News about audiovisual in Romania
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In early December the Romanian government approved an amendment to a new law which will change the way the country’s film industry operates. Every section of the law proposed by Corina Suteu, Romania’s Minister of Culture, has been ratified except the one on allocating new resources for the Film Finance Fund. One of the main …
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On April 23rd the European Broadcasting Union decided to exclude Romania from the Eurovision Song Contest. TVR will not broadcast either that event or the Euro Cup soccer matches from June 10th to July 10th, in which the Romanian team will be playing. The EBU and the Romanian government failed to reach a “satisfactory agreement” …
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TVR, the Romanian public television, announced in a statement that its participation in Eurovision 2016, from May 10th to 14th in Stockholm, may be rejected. It might also be denied the broadcast rights to the contest. TVR owes the European Broadcasting Union, Eurovision’s organizer, €10 million, primarily incurred between 2011 and 2012. If the debt …
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On March 28th Greek and Romanian cinema professionals honoured their colleagues by giving awards respectively to “Wednesday 04:45” and “Aferim!”. In Athens, the Hellenic Film Academy voted overwhelmingly for Alexis Alexiou’s thriller “Wednesday 04:45”. This co-production, made with German and Israeli finance, won no fewer than 9 Iris Awards (13 nominations), including Best Film, Best …
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In early March Ingrid Deltenre, Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), sent a letter to the Romanian Prime Minister, Dacian Cioloş, asking for a “rapid response” from his government to save the country’s public broadcaster, TVR. She highlights the “significant debt” faced by the organisation, which she believes is threatened by “financial collapse”, …
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Appointed last November, the new Romanian Minister of Culture, Vlad Alexandrescu, announced a series of measures for his country’s film industry in January.
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Several Romanian cinemas are threatened with closure after a new earthquake construction law was passed by Klaus Iohannis’ government on November 17th. Under this law, public meetings are forbidden in buildings which were not built to withstand earthquakes. Several cultural establishments are concerned, including cinemas in the heart of Bucharest – for example Cinema Pro, …
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