PRODUCTION: From Love With Best Intentions begins shooting

23-08-2010

PRODUCTION: From Love With Best Intentions begins shooting

By Iulia Blaga

Adrian Sitaru (Angling/Pescuit sportiv) starts shooting his second feature, From Love With Best Intentions/ Din dragoste, cu cele mai bune intenţii on September 9. The film is a story about growing up in contemporary Romania, and follows a successful young man confronted with the sudden illness of his mother and the impossibility of controlling everything in his life.

The main character will be played by Bogdan Dumitrache, previously seen in Cătălin Mitulescu's Palme d'Or winning short Traffic, and in Constantin Popescu's Portrait of a Fighter as a Young Man. The mother is played by Nataşa Raab, and the father by Marian Râlea.

Sitaru wrote the script as a Cinéfondation resident at the Cannes Film Festival (www.festival-cannes.com), in 2008, after receiving a development grant from the National Centre for Cinema (www.cncinema.abt.ro). The treatment and the concept also participated at CineMart, at the Rotterdam Film Festival (www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com). The script won a production grant of €135,000 (545,000 RON) from the Romanian National Centre for Cinema in August 2008.

Ada Solomon and HiFilm (www.hifilm.ro) are producing. Cor Leonis Films (www.corleonisfilms.hu) from Hungary is co-producing, and Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan and 4Proof Film (www.4prooffilm.ro) are co-producing from Romania. The film also received 110,000 euro from Eurimages (http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/eurimages).

The budget is €750,000.

Sitaru continues his collaboration with the DOP Adrian Silişteanu (Angling). Stylistically, the film will use the same point of view as Angling, but it will be shot mainly in interiors in Bucharest and Miercurea Ciuc through October 2010. The local premiere is tentatively planned for Autumn 2011.

Production information

HiFilm Production

179, Traian st.

024043, Bucharest, Romania

Phone: + 4021 252 48 67

Fax: + 4021 252 48 66

Mobile: + 40723 200 640

www.hifilm.ro

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Cor Leonis Films Kft.

Váci u. 56-58

1056 Budapest