature by Larysa Kondracki, will be shot in Romania this year with MediaPro Pictures (www.mediapropictures.com) providing services.

15-09-2009

Production: Ujica wraps the final chapter of his trilogy of the communism

Andrei Ujica is editing The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, the third part of his trilogy about communism, after the highly acclaimed Videogramme einer Revolution and Out of the Present.

14-09-2009

Production: Shooting wraps for Polish-Israeli co-production

Shooting has been completed on My Australia, the first Polish film devoted to the topic of Polish Jews emigrating to Israel in the 1960's.

08-09-2009

Production: Floating Things in postproduction

Floating Things, from writer/director Mircea Daneliuc, is in the final stages of postproduction as it prepares for its local premiere on October 23.

06-09-2009

Production: Looking for a Mother to be shot this autumn

Looking for a Mother, a contemporary drama of a young boy who is institutionalized after his mother leaves for Italy, will be shot in the Republic of Moldavia as a Romanian-Moldavian co-production.

02-09-2009

Production: Brancusi biopic in preparation

The life of the famous Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi goes on the big screen in a feature film set to premiere in 2010.

01-09-2009

Production: Jancsó in post-production with So Much for Justice

Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó has finished a four-week shoot on the Hungary/Poland/Austria co-production Oda az igazság! (So Much for Justice!) and is now in post-production.

30-08-2009

Production: Metro Branding in post-production

Ana Vlad and Adrian Voicu are in postproduction with their first long film, Metro Branding, a documentary investigating five famous communist "monobrands."

30-08-2009

Production: Sneakers starts shooting in Sofia

Sneakers, the Bulgarian debut film by co-directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valery Yordanov, is filming on locations aroung Bulgaria through September 26.

30-08-2009

Production: Babtism goes into post-production

Director Marcin Wrona has finished shooting on Baptism, his thriller based on a true story from the Polish underworld.

27-08-2009

Production: Mundruczó films Frankenstein project

Kornél Mundruczó (Delta, Johanna, Pleasant Days) is in production with The Frankenstein Plan, developed out of his 2007 theatrical piece.

26-08-2009