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For the sixth consecutive year, the Pustnik Screen-writers’ Residency is launching a call for applications. This year the dates are from September 7th to 15th and the theme is “The seen and the unseen”. Pustnik is for film-makers developing their first or second feature and is the only residency of its kind in Romania. Of …
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As in many countries, Romanian film and television companies face considerable losses caused by the Coronavirus crisis. To remedy this, representatives of 230 film production and service companies have sent a letter to the national authorities, including the country’s President, Klaus Lohannis, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Culture, the Minister of Economy and the …
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Anca Damian, Romanian film-maker, is currently working on her fourth feature, The Island. Scripted with Augusto Zanovello, the film is co-produced by Aparte Film (Romania), Take Five (Belgium) and Komadoli (France). The director describes her work as a musical and a “back-to-front version of the Robinson Crusoe story”. Several characters are the same as in …
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The twenty-sixth Astra Film Festival was held in Sibiu, Transylvania, from October 14th to 20th. The award for Best Romanian Documentary went to Alex Brendea for Teach (80min). In his first film as a director, this young documentary maker implicitly criticises the Romanian education system: he follows a maths teacher, Dorin Ioniţӑ, who has rejected …
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The industry component of the Astra Film Festival, Doc Tank @AFF, will run on the festival sidelines from October 17th to 19th in Sibiu. Every year it brings together local and European documentary professionals to meet and develop projects together. Round tables and conferences about documentary production and distribution will be on offer. This year …
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The 41st Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival closed on February 9th with the award-giving ceremony in the town’s Maison de la Culture. For 9 days some 160,000 spectators, including 3,500 professionals, watched short films from around the world in a dozen locations in Clermont-Ferrand. The festival was organized around three competitions: international, national and the …
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The National Film Centre of Romania announced the list of the winners of its 2017 call for production projects. From the 200 projects submitted, 17 drama films, 15 documentaries, 10 first works and 7 animated films were selected, plus 5 drama films about the centenary of Romania’s unification. €10.7 million will be shared between these …
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