GRANTS: Călin Peter Netzer Gets Biggest Grant from CNC
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Film Center allotted 3,401,250 EUR/15 m RON for film production and development at its first session of 2014.
Vlad The Impaler: Blood Empire To Be Shot in Romania
BUCHAREST: After shooting The Mercenary: Absolution with Steven Seagal in March and April 2014, director Keoni Waxman is returning to Romania where he will start shooting entirely the four hour…
New Romanian Distribution Company Bows in November
BUCHAREST: Freealize will distribute its first film on 7 November and will launch the Romanian portmanteau film Short/4: Tales of Spades end of November.
Romanian Ad Market to Grow by 2.8%
BUCHAREST: After five years of decline, the Romanian ad market is poised to grow by 2.8% through the end of 2014.
America, Here We Come! Sets Opening Record for 2014
BUCHAREST: Răzvan Săvescu’s debut feature America, Here We Come!/America,venim! racked up 14,257 admissions in the first weekend, more than #Selfie, the biggest hit of 2014 so far, but it didn’t…
Just the Two of Us Wins Aristoteles Worskhop
VAMA: Just the Two of Us, directed by Nina Blazin (Slovenia), shot by Erno-Aron Palfi-Horvath (Hungary, Romania) and edited by Raluca Petre (Romania) is the winner of the 9th edition…
FESTIVALS: Eastern Realities at the Astra Film Festival in Sibiu
SIBIU: The Astra Film Festival, will take place from 6 - 12 October this year in Sibiu, Romania. A highlight of the festival is the Central and Eastern Europe Documentary…
Eight New Romanian Films Set for Theatrical Release this Autumn
BUCHAREST: Romanian films are starting to make major inroads into the domestic theatrical market with eight new features set for release in a crowded autumn schedule. Most of the productions…
PRODUCTION: Romanian-Swiss Director Ruxandra Zenide Preps Romanian Swiss Coproduction The Miracle of Tekir
BUCHAREST: Romanian Director/screenwriter Ruxandra Zenide will start shooting her second feature, The Miracle of Tekir/Miracolul din Tekir on 20 October, a Swiss/Romanian coproduction planned for release in spring 2015.
FESTIVALS: The Burning Bush Wins MECEFF 2014
MEDIAŞ: Agnieszka Holland's The Burning Bush received the Trophy of Mediaş Central European Film Festival (MECEFF) on 6 September 2014. Austria's Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing by Hüseyin Tabak won…
New Distribution Company Takes on Warner Bros in Romania
BUCHAREST: The team and the general manager of MediaPro Distribution who left the company this summer launched a new company, Freeman Entertainment on 1 September 2014.
FESTIVALS: Child's Pose in Competition at MECEFF
MEDIAŞ: The 4th edition of Mediaş Central European Film Festival (2-6 September 2014), the only festival in Romania focusing on the Central European cinema, will screen more than 40 films…
Jackie Chan Named Romanian-Chinese Cultural Ambassador
BUCHAREST: Chinese actor Jackie Chan will open the Chinese Film Days in Bucharest on 11 September and will be named honorary cultural Ambassador of Romanian-Chinese relations.
PRODUCTION: Anca Miruna Lăzărescu Preps Her Debut Feature
BUCHAREST: Romania's Strada Film and Germany's filmallee team up again for That Trip We Took with Dad/La drum cu tata, the debut feature by Anca Miruna Lăzărescu whose short film,…
Moldova to Open Film Center
BUCHAREST: The Republic of Moldova will have its own Film Center subordinated to the Ministry of Culture.
PRODUCTION: Cătălin Mitulescu Develops Heidi
BUCHAREST: Writer/director/producer Cătălin Mitulescu, will question the situation of young women using men as vehicles for receiving nice things in life in Heidi, a feature he plans to shoot in…
PRODUCTION: Cristina Iacob in Postproduction with A Gift for You
BUCHAREST: The young director Cristina Iacob, who directed the most successful Romanian film in 2014, the youth comedy #Selfie, is in postproduction with A Gift for You/Un dar pentru tine,…
First CEE Oscar Contenders Announced
Poland, Hungary and Romania are among the first countries to select the films that will represent them in the Oscar foreign film category.
Bollywood productions boost Romanian film industry
BUCHAREST: Bollywood has discovered Romania. In what looks like a growing trend across central and eastern Europe Bollywood producers shooting in Romania are boosting the local location services industry. Bollywood…
American indie Nameless shooting in Romania
BUCHAREST: The independent production Nameless directed by Thurman Bryan and Luis Esteban and starring John Rhys-Davies, started shooting in Bucharest on 11 August with the local company Castel Film providing…
