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Courtesy of Transilvania Film Festival When Transilvania Intl. Film Festival founder Tudor Giurgiu began sketching the blueprint for the first edition 25 years ago, the then up-and-coming director knew he wanted the country’s first international film event to be more than just a showcase of new Romanian cinema.
“I was dreaming that we could not just screen our films but present our upcoming projects to decision-makers. To have industry here,” says Giurgiu, who was still several years away from making his directorial debut with the 2006 Berlinale premiere “Love Sick.” The prospects for Romanian filmmakers were, by his own admission, “shitty”; Giurgiu even considered emigrating in search of greener pastures.
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