BUCHAREST: Total admissions for European films doubled in Romania in 2014, according to the National Film Center. In total, 262 out of 292 screens are now digitalised compared to 226 screens in 2014. The number of screens also increased by 28 in 2014.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian National Film Centre allotted 2,430,892 EUR / 11,880,000 RON at the second grants contest of 2014 with the results announced on 9 March 2015. New projects of Cristian Mungiu, Radu Mihăileanu and Florin Şerban are among the five projects receiving production funding.
BUCHAREST: The New Romanian Cinema Association together with the local industry are launching Location Guide Romania, a project aiming to promote the country’s various shooting locations and production facilities.
BUCHAREST: George Motoi, an actor who embodied the prototype of an intellectual in Romanian movies before 1990, passed away on 4 March 2015 at the age of 79.
This month we speak with Ina Darova, manager of the Euro Cinema and the Cultural Centre G8. Euro Cinema was founded in 2001 as a single screen Art house cinema, and has now two halls and a cinema café. It has a strong identity in the capital’s cultural landscape and its programme focuses on Bulgarian and European film art. Opened in October 2014, the Cultural Centre G8 is a new challenge to the audience. As a private Art house cinema but also hosting various cultural events, it is equipped with three screening rooms, a hall, a café and a small cinema museum.
This month we speak with Ina Darova, manager of the Euro Cinema and the Cultural Centre G8. Euro Cinema was founded in 2001 as a single screen Art house cinema, and has now two halls and a cinema café. It has a strong identity in the capital’s cultural landscape and its programme focuses on Bulgarian and European film art. Opened in October 2014, the Cultural Centre G8 is a new challenge to the audience. As a private Art house cinema but also hosting various cultural events, it is equipped with three screening rooms, a hall, a café and a small cinema museum.
NICOSIA: Cypriot director Adonis Florides is in production on his new film Rosemarie which is currently shooting in Cyprus. The film is supposed to be finished late 2015.
BUCHAREST: Only three Romanian films are nominated in Best Film category at the 9th edition of the Gopo Awards which will be announced on 30 March 2015. Andrei Gruzsniczki's Q.E.D. has 17 nods followed by Nae Caranfil's Closer to the Moon with 12 nominations.
BUCHAREST: Tudor Giurgiu’s political drama Why Me? set an opening and box office record for a domestic film in the last two years. Released on 27 February 2015, it had 14,983 admissions in its first weekend, cashing in 50,538 EUR / 222,369 RON.
TBILISI: Georgian Minister of Culture and Monument Protection Mikheil Giorgadze and the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport Tibor Navracsics have signed an Agreement on Georgian participation in the Creative Europe Programme in Brussels.
