The film will be distributed in the United Kingdom by Artificial Eye (www.artificial-eye.com), in France by Why Not Productions (www.whynotproductions.fr), and in the United States by Film Movement (www.filmmovement.com), according to producer Daniel Mitulescu.
Celluloid Dreams (www.celluloid-dreams.com) has already 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 (Vertigo Films).
Şerban's debut won the Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prix and the Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin 2010. The film is a Romanian-Swedish co-production between Strada Film, Film i Väst (www.filmivast.se) and The Chimney Pot (www.thechimneypot.com). It was funded 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 Romanian Television (www.tvr.ro).
The project won The Magic Box Service Award at CineLink, at the 2008 Sarajevo IFF (www.sff.ba), and the CineLink Work in Progress Award at Sarajevo IFF in August 2009. It 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
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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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Celluloid Dreams
2 rue Turgot
75009 Paris
France
Phone: +33 1 49 70 03 70
Fax: +33 1 49 70 03 71
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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
