The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
The Department of Slavic Languages, UCLA
The Romanian Club, UCLA
with the support of the Consulate General of Romania in Los Angeles and the South East European Film Festival, Los Angeles
invite you to
GRAB A BITE! A TASTE OF THE NEW ROMANIAN FILMS OF 2009 with Mihai Chirilov, Scott Foundas & others
In the past three years, Romanian Cinema burst on the international scene and got wide recognition. The time has come to prove that the so-called New Wave wasn't a one-hit-wonder. This year's Berlin Film Festival featured a strong Romanian presence (two feature film debuts and two short films) and there's already a frantic buzz surrounding the new titles slated to open in Cannes. Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) is back on track with an ambitious omnibus project that he wrote and co-directed, TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE. Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest) returns with a far more radical second film. Razvan Radulescu, the officially acknowledged screenwriter of the New Wave, directed his first feature that he co-wrote, FELICIA, FIRST OF ALL, while Bobby Paunescu, the producer of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, made his first steps as a director with FRANCESCA, produced by Cristi Puiu.
Join us for an exclusive introduction to the most anticipated Romanian features and documentaries of 2009! Following the great critical response to the Romanian films previously released in the US, the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York and its partners kindly invite festival programmers and movie lovers alike to attend this presentation. The film menu, complete with snippets from the above mentioned titles and several others, is planned by Mihai Chirilov, film critic and director of Transilvania International Film Festival, and will be followed by a roundtable dedicated to the future of the Romanian New Wave, with the participation of Scott Foundas, film critic for LA Weekly and the Village Voice, and Vera Mijojlic, director of SEE Film Festival. Also in person: actress Monica Dean (FRANCESCA), and co-director Ioana Uricaru (TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE).
RSVP at icrny@icrny.org
[Image: Monica Dean in "Francesca"]
