12-07-2010

If I Want to Whistle racks up more sales

By Iulia Blaga
    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

    www.stradafilm.ro

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    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

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    www.thechimneypot.com

    Celluloid Dreams

    2 rue Turgot

    75009 Paris

    France

    Phone: +33 1 49 70 03 70

    Fax: +33 1 49 70 03 71

    www.celluloid-dreams.com

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    Credits

    Director: Florin Şerban

    Script: Cătălin Mitulescu

    Florin Şerban

    DOP: Marius Panduru

    Cast: George Piştereanu

    Ada Condeescu

    Clara Vodă

    Mihai Constantin

    Marian Bratu