The organizers of the Debut Film Festival in Chisinau announce that this year, for the first time, the event dedicated to young filmmakers will include Moldovan-Romanian cooperation. Young people from across the Prut are also invited to present their films at the festival. The event is scheduled to take place on November 8, 9 and 10 in Chisinau. Applications for registration are accepted by October 20.
In a news conference hosted IPN, the president of the Union of Filmmakers of Moldova Virgiliu Mărgineanu said the festival, which has asserted itself as an important event in the field of cultural projects, especially film projects in the Republic of Moldova, seeks to encourage young people to present their works on the big screen. This year, the festival is also open to works by young filmmakers from Romania. “We discussed with the National Film Center to try and expand the festival and to establish, for the first time, Moldovan-Romanian cooperation so as to bring works by young people from Romania. In this regard, we initiated a partnership with the University of Theater and Film of Romania,” stated Virgiliu Mărgineanu.
Debut Film Festival director Vlad Druc noted that he had discussions with counterparts from Romania. “Bogdan Mustaţă, from the Film and Directing Department of the University, also has a class and we want to bring the last bachelor theses, the best, not all of them, and to make a kind of competition-comparison with those of our students. This is necessary because we have been estranged for so long. In the 1990s, when the fences were broken, we, those from Moldova Film, participated for the first time in the Costineşti Festival, where we went with our Bessarabian films. The impact was extraordinary, probably also because of the feeling of brotherhood,” said the director.
Vlad Druc welcomed the cooperation between the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts of Chisinau and the University of Bucharest. “We want the young filmmakers’ participation in the Debut Festival to be like at home,” he stated.
The Debut Film Festival is a festival-competition that will be judged and in which prizes will be conferred, including the Best Documentary Award, the Directing Award or the Screenplay Award. The overall goal of the project is to provide a platform for young filmmakers to make their cinematographic creations known.
The event is organized by the Union of Filmmakers of Moldova, the Ministry of Culture and the National Film Center, in partnership with the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts.
The event will be hosted by the Odeon Cultural Center. Admission will be free of charge.
The press conference was held within the “Double integration through cooperation and information. Continuity” project that is implemented by IPN News Agency with funding from the Department for Relations with the Republic of Moldova of the Government of Romania. The content of this article does not represent the official position of the Department for Relations with the Republic of Moldova.
