Romania’s Revamped 30% Cash Rebate Looks to Rebuild Trust in Industry

Romania’s Revamped 30% Cash Rebate Looks to Rebuild Trust in Industry

After pressing pause on its cash rebate program due to outstanding debts and suffering through a prolonged production drought, Romania is finally coming in from the cold, with a revamped incentive scheme that is bolstering the hopes of the domestic industry heading into the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival and bringing foreign productions back to the … Read more

Transilvania Film Festival Toasts 25 Years of Provocative Programming

Transilvania Film Festival Toasts 25 Years of Provocative Programming

With memories of Cristian Mungiu’s second Palme d’Or, for the Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve-starring “Fjord,” still fresh just weeks after the director’s latest Cannes triumph, you’d be hard-pressed to recall a time when Romanian filmmakers weren’t feted on world cinema’s biggest stages. Unless, that is, you asked the organizers of the Transilvania Intl. Film … Read more