Today, August 17th, at the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, commences the Follow-Up of the ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival.

There will be screened all the films included within the Feature Film Competition, including the ANONIMUL Trophy Winner- ZERO, directed by Pawel Borowski (Sunday, August 22nd, 21.00) and those within the Short Fiction and Animation Competitions, including Best Short Fiction- I’LL BE ZORRO SOMEDAY, directed by Joel Olivier, France and Best Animation Short- AMAZONIA, directed by Sam Chen, USA (both on Sunday, starting 18.30).
All the awards were decided upon by the votes cast by the public in Sfantu Gheorghe.

The short film winning the Ovidiu Bose Patina Award, granted by the Anonimul Foundation, TIXEON, directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, Scotland will be similarly screened Sunday, August 22nd, starting 18.30.

Furthermore, we shall replay some of the most important titles within our Actors Behind the Camera section, such as TEENAGE PAPARAZZO, directed by Adrian Grenier, SLIPSTREAM, directed by Anthony Hopkins, as well as the (0)07 Film, FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL, directed by Baillie Walsh.

Omnibus film New York, I Love You, directed by Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman and Brett Ratner will be screened in the opening of the ANONIMUL Follow Up today, August 17th, at 19.00.

The Follow-Up of the ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival will run from August 17th to August 22nd at the New Cinema of The Romanian Director, within the Museum of the Romanian Peasant.

Saturday, August 14th, was the Closing Gala of the 7th edition of the Anonimul International Independent Film Festival, during which the audience decided the its winners:

In the short film section, the following awards were given:

The Ovidiu Bose Pastina Award to the film TIXEON, directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra (Scotland), awarded in the presence of the director.

The audience award for Best Animation Short film was given to the film AMAZONIA, directed by Sam Chen (USA).

The audience award for Best Fiction Short film went to I’LL BE ZORRO SOMEDAY, directed by Joel Olivier (France).

For the feature film competition, the 2010 Anonimul Trophy went to ZERO, directed by Pawel Borowski (Poland), awarded in the presence of the director.

The follow-up of the Anonimul International Film Festival will take place in Bucharest, at the New Cinema of the Romanian Director within the Romanian Peasant Museum, during 17th and 22nd of August.

The ANONIMUL Film Festival continued Thursday, August 12 with the screening of the two following films from the Feature Film Competition – Kino Caravan, directed by Radu Muntean (in the presence of actor Dorian Boguta) and To the Sea, directed by Pedro Gonzales-Rubio (Mexic).

In the Camping area, the evening took off with the viewing of the Polish film, featuring in the Feature Film Competition, Zero, in the presence of director Pawel Borowski.

The highlight of the evening was the screening of Teenage Paparazzo directed by American actor Adrian Grenier (HBO Entourage), followed by a Q&A session with the producer of the film, Matthew Cooke.

Teenage Paparazzo, documentary which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, was screened for the second time in Europe, after its screening at Karlovy Vary in July 2010.

When precocious 13-year-old paparazzo Austin Visschedyk snapped a photo of celebrity Adrian Grenier (HBO’s Entourage), little did he know his life was about to change. Turning the tables on the juvenile paparazzo, Grenier stepped on the other side of the lens in an attempt to mentor a teenager obsessed with the lure of the Hollywood lifestyle. Grenier develops a meaningful relationship with his camera-clicking young friend as he attempts to reconcile their mutual exploitation. Teenage Paparazzo moves beyond personal documentary, charting a cultural revolution of celebrity obsession that may have been born in the United States but stretches across the globe.

The movie was screened in the presence of producer Matthew Cooke, who then engaged the some thousand spectators in the Camping area in a Q&A session moderated by Irina-Margareta Nistor, discussing issues such as the Hollywood lifestyle, the mutual exploitation between celebrities and paparazzi, as well as his overall collaboration with Adrian Grenier.
The American producer will also host a workshop about making docs, on Saturday, August 14th, starting from 16:00, in the Cinema Complex.

The evening’s program further introduced new Short Animation films, and the (0)07 film, Flashbacks of a Fool, starring the most recent 007 agent, Daniel Craig in the leading role, directed by Baillie Walsh.

Today, Friday, August 13th, the Feature Film Competition continues in the Cinema Complex with Foxes, directed by Mira Fornayova (Slovakia-Czechia-Ireland), while the evening is dedicated to HBO, with the premiere screening in Romania of the biographic film Temple Grandin, nominated for no less than 15 Emmy Awards (directed by Mick Jackson) and the The Shukar Collective Project, directed by Matei-Alexandru Mocanu.

The 7th edition of The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the National Ministry of Culture and Patrimony, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Tulcea City Council, the American Cultural Center and the National Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners:Stella Artois, Lavazza with Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: TAROM, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania Literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV

The Festival commenced Tuesday evening with Tarkovsky Redux- Like Spirit Without a Shadow concert. This was the return of Lucian Ban on the ANONIMUL stage, with a new project specifically designed for the Festival.
After last year’s Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, performed by Lucian Ban, Silent Strike, Dan Basu and Sorin Romanescu, in 2010 Lucian Ban returned with Tarkovsky Redux in front of some 2500 spectators. This new project featured American violist and Grammy nominee Mat Maneri.

The evening continued with the screenings of the Short Fiction Competition and two titles from the Feature Film Competition: The Trotsky directed by Jacob Tierney (Canada); in the presence of producer Kevin Tierney, father of the director and Slovenian Girl directed by Damjan Kozole (Slovenia).

Tonight, Romanian film Kino Caravan – directed by Titus Muntean, will be screened in the Camping area, in the presence of actor Dorian Boguta.

Further on, the main Parallel Program, Actors behind camera, will present Natalie Portman’s segment of New York, I Love You, and will go on to introduce Slipstream, directed by Anthony Hopkins.

The 7th edition of The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the National Ministry of Culture and Patrimony, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Tulcea City Council, the American Cultural Center and the National Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners:Stella Artois, Lavazza with Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: TAROM, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania Literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV

The Opening Gala of the 7th edition of ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival took place Monday, August 9th, with the attendance of some thousand spectators.

The host of the evening was actor Florin Piersic Jr., with interventions from Miruna Micu-Berescu, Ludmila Cvikova and Irina-Margareta Nistor.
There followed the screening of Certified Copy/ Copie conforme, directed by Abbas Kiarostami, premiering in Romania, after the Official Selection in Cannes 2010.
The evening also marked the beginning of the Short Film Competition and the Feature Film Competition – with On the Path, film directed by Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia- Herzegovina).

Screenings inside the Cinema Complex began Tuesday, August 10th, with Radu Muntean’s most recent film Tuesday, After Christmas, in the presence of actress Maria Popistasu and screenwriter Alexandru Baciu.
Today, Microsoft Romania introduced the project Anonimul-framed by Photosynth, played by Silverlight.

The evening will take off with Tarkovsky Redux, a live performance by Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri- nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006, Silent Strike and Dan Basu. The project is a sequel of Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests – Anonimul 2009 and was created especially for this edition of the Festival.
The Feature Film Competition continues tonight in the Camping area with The Trotsky, directed by Jacob Tierney (Canada) and in the presence of Kevin Tierney- producer of the film and Slovenian Girl, directed by Damjan Kozole (Slovenia- Germany- Serbia- Croatia- Bosnia Herzegovina).

The 7th edition of The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the National Ministry of Culture and Patrimony, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Tulcea City Council, the American Cultural Center and the National Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners:Stella Artois, Lavazza with Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: TAROM, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania Literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV

The International Independent ANONIMUL Film Festival, the 7th edition, will take place between the 9th and 15th of August, in Sfantu Gheorghe, the Danube Delta.

The ANONIMUL IIFF first introduced its program, Actors behind Camera, in 2008. Since then, films made by famous actors such as Sean Penn, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gael Garcia Bernal or Isabella Rossellini were seen exclusively at the ANONIMUL Film Festival.

In 2010, the section Actors behind Camera announces the special screening of Teenage Paprazzo, directed by Adrian Grenier, known to the public for his part in the HBO series Entourage.

Teenage Paparazzo follows the cultural revolution of celebrity obsession, which began in the US and gradually stretched across the globe.

After Austin Visschedyck, a precocious 13 year old paparazzo, manages to snap a photo of Adrian Grenier, his life changes without him realizing it. Stepping on the other side of the camera, Grenier switches places with the young paparazzo in his endeavor to mentor this teenager, who is obsessed with the Hollywood lifestyle.

The documentary features American show-business stars such as Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell, Eva Longoria Parker or Paris Hilton.

The world premiere of Teenage Paparazzo was at the Sundance Film Festival 2010, and the European premiere was at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, one month ago.

ANONIMUL IIFF presents the film’s second European screening, premiering in Romania on Thursday, August 12th.

Matthew Cooke, the producer of Teenage Paparazzo, is the Special Guest of the ANONIMUL Film Festival.

American producer Cooke already has one Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature, in 2007, for Deliver Us from Evil.

The documentary shed light upon the scandal built around father Oliver O’Grady, who has sexually abused children for 30 years, while he was constantly being transferred from one parish to another by the Catholic Church.

Matthew Cookewill be present at the screening of Teenage Paparazzo, and he will then participate in a Q&A; session concerning the movie.

Talks with the American producer will continue on Friday, August 13th, as he will speak about making docs and about his collaboration with Adrian Grenier, especially as he is currently working on a new documentary – How to Make Money Selling Drugs, directed by Cooke and produced by Grenier.

The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival announces the press conference dedicated to the festival’s 7th edition, on Friday, August 6th, at 10.30, at Clubul Taranului, Muzeul Taranului Roman (no. 3 Kiseleff, Monetariei str).

The 7th edition of The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the National Ministry of Culture and Patrimony, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Tulcea City Council, the American Cultural Center and the National Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners: Stella Artois, Lavazza with Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: TAROM, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania Literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV

ANONIMUL Film Festival announces the special screening of TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS, Radu Muntean’s latest title.

The film was included in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes 2010 and recently garnered Best actress- Mirela Oprisor, at the Sarajevo Film Festival.

Paul Hanganu (Mimi Branescu) is married to Adriana (Mirela Oprisor) for 10 years. They share a daughter, a car, an apartment and seem to be in love. Paul also has an affair with Raluca (Maria Popistasu), a 25 years old dentist. Paul loves them both, but when they meet randomly, he has to decide.

Radu Muntean, director of feature films Rage (2002) and the Paper Will be Blue

(2006), garnered Best Director for Boogie at Anonimul Film Festival in 2008.

In 2009, the Anonimul Festival initiated its collaboration with Romanian artist residing in New York, Lucian Ban with the presentation of Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, with artists Sorin Romanescu, Silent Strike and Dan Basu.

In 2010, Lucian Ban puts forward a new project specifically designed for the festival: Tarkovsky Redux – like spirit without a shadow.

The project features American violist Mat Maneri nominated at the Grammy Awards in 2006 for Best Alternative Album, with the very same Silent Strike and Dan Basu.

Scenes from Tarkovsky’s notorious films – The Mirror, Nostalghia, The Sacrifice and Stalker- are re- imagined and projected live by Dan Basu, on the music composed and performed by Mat Maneri, Lucian Ban and Silent Strike, in a new and spectacular project, premiering at Anonimul.

The 7th edition of The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the National Ministry of Culture and Patrimony, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Tulcea City Council, the American Cultural Center and the National Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners:Stella Artois, Lavazza with Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: TAROM, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania Literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV

 

The ANONIMUL Film Festival will screen 2 exceptional films, premiering in Romania: Certified Copy/ Copie conforme – Cannes Official Selection, 2010 and Temple Grandin – 15 nominations at the 2010 Emmy Awards

The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival, the seventh edition, will run from the 9^th to the 15^th of August 2010.

The Festival opens Monday, August 9^thfont face=”Tahoma, sans-serif”>, with the premiere screening of Certified Copy/ Copie Conforme, Iranian Directors’ Abbas Kiarostami most recent film. Included in the Cannes Festival Official Selection, the film garnered the Best Actress Award – Juliette Binoche.

The film follows the story of a man and a woman meeting in an Italian Village South Tuscany. The man, a British writer, has just finished giving a lecture in a conference; the woman, from France, owns an art gallery: a universal story that could happen to anyone, anywhere.

Abbas Kiarostomi is notorious for films such as Under the Olive Trees- Official Selection– Cannes 1994, Taste of Cherry – Golden Palm 1997, The Wind Will Carry Us – Official Selection, Venice 1999 and Ten– Official Selection, Cannes 2002. He wrote, together with Ken Loach and Ermanno Olmi, a segment of the film Tickets, screened at ANONIMUL Film Festival in 2007, in the presence of Ken Loach.

 

Part of the HBO – ANONIMUL Film Festival partnership, initiated in 2007, The HBO Night will presentTemple Grandin (which premiered on HBO USA in the spring of 2010), directed by Mick Jackson, nominated for no less that 15 Emmy Awards, among which Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special, Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie – Claire Danes and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special.

Temple Grandin was diagnosed with autism in 1950 aged 3. In 2010, she is a professor at the Colorado University, holds a PhD in Animal Science and is a fervent activist for those with autism.

Based on the biography of Temple Grandin, interpreted by Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet, 1996, Stage Beauty, 2004, Stardust, 2007, and Me and Orson Welles 2008), the film chronicles her early diagnosis, the turbulent growth and development during her school years, the enduring support she received from her mother (Julia Ormond), aunt (Catherine O’Hara) and science teacher (David Strathairn), and her emergence as a woman with an innate sensitivity and understanding of animal behavior.

The HBO Evening also includes the screening of The Shukar Collective Project, directed by Alexandru Mocanu, that presents a project which by no means limited to music, but one that surprises the interaction between two different cultures: old and new, traditional and avantgarde, electronic music and music that is created with the use of spoons and barrels

The 7th edition of The ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the National Ministry of Culture and Patrimony, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Tulcea City Council, the American Cultural Center and the National Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners:Stella Artois, Lavazza with Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: TAROM, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Parteners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania Literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV

ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival, running from August 9th to August 15^th 2010, in Sfantu Gheorghe, the Danube Delta, announces the titles included within its three sections:

The 7 titles put forward by selector Ludmila Cvikova for the Feature Film Competition of this 7th edition are:
 

 

ZERO, directed by Pawel Borowski, Poland, 2009

Nominated for International Jury Award – São Paulo International Film Festival, 2009

LIŠTIČKY/ FOXES, directed by Mira Fornayova, Slovakia- Czech Republic – Ireland, 2009

International Film Critics’ Week- Venice 2009

ALAMAR/ TO THE SEA, directed by Pedro González-Rubio, Mexico, 2009

Tiger Award- Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2010

SLOVENKA / SLOVENIAN GIRL, directed by Damjan Kozole, Slovenia- Germany- Serbia- Croatia- Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2009

Contemporary World Cinema, Toronto International Film Festival, 2009

Official Competition, Sarajevo Film Festival 2009

CARAVANA CINEMATOGRAFICA/ KINO CARAVAN, directed by Titus Muntean, Romania, 2009

Balkan Survey, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 2009

THE TROTSKY, directed by Jacob Tierney, Canada, 2009

Audience Award- Tokyo International Film Festival, 2009

NA PUTU/ ON THE PATH, directed by Jasmila Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina- Austria- Germany- Croatia, 2010

Official Competition, Berlinale 2010

The 7 titles are competing for the ANONIMUL Trophy, amounting to USD 3000, exclusively awarded by the audience attending the Festival.

350 short films, from 36 countries entered the short film competition, 45 of which were Romanian productions. The entries opened February 2010 and came to an end in June 2010.

The selection by film critic Irina Margareta Nistor comprises some 30 fiction short films and 20 animation shorts.

The Romanian entries within the fiction short competition:

BEFORE AND AFTER 22-12-1989, directed by Andrei Cohn

MIDAS AND THE GHOST STORY, directed by Jamil Hendi

ELA, directed by Tudor Jurgiu

MUSIC IN THE BLOOD, directed by Alexandru Mavrodineanu

DERBY, directed by Paul Negoescu

MY SISTER AND I, directed by Ozana Nicolau

NO NEWS, directed by Alexandru Stanescu

POOLS, GERMANY, directed by Emanuel Vasiliu

The Romanian entries within the animation short competition:

BAD HABBITS, directed by Oana-Catalina Gheorghiu

VIVE LA CRISE, directed by Alexei Gubenco
 

The selected short films are disputing the Award for Best Fiction Short and respectively Best Animation Short, each adding up to USD 1000. For the fiction short film competition, the Anonimul Foundation will decide upon the film receiving the Ovidiu Bose Pastina Award, of USD 1000.

The press accreditations have further been opened on our website at http://www.festival-anonimul.ro/accreditation_ro , deadlined July 28th.
 

The 7th edition of the ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival is organized by the Anonimul Foundation, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Ministry of Regional Development and Tourism, the Tulcea County Council, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Romanian Television, associate producer.

Partners: Stella Artois, Lavazza amidst Blue Coffee Service, HBO Romania, Microsoft Romania, the Soros Foundation Romania

With the support of: Tarom, BMW Group Romania, TNT Romania, Golden Tulip Victoria Bucharest Hotel, Clubul Taranului

Media Partners: Radio Guerrilla, 24FUN, Academia Catavencu, Romania literara, The One, Cinemagia, Green Channel TV, Happy Fish TV