21-01-2013

Chuck Norris vs Communism Begins First Crowd Funding Campaign for Romanian Film

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    LONDON: Ilinca Călugăreanu’s British-Romanian-German coproduction Chuck Norris vs Communism is launching the first crowd funding initiative for a Romanian film on 21 January 2013 hoping to gather 18,800 EUR in order to wrap filming and begin postproduction.

    Directed by London based Romanian filmmakerIlinca Călugăreanu Chuck Norris vs Communism (www.chucknorrisvscommunism.co.uk) is a 70 minute documentary focusing on the popular culture of the video cassettes in Romania in the last 10 years of the communism. One of the people interviewed is Irina Nistor, who translated and dubbed some 5,000 films distributed on the black market.

    The film is produced by Mara Adina and Dara Carroll together with the British Vernon Films Ltd (www.vernonfilms.co.uk), in coproduction with Rachel Wexler and the British Bungalow Film Productions (www.bungalow-town.com), Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan of Romania’s 4Proof Films (www.4prooffilm.ro) and Stefan Kloss through Kloss & Co (www.kloosundco.de).

    The budget is 422,124 EUR, Mara Adina told FNE. The crowd funding, which will run for six weeks, includes pre-buy downloads and other items. 

    Jose Ruiz is the DOP and Nandita Jain the animator of the film. Renowned violonist Alexander Balanescu will compose the score. The film is set to be finished in autumn 2013.

     

     Production Information

    Vernon Films Ltd

    Phone:+44 (0)208 469 4105

    www.vernonfilms.co.uk

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    Bungalow Film Productions

    Southmore Cottage

    Long Green, Wortham 

    Suffolk 

    IP22 1PU

    Phone: +44 (0) 1379 898 797

    www.bungalow-town.com

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    4Proof Films

    7B Inisor Street, Sect.2

    Bucharest, Romania

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    Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, phone: +40.749.100.958

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    www.4prooffilm.ro

     

    Kloos & Co. Medien GmbH

    Schlesische Strasse 29/30
    10997 Berlin

    Phone: +49 (030) 47 37 29 8 - 0
    Fax: +49 (030) 47 37 29 8 - 20

    www.kloosundco.de
    info@kloosundco.de

     

    Credits

    Director: Ilinca Călugăreanu

    DOP: Jose Ruiz

    Music: Alexander Balanescu

    Animation: Nandita Jain