Slow moves to digital television in Romania

Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Society (http://www.mcsi.ro/) is expected to present a new draft for the strategy to transfer to digital television.
09-08-2009

Ad market revenues drop in 2009

The TV advertising market has dropped by over 30% in Romania in the first half of 2009.
05-08-2009

Production: Dan Chişu starts shooting The Bear

Writer/director Dan Chişu's film The Bear, winner of the Connecting Cottbus "Best Pitch Award," began filming August 3.
04-08-2009

Romanian box office on the rise

Due to multiplexes and 3D, local box-office projects growth of as much as 25% in 2009 compared to last year.
03-08-2009

Production: Constantin Popescu preps Principles of Life

Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) has finished post-production of Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man and started pre-production of Principles of Life.
30-07-2009

Production: Nicolae Mărgineanu finishes doc about Securitate surveillance

Nicolae Mărgineanu is in post-production with his documentary film Surveilled by the Securitate between 1970-1980.
30-07-2009

Production: Marian Crişan preps his first feature

Marian Crişan (Palme d'Or for the short Megatron in 2008) will shoot his first feature this autumn.
27-07-2009

TV channels welcome state money to promote tourism

The Romanian Ministry of Tourism is spending €924,000 to promote local tourism on three Romanian television stations.
26-07-2009

Production: Florin Iepan explores Odessa massacre

Documentary filmmaker Florin Iepan (The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan; Children of the Decree; Bela Lugosi - The Fallen Vampire) is tapping a difficult subject, the massacre committed by…
23-07-2009

Tales from the Golden Age sold to 25 territories

The portmanteau film about life in communist era written by Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and directed by Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hoefer, Răzvan Mărculescu, Constantin Popescu…
22-07-2009

Production: Radu Muntean preps Tuesday after Christmas

The Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean continues his "étude des caractères" with Tuesday after Christmas, a look at the pending break-up of a ten-year marriage.
20-07-2009

Kanal D goes international

S.C. Dogan Media International S.A. will extend the broadcasting of Kanal D TV channel abroad, having received approval from Romanian National Audiovisual Council (CNA) (www.cna.ro) in early July.
16-07-2009

Digi Sport TV receives license

Digi Sport TV channel has received a license to launch a sports channel from the Romanian National Audiovisual Council (CNA), two months after the launch of another Romanian sports channel,…
15-07-2009

New operational manager for MediaPro

Liviu Gheorghe is replacing Florin Alexandrescu as operational manager at MediaPro Romania.
13-07-2009

Chello Zone takes over Romantica TV

Chello Zone has fought off a competitor for control of the Romanian station Romantic TV.
09-07-2009

Cinema Public Fund faces cut

The Romanian National Lottery and casinos wil be exempt from contributing to the Cinema Public Fund under a new ruling.
08-07-2009

Production: Miss Christina in preproduction

Director Adrian Istria d'Elner is preparing a film adaptation of Mircea Eliade's novella, Miss Christina, a romantic drama set in the 30s.
07-07-2009

Production: Tanti in postproduction

Romanian filmmaker Şerban Marinescu is completing Tanti, a contemporary drama from a script written by Mircea Daneliuc.
02-07-2009

Production: Bogdan Apetri shooting feature debut

Outskirts (Periferic) the feature debut from director Bogdan Apetri, written by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru (Tales from the Golden Age) is in shooting through August 3.
01-07-2009

Romanian TV revenues continue to fall

General Romanian TV channel revenues dropped 40%, while thematic TV channels revenues dropped by 30% between January and May 2009.
23-06-2009