BUCHAREST: Anca Damian (Crulic – The Path to Beyond, Aparte Film) is in preparation with the feature film Moon Hotel Kabul, a Romanian/French coproduction set to be shot in Romania and Morocco in August-September 2016. The film received Eurimages support in the grants round announced on 28 June.
DUBROVNIK: The first season of the series Knightfall produced by the A&E Television Network (U.S.) and Stillking Films (Czech Republic) started shooting in Dubrovnik on 27 June 2016. The series, produced for the History Channel, is also shooting in the Czech Republic.
BUCHAREST: Radu Jude is in production with an untitled independent 90 minute documentary about the photo collection of Costică Acsinte (1897-1984). The film will use approximately 2,000 photos from the collection's total of 7,500 photos.
TBILISI: A group of eight location scouts and producers from Hollywood are currently visiting Georgia. They have been invited by the Georgian National Film Centre and Enterprise Georgia.
BUCHAREST: Menocchio, the new project of Alberto Fasulo, who won the 2013 Rome Film Festival with TIR, will be an Italian/Romanian coproduction and is set to be shot in summer/autumn 2017.
BUCHAREST: Discussions on the amendments to the Cinema Law proposed by the Ministry of Culture will have to wait until September 2016 as the judicial commission from the Chamber of Deputies decided that the Government cannot issue emergency ordinances during the summer holiday for judicial and cultural matters and also for the state protocol administration.
BUCHAREST: Claudiu Mitcu is preparing to shoot Ultimul drum / The Last Voyage, a tragi-comic documentary road movie about an undertaker transporting Romanians who have died while working in Europe.
BUCHAREST: Tudor Baciu, a 28 year-old medical school graduate from Cluj-Napoca, is one of several entrepreneurial film promoters who are reviving the tradition of the travelling film caravan.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Ministry of Culture, together with a group of filmmakers, has written a draft aimed at adapting the Cinema Law to European legislation. The new law would introduce minority coproductions and micro-budget productions on the list of projects eligible for funding, and would start collecting money for the Film Fund.
BUCHAREST: The Romanian Ministry of Culture has launched a large evaluation process for the National Film Archives and the Romanian Cinematheque. Radu Jude, Corneliu Porumboiu and Radu Muntean are among the 55 professionals who will assess a restructuring plan by September 2016.
