Slow moves to digital television in Romania
Romanian Ministry of Communications and Information Society (http://www.mcsi.ro/) is expected to present a new draft for the strategy to transfer to digital television.
Ad market revenues drop in 2009
The TV advertising market has dropped by over 30% in Romania in the first half of 2009.
Production: Dan Chişu starts shooting The Bear
Writer/director Dan Chişu's film The Bear, winner of the Connecting Cottbus "Best Pitch Award," began filming August 3.
Romanian box office on the rise
Due to multiplexes and 3D, local box-office projects growth of as much as 25% in 2009 compared to last year.
Production: Constantin Popescu preps Principles of Life
Constantin Popescu (Tales from the Golden Age) has finished post-production of Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man and started pre-production of Principles of Life.
Production: Nicolae Mărgineanu finishes doc about Securitate surveillance
Nicolae Mărgineanu is in post-production with his documentary film Surveilled by the Securitate between 1970-1980.
Production: Marian Crişan preps his first feature
Marian Crişan (Palme d'Or for the short Megatron in 2008) will shoot his first feature this autumn.
TV channels welcome state money to promote tourism
The Romanian Ministry of Tourism is spending €924,000 to promote local tourism on three Romanian television stations.
Production: Florin Iepan explores Odessa massacre
Documentary filmmaker Florin Iepan (The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan; Children of the Decree; Bela Lugosi - The Fallen Vampire) is tapping a difficult subject, the massacre committed by…
Tales from the Golden Age sold to 25 territories
The portmanteau film about life in communist era written by Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) and directed by Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hoefer, Răzvan Mărculescu, Constantin Popescu…
Production: Radu Muntean preps Tuesday after Christmas
The Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean continues his "étude des caractères" with Tuesday after Christmas, a look at the pending break-up of a ten-year marriage.
Kanal D goes international
S.C. Dogan Media International S.A. will extend the broadcasting of Kanal D TV channel abroad, having received approval from Romanian National Audiovisual Council (CNA) (www.cna.ro) in early July.
Digi Sport TV receives license
Digi Sport TV channel has received a license to launch a sports channel from the Romanian National Audiovisual Council (CNA), two months after the launch of another Romanian sports channel,…
New operational manager for MediaPro
Liviu Gheorghe is replacing Florin Alexandrescu as operational manager at MediaPro Romania.
Chello Zone takes over Romantica TV
Chello Zone has fought off a competitor for control of the Romanian station Romantic TV.
Cinema Public Fund faces cut
The Romanian National Lottery and casinos wil be exempt from contributing to the Cinema Public Fund under a new ruling.
Production: Miss Christina in preproduction
Director Adrian Istria d'Elner is preparing a film adaptation of Mircea Eliade's novella, Miss Christina, a romantic drama set in the 30s.
Production: Tanti in postproduction
Romanian filmmaker Şerban Marinescu is completing Tanti, a contemporary drama from a script written by Mircea Daneliuc.
Production: Bogdan Apetri shooting feature debut
Outskirts (Periferic) the feature debut from director Bogdan Apetri, written by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru (Tales from the Golden Age) is in shooting through August 3.
Romanian TV revenues continue to fall
General Romanian TV channel revenues dropped 40%, while thematic TV channels revenues dropped by 30% between January and May 2009.
