25-06-2013

PRODUCTION: Vasile in Development

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    Producer Iuliana Tarnoveţchi Producer Iuliana Tarnoveţchi

    BUCHAREST: Alien Film Productions and Multi Media Est are developing Bogdan Bărbulescu's first feature, a tragicomedy set to be released in 2016.

    Vasile tells the story of two brothers, Vasile and Ilie, raised in an orphanage and expelled from it once they turn 18. Ilie, the older one, decides that they should start robbing for a living, and Vasile's disapproval will melt once their first hit is a success. The film will following these complementary souls as they try to survive in a merciless world. Bărbulescu is writing the script.

    The budget is 800,000 EUR, Iuliana Tarnoveţchi from Alien Film Productions told FNE. The film is a Romanian coproduction between Alien Film Productions  and Multi Media Est. The project received a development grant of 7,586 EUR/33,532 RON from the National Centre for Cinema in April 2013. The shooting dates will depend on the next grant round organised by the National Centre for Cinema, but is likely to take place in autumn 2014 or 2015.

    Bărbulescu directed the crime series Băieţi buni/Good Guys produced by MediaPro Pictures in 2005.

    Production Information

    Multi Media Est
    5 Intrarea Temisana
    Bucharest 010795, Romania
    Phone: +40 21 312 4826
    Fax: +40 21 312 4849
    www.mme.ro 
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    Alien Film Productions
    Piaţa Sfântul Ştefan 6
    Bucharest 023998, Romania
    Mobile: +40 744 659 714
    www.alienfilm.ro 
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    Credits

    Director: Bogdan Bărbulescu
    Script: Bogdan Bărbulescu