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FUNDING Romania

Romanian Film Centre announces 2010 grants

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Fifteen features, five of which are debut films, have received production funding from the Romanian Film Centre.

The largest production grant (€400,000) went to Libra Film's Despre oameni si melci (“Of Men and Snails”). This comedy about a group of workers who find an ingenious solution to save their financially challenged factory is the second film by Tudor Giurgiu, who made a name for himself with Love Sick, included in the 2006 Berlinale’s Panorama sidebar.

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The second largest production grant went to MediaPro and the controversial filmmaker Sergiu Nicolaescu. Although his last films were poorly received by critics and audiences, the old-school director's Ultimul corupt al Romaniei (“Romania's Last Corrupt Man”) was granted approximately €350,000.

El Rumano, the story of a Romanian immigrant in Spain, directed by Catalin Mitulescu (The Way I Spent the End of the World [+see also:
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) and produced by Strada Films, was considered the best project by the Romanian Film Centre's jury, but received only the third largest grant, approximately €300,000.

Grants of approximately €250,000 also went to Radu Jude's family drama Toata lumea din familia noastra (“Everybody in Our Family”); Iguanele (“Iguanas”), written and directed by recent Locarno winner Marian Crisan (Morgen [+see also:
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); Horatiu Malaele's European comedy Doar cu buletinul la Paris (“You Need Only Your ID for Paris”); Adrian Sitaru's Domestic; and Constantin Popescu's sequel to Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man [+see also:
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, Elisabeta Rizea.

The same amount was granted to debut features, the best project of which was deemed Bogdan Mustata's Lupu (“Wolf”). The film tells the story of a young athlete and his family problems and is produced by Strada Film, also behind the director’s Golden Bear-winning short A Good Day for a Swim.

Tudor Jurgiu (Oli's Wedding) received a grant for Cainele japonez (“The Japanese Dog”), produced by Libra Film; TV director Valentin Hotea for Roxanne by the Police (HiFilm); actor Bogdan Dumitrache for Angelica (Filmex); and Andrei Cohn for Tandem Film’s Acasa la tata (“At My Father's”).

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