Romanian Filmmakers Call on Head of Romanian Film Center to Step Down
variety.comIulia Blaga More than 90 film professionals in Romania have requested that the head of the Romanian Film Center (CNC), Anca Mitran, steps down, after an interview in which she said that in recent years Romanian filmmakers have been making art films instead of films for the audience, and that documentaries are not meant to be screened in movie theaters, according to Film New Europe.
The first to protest were a handful of documentary filmmakers, including Alexandru Solomon, Andrei Ujica and Andrei Dascalescu, and film editor Dana Bunescu, who launched an open letter signed by Alexander Nanau, Radu Jude, Calin Peter Netzer, Radu Muntean and Stere Gulea, among others.
According to the signatories, Mitran is “attacking” Romanian art films while expressing her regret that films like those made under the Communist regime (historical films, comedies, love stories, and so on) are not being made anymore.
She is also inaccurate, they said, when she said that documentaries are not popular in Romania. “‘In the last 10 years we made over 100 documentaries.
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