The General Director of Moldova-Film S.A., Ion Siman, says the accusations purported by several film-makers, occasioned by the staff changes at Moldova-Film, are aberrations, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting his communique. The film-makers told a news conference, last week, the dismissal of the Moldova-Film manager would be a step up to recovering the cinematography. According to the release, "the news conference called by three members of the Cinematographers Union (CU,) during whose time the cinematography was destroyed and they even contributed to that process, making statements in the name of those over 200 UC members, is impudence." The Moldova-Film manager maintains up to now he has no minutes confirming his dismissal and he is looking forward to them to appeal them in the court. Şiman says he is no servant on the estate of the Minister for Culture and Tourism, Artur Cozma, and, according to the European Convention and the Moldovan Constitution, he has a right to work. At the same time, Siman insists Moldova-Film is in a conflict of interests with the minister. The studio asked the Ministry for an apartment which rested with the minister after ceding the plot on the Toma Ciorba street. Later, it turned out that flat was bought by fraud by Minister Cozma at an insignificant price, without any tender. Ion Siman says: “By his actions Artur Cozma brought damages to the state, worth almost 1 mln lei.” The manager also claims the cinema industry is funded at the lowest level. For the last two years, Artur Cozma has permanently sabotaged the funding of the state order, has blocked it for six months every year. And even with that little money, the studio has produced tens of documentaries, and feature movies. Now, the feature "The Wolves and the Gods" is finalising – the second of such a large scale in the last 20 years. The produced movies enjoyed success, some got awards at international festivals, others, as "Welcome to Moldova" and "Moldova Today", directed by Ion Chistruga, returned the investments and brought profits, Ion Siman says. Earlier, a group of film-makers addressed a news conference saying the authorities should decide whether they were able to fund a studio which produced films under any artistic level. Director Valeriu Jereghi from “Prim-Plan Studio” said an important step for invigorating the industry was to dismiss the “Moldova-Film” manager, Ion Siman. "During the years when “Moldova-Film” was administered by Siman, the studio turned into a break-away state, which ignored the elementary laws and norms of movie-making, which remained with no professionals and opposed move-makers," Valeriu Jereghi said.