After the Commission for Culture and Media from the Senate rejected the project on 14 June 2016, a group of filmmakers including producers Ada Solomon, Oana Giurgiu, Anca Puiu and Codruța Crețulescu launched an appeal to filmmakers to sign an open letter to the members of the Judicial Commission of the Senate and the Parliament, where the draft will be debated and voted on 21 and 22 June 2016. More than 30 film professionals including directors, producers and film critics already signed.

The draft also aims to change the financing system by replacing refundable credits with subventions and binding producers to return a percentage of their revenues to the National Cinema Center (CNC) if the film is profitable. The subvention will be between 80 - 100 percent for first films. The law will also eliminate the obligation to submit secret film projects to the first funding session.

The Film Fund will start collecting money, including 1% from the monthly revenues of internet providers, and contributions from TV advertisement revenues, which up to now went to projects chosen by the advertising companies and were not collected entirely for the Film Fund. Due to errors in the previous law, no money went to the Film Fund in the previous years. Other aspects are aimed at encouraging domestic film distribution.

The cinema is a priority for the new minister of Culture Corina Șuteu, who was appointed at the beginning of May 2016, but discussions on the amendments to the Cinema Law began a few months ago under the former minister of Culture, Vlad Alexandrescu. He invited a group of filmmakers including Cristian Mungiu and Tudor Giurgiu, as well as CNC representatives to help draft the corrections to the Cinema Law.