17-04-2011

Outbound Sold in Four Territories

By Iulia Blaga

    BUCHAREST: Sales agent mk2 (www.mk2.com) has sold Bogdan George Apetri's Outbound/Periferic (www.periferic.ro) to Poland, Greece, Israel and Switzerland. The Romanian film will be distributed by Against Gravity (www.againstgravity.pl) in Poland, Artplex Attica (www.artplex.gr) in Greece, Orlando Films (www.orlandofilms.co.il) in Israel, and Secondo Film (www.secondofilm.ch) in Switzerland.

    Outbound takes place in the span of 24 hours and tells the story of a young woman released for one day from prison into contemporary Bucharest. The film had its world premiere at Locarno IFF in 2010, where leading actress Ana Ularu was awarded by Swiss film critics.

    The film subsequently traveled to numerous festivals, being awarded among other distinctions the Golden Alexander for Best Film, Best Actress and the prize of Greek film critics association at Thessaloniki IFF.

    Outbound was produced by Alexandru Teodorescu and the Romanian company Saga Film (www.sagafilm.ro) and coproduced by Josef Aichholzer and Aichholzer Filmproduktion Austria (www.aifilm.com).

    Apetri studied film direction and cinematography at Columbia University. Outbound is his first feature.

    Production information

    Saga Film

    8 Dimitrie Racoviţă Street

    Sector 2, Bucharest, 023993

    Romania

    Tel: +40.21.317.33.60

    Fax: +40.21.317.33.64

    www.sagafilm.ro

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    Aichholzer Filmproduktion

    Mariahilferstrasse 58

    1070 Wien Austria

    Tel: +43.1.523.40.81

    Fax: +43.1.526.34.58

    www.aifilm.com

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    Credits

    Director: Bogdan Apetri

    Script: Tudor Voican and Bogdan George Apetri on a story by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru

    DOP: Marius Panduru

    Editor: Eugen Kelemen

    Cast: Ana Ularu

    Andi Vasluianu

    Mimi Brănescu

    Timotei Duma

    Ioana Flora

    Cristian Oleser