George Dorobanțu likes independent movies and not only that he likes them but also he makes some of these. He started with Elevator – his first feature – that was made in 2008 with a $200 dollar budget. The film’s setting was in an… elevator (of course). So we have nothing but a boy, a girl, both stuck on an elevator. This film brought to George Dorobanțu the Best Newcomer award at 2008 TIFF Romanian Days.
This year, the Romanian director has another film included in the TIFF Romanian Days section. It’s his second feature, it’s a documentary (although not a classic documentary), and it’s called Bucharestless.
The film was shot on miniDV with a $1500 dollar budget. Dorobanțu is the director, the scriptwriter, the cinematographer and also the editor. He worked with Alexandra M. Păun (producer and cinematographer) and with Lex Dumitru (music composer).
The producers describe Bucharestless as a city-verite, a conceptual movie with an outside-the-box cinematic perspective, a full-encompassing soundtrack, a sequential narrative approach and no dialogue, that captures the contemporary spirit of a city formerly known as Little Paris.
Bucharestless will be screened for the first time on June 9th, at Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF), in the Romanian Days section. The filmmaker is currently working on another project currently in post-production: Omega Rose. It’s a post-apocalyptic road movie set three years after 99% of Earth’s population has been wiped out. A new genre in Romanian film has a cast includes Mircea Silaghi, Florin Piersic Jr, Cosmin Natanticu, Ion Besoiu, Ioan Gyuri Pascu.
