10/04/2014 - Cristian Mungiu and his project RMN receive a record-breaking €1 million

The Romanian National Film Center has split approximately €6.7 million across the production and development of new film projects. The lion's share of the funding went to Cristian Mungiu's fourth feature, RMN, which was awarded a record-breaking €1 million. Here are the winners in the fiction-feature and first-fiction-feature categories:

Fiction feature film:

Cristian Mungiu, RMN, Mobra Films, €1 million
Tudor Giurgiu, The Closeness, Libra Film, €450,000
Cătălin Mitulescu, The Mountain Girl, Strada Films, €468,000
Cristi Puiu, Sierra Nevada, Mandragora, €367,000
Radu Jude, Scarred Hearts, Hi Film Productions, €340,000
Corneliu Porumboiu, The Treasure, 42 Km Film, €352,000
Florin Piersic Jr, The Summer Is Over, Icon Production, €188,000
Anca Damian, Perfectly Healthy, Aparte Film, €170,000
Iulia Rugină, Love Building 2, Actoriedefilm.ro, €52,000
Iura Luncaşu, Only If It's a Girl, MediaPro Entertainment, €128,000
Horaţiu Mălăele, Vittorio, Fundaţia Teatru Contemporan, €152,000
Iulia Rugină, Breaking News, Hai-Hui Entertainment, €117,000
Peter Greenaway, Walking to Paris, Abis Studio, €65,000
Corneliu Gheorghiţă, Report from the Gate of the Orient, Gheorghiţă SRL, €64,000
Ruxandra Zenide, The Miracle of Tekir [+see also:
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Jesus del Cerro, Herăstrău, MediaPro Entertainment, €30,000

First feature film:

Daniel Sandu, One Step Behind the Seraphim [+see also:
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Anca Miruna Lăzărescu, On the Road with My Father, Strada Film, €380,000
Radu Dragomir, Mo [+see also:
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Andrei Creţulescu, Charlton Heston, Icon Production, €127,000
Adriano Valerio, Banat [+see also:
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Bogdan Mirică, Dogs [+see also:
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Emanuel Pârvu, Laz Mahale, Icon Production, €5,000

Twelve short-film projects received a total of €315,000, while seven short and feature-length animation projects shared a total of €634,000. An amount of €653,000 was split among ten documentary projects.