Romanian National Film Center Looks for New Director
BUCHAREST: The Romanian National Film Center (CNC) will organize a contest for a new general director on 3 September 2015.
MECEFF Announces Line Up
MEDIAŞ: The best films of 2014 from Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary will compete at the 5th Mediaş Central European Film Festival (MECEFF) from 1 to…
Nat Geo People to Hit Eastern Europe
BUCHAREST: Nat Geo People will be launched in Romania by Telekom on 1 September 2015. Romania is the first Eastern European country where it will be launched after Denmark, Germany,…
FESTIVALS: The 5th MECEFF Will Focus on WWI
BUCHAREST: The 5th Mediaş Central European Film Festival 7+1 will focus on the WWI and its impact on the XX and XXI centuries. MECEFF will take place in Mediaş from…
FNE Doc Bloc: KineDok Lauched in Romania
KineDok plans 200 screenings at alternative venues in Romania in 2015.
PRODUCTION: Igor Cobileanski Preps First Romanian-Lithuanian Coproduction
BUCHAREST: Igor Cobileanski (The Unsaved) will start shooting a new feature, Eastern Business, mid-July 2015. This dark comedy is the first Romanian/Lithuanian coproduction to date.
UNIC Annual Report Shows Box Office Gains in CEE Countries
BRUSSELS: The Annual Report 2014-2015 of the International Union of Cinemas,UNIC shows that the overall box office as well as the market share of national films in the CEE countries…
Two Lottery Tickets Starts Crowdfunding Campaign
BUCHAREST: Paul Negoescu launched a crowdfunding compaign on Indiegogo for his independent feature Two Lottery Tickets/Doua lozuri. His aim is to collect 7,650 USD in 19 days.
FEEDBack (Film Eastern Europe Dialogue) Brings Together Troika of Eastern European Film Fund Chiefs
CLUJ: The first session of think-tank platform FEEDBack (Film Eastern Europe Dialogue) brought together a troika of three Eastern European film fund heads to participate in a working group with…
Romanian Cinema in Cannes 2015
Romanian Stand: Village Pantiero Nr 222
FESTIVALS: TIFF Announces Transilvania Pitch Stop 2015
CLUJ-NAPOCA: The 2nd edition of the Transilvania Pitch Stop (TPS) programme will take place within the Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) from 31 May to 6 June 2015.
FESTIVALS: Jafar Panahi's Taxi Will Open Bucharest IFF Today
BUCHAREST: The 11th edition of Bucharest International Film Festival opens today with Jafar Panahi's Taxi and will run until 26 April 2015 with six debut features and second films competing…
FESTIVALS: Bucharest International Film Festival Announces Lineup
BUCHAREST: Six debut features and second films will compete for the trophy of the 11th edition of Bucharest International Film Festival from 20 to 26 April 2015.
Aferim! With Best Domestic Opening in 13 Years
BUCHAREST: Radu Jude's third feature, Aferim! opened in Romania on 13 March selling 20,039 tickets in the first weekend and beating the record set in 2013 by Calin Peter Netzer's…
Why Me? to Travel Troughout Romania
BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu’s political drama Why Me?/De ce eu? will be released in more than 60 Romanian cinemas on 27 February and in Bulgaria at the end of March 2015…
HBO Romania Opens Script Contest
BUCHAREST: HBO Romania launched a script contest for original series. The winner will be announced on 24 August 2015 and will receive 2,500 USD.
FNE at Berlinale 2015: Romanian Films in Berlin
Romanian Film Center: Stand No. G1 | Location: Martin-Gropius-Bau. Come and see us at EFM 2015.
Romanian VoD Service Seenow Saw Good Results in 2014
BUCHAREST: Seenow, the first Romanian service of live TV and VoD available on all screens, had 19,564,591 viewers in 2014.
FNE Country Profile: Romania
After a gap in funding, production resumed in 2014, but the crisis was visible in the slow pace of foreign film productions shooting in Romania. New multiplexes opened and new…
FNE at Connecting Cottbus 2014: Anca Damian Preps In Perfect Health
COTTBUS: Romanian writer/director/producer Anca Damian is moving into preproduction with a dramatic feature film inspired by the sudden and unexpected death of her father, In Perfect Health.
