28-02-2010

Whistle begins theatrical roll-out

By Iulia Blaga

    Berlinale Silver Bear winner If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle begins it first theatrical release in Romania on March 26, with sales to foreign territories lining up.

    Sales agent Celluloid Dreams (www.celluloid-dreams.com) has sold the film to Belgium, Luxemburg and Holland, where it will be distributed by Wild Bunch Benelux (www.wildbunch.nl), to Israel (distributor United King Film Distribution), and to Spain (distributor Vertigo Films).

    The debut film from Florin Şerban also won the Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin. The director and producers Daniel and Cătălin Mitulescu from Strada Film (www.stradafilm.ro) intended a theatrical premiere in Romanian to stress the importance of local audiences. The local distributor is Metropolis Film.

    The producer Daniel Mitulescu told FNE that interest from other territories has led to negotiations with Great Britain, Taiwan, Switzerland, Russia, Independent States Community (ISC), Latin America, Italy, Greece, Germany, France, Eastern Europe and others.

    The Romanian-Swedish co-production between Strada Film, Film i Väst (www.filmivast.se) and The Chimney Pot (www.thechimneypot.com) was supported by the Romanian National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro), the Swedish Film Institute (www.sfi.se) and Post Republic Berlin (www.post-republic.com), and has been pre-sold to the Romanian Television (www.tvr.ro). The project won The Magic Box Service Award at CineLink, during the 2008 Sarajevo IFF (www.sff.ba), and the CineLink Work in Progress Award at Sarajevo IFF in August 2009. The project also received the Hubert Bals Fund Award for Development at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

    Production information:

    Strada Film

    41 Dr. Staicovici Street, Sector 5

    055556, Bucharest, Romania

    Phone/Fax: +40-21-411.80.99

    www.stradafilm.ro

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    Film i Väst AB

    Box 134

    461 23 Trollhättan

    Akerssjöv. 4

    Phone: +46 (0) 520- 49 09 00

    Fax: + 46 (0) 520- 49 09 01

    info@ filmivast.se

    http://www.filmivast.se/sv/Film-i-Vast/

    The Chimney Pot

    Sturegatan 58
    114 36 Stockholm

    Phone: +46 8 587 50 500
    Fax: +46 8 587 50 501
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    www.thechimneypot.com

    Celluloid Dreams

    2 rue Turgot

    75009 Paris

    France

    Phone: +33 1 49 70 03 70

    Fax: +33 1 49 70 03 71

    www.celluloid-dreams.com

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    Credits

    Director: Florin Şerban

    Script: Cătălin Mitulescu

    Florin Şerban

    DOP: Marius Panduru

    Cast: George Piştereanu

    Ada Condeescu

    Clara Vodă

    Mihai Constantin

    Marian Bratu