PRODUCTION: The Phantom Father in post-production

20-07-2010

PRODUCTION: The Phantom Father in post-production

By Iulia Blaga

Lucian Georgescu will finish the post-production of his first feature, The Phantom Father, in September. The editing is completed, and the German composer Johannes Malfatti has worked on the music in Berlin.

The € 1.2 million film is produced by Lucian Georgescu and Generic Audiovizual SRL (GAV) - Romania (www.gav.ro). The project received a grant from the Romanian Film Centre (www.cncinema.abt.ro), and a €20,000 grant from the MEDIA Programme. The film is co-financed by the Romanian companies Mediacom, Starcom Media, Initiative Media and Media Direction.

The film is based on a story of the cult American screenwriter Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts). He plays a small part in The Phantom Father. The main character - an American professor starting a trip to Vienna, Transylvania and Bucovina in order to find his roots - is played by the Romanian actor Marcel Iureş (Mission: Impossible, Amen, The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2).

The story is partly biographical since Gifford's grandfather left Bucovina for Vienna and finally settled in the United States. The main shooting ended in December 2008, but addional shooting took place in April 2009 and for 8 days in March-April 2010, involving Romanian actors Victor Rebengiuc and Mariana Mihuţ.

Joachim Von Vietinghoff is Senior Consultant Producer. The DOP is Liviu Marghidan (California Dreamin'). The film is in English, but the cast (except Gifford) is entirely Romanian (Mihaela Sârbu, Mihai Constantin, Valer Dellakeza, Nicodim Ungureanu, Mirela Oprişor).

The Phantom Father (www.thephantomfather.com) is the first part of "a trilogy of bitter comedies and fantasy tales of foreigners visiting a mysterious land with which they share love and hate, stories, memories or ghosts," the producers said.

Company information

GAV (Generic Audiovizual SRL)

Bucharest 48 Plantelor Street 023975, Sector 2, Romania

Tel: 0040-21-31.71.356

Fax: 0040-21-31.71.286

Mobile: 0040-72.81.17.755

www.gav.ro

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MediaCom Romania

Bucharest, 39 Frumoasă Street, Sector 1, Romania

Tel: 0040- 21 - 314.50.10

Fax: 0040- 21 - 314.50.15