First Romanian TV Format sold in Asia

BUCHAREST: Miss Country Girl/Miss fata de la ţară, created and produced by Media Factory for the Romanian channel Prima TV, will be produced in Thailand in spring 2013. The 13…
18-02-2013

FNE at Berlinale 2013: Competition: Child’s Pose

BERLIN: Romanian director Calin Peter Netzer never puts a foot wrong in this story of a mother so obsessed by unconditional love for her son that she is willing to…
12-02-2013 m

FNE at Berlinale 2013: Romania at Berlinale 63

Information Courtesy of Romanian Film Promotion BERLIN: Between 7 and 15 of February, within Berlinale Film Market, Romanian Film Promotion (APFR) organizes the Romanian pavilion. 2013 marks the 63rd edition…
10-02-2013

Romania Launching Balkan Channel

BUCHAREST: The National Audiovisual Council of Romania approved licence for two new channels, the news channel Realitatea Plus and Black Sea TV.
31-01-2013

A Month in Thailand Begins Sales

BUCHAREST: Paul Negoescu's first feature A Month in Thailand has been sold by MPM Film to France, where it will be distributed by Epicentre Films in the second half of…
30-01-2013

Beyond the Hills Wins Top Romanian Prizes

BUCHAREST: Romanian film critics and journalists named Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills/După dealuri (www.mobrafilms.ro) as the best Romanian film, best European film and best film in the Romanian cinemas in…
28-01-2013

Beta Cinema Picks up Child’s Pose

Beta Cinema announced it has acquired the Romanian film Child’s Pose directed by Călin Peter Netzer which will screen in the main competition of the Berlinale.
24-01-2013

OTV Licence Withdrawn

BUCHAREST: The National Audiovisual Centre of Romania has withdrew the licence of channel OTV on 22 January 2013 due to the unpaid penalties dating back to 2009.
23-01-2013

Chuck Norris vs Communism Begins First Crowd Funding Campaign for Romanian Film

LONDON: Ilinca Călugăreanu’s British-Romanian-German coproduction Chuck Norris vs Communism is launching the first crowd funding initiative for a Romanian film on 21 January 2013 hoping to gather 18,800 EUR in…
21-01-2013

PRODUCTION: HiFilm Productions Develops One Step Behind the Seraphim

BUCHAREST: Ada Solomon of HiFilm Productions is developing a Romanian-Hungarian coproduction, One Step Behind the Seraphim the first feature film of Daniel Gabriel Sandu. The project has been selected for…
18-01-2013

Romanian Box Office Grows in 2012

BUCHAREST: Romanian films saw better domestic results in 2012, with four films topping 20,000 admissions, out of 20 Romanian films which premiered in 2012.
13-01-2013

Obituary: Sergiu Nicolaescu

BUCHAREST: Romania’s most popular director Sergiu Nicolaescu died on 3 January 2013 at age 82.
09-01-2013

PRODUCTION: Radu Jude Developing Aferim

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Radu Jude (The Happiest Girl in the World, Everybody in Our Family) is planning a spring 2014 shoot of his third film Aferim!, a Romanian-French-Italian coproduction set in…
08-01-2013

PRODUCTION: Porumboiu in postproduction with A Nine-Minute Interval

BUCHAREST: Director/screenwriter Corneliu Porumboiu, recipient of Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize in Cannes for Police, Adjective (2009), is in postproduction with his third feature.
12-12-2012

Peter Greenaway tracks Brancusi in Romania

BUCHAREST: Following the shooting of Goltzius and the Pelican Company in Croatia, Peter Greenaway is eyeing the possibility of shifiting to Romania for a feature inspired by the life of…
07-12-2012

Proposed changes for TV ad buying in Romania provoke controversy

BUCHAREST: According to critics, new changes to regulations of TV ad buying in Romania would also impact upon other areas of TV and cable market, including limiting editorial control for…
06-12-2012

Cinema City to Open Multiplex in Romania

BUCHAREST: The Cinema City group (www.cinemacity.ro) has announced its first multiplex in the city of Ploiesti, which raises to 14 the number opened by the exhibitor nationwide to date.
04-12-2012

PRODUCTION: Fright Night 2 Shooting Entirely in Romania

BUCHAREST: Shooting for Eduardo Rodriguez's horror comedy Fright Night 2 started 25 November in Romania. 20th Century Fox (www.foxmovies.com) is producing with the Romania's Castel Film Studios (www.castelfilm.ro) providing services.
30-11-2012

FNE at Baltic Event: Eastern Business in Development

BUCHAREST: Moldavian writer/director Igor Cobileanski is developing a road movie comedy involving two friends from the republic of Moldavia who get into laughable situations as they try to get money…
29-11-2012

Discovery Channel Removal Prompts Change in Audiovisual Law

BUCHAREST: The move by TV and internet market leader RCS & RDS (www.rcs-rds.ro) to remove the Discovery Channel (www.dsc.discovery.com) from its offerings on 23 November 2012, without informing its audience,…
28-11-2012