BUCHAREST: Radu Jude’s Aferim!, Tudor Giurgiu’s Why Me? and Dan Chișu’s Bucharest NonStop are nominated for Best Film and the UCIN Trophy at the UCIN Awards Gala organised by the Romanian Filmmakers Union.

BUCHAREST: Paris-based Premium Films has acquired the latest feature film by Romanian writer/director Nae Caranfil 6.9 on the Richter Scale / 6,9 pe scara Richter. The film will screen in Marché du Film at Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May 2016) and will open the 15th Transilvania IFF on 27 May 2016.

BUCHAREST: Corina Șuteu has been named the new Romanian Minister of Culture, replacing Vlad Alexandrescu. Alexandrescu’s departure was forced over indecision in handling the crisis at the Bucharest National Opera.

TBILISI: Nino Devdariani, European Film Promotion’s Producer on the Move from Georgia, was encouraged by her husband, filmmaker George Ovashvili, to get involved in the film business. The former ballerina started as his assistant and the couple co-founded the production company Alamdary Film in 2010. She is currently producing Ovashvili’s feature films but would like to work with other directors as well.

TBILISI: Acclaimed director, producer and screenwriter George Ovashvili has just finished the shooting of his feature film Khibula, a Georgian/German/French coproduction about the first president of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, in the final chapter of his life.

BUCHAREST: Adrian Sitaru’s incest drama llegitimate/ Ilegitim will be released by Damned Distribution in France on 8 June 2016.

BUCHAREST: The 5th edition of Transilvania Talent Lab (TTL), a professional workshop organised in the framework of the Transilvania IFF from 31 May to 4 June 2016, will focus this year on the management of cinema theaters.

BUCHAREST: Ultraviolet Media, the first world sales and film distribution company in Romania, founded in December 2015, is heading to Cannes with four titles to be screened at the festival and the market and 20 shorts, 12 documentaries and six feature fiction films in the company’s portfolio.

BUCHAREST: Romanian Minister of Culture Vlad Alexandrescu, who in just five months managed to start important changes in Romanian culture, including the film industry, has resigned at the request of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș.

TBILISI: Zurab Maghalashvili was named the new head of the Georgian National Film Centre. He replaces Nana Janelidze, whose mandate ended on 25 March 2016.