Romanian animation at the Anim’est roundtable

Romanian animated film night will be thoroughly analysed at the round table dedicated to it, Thursday, October 14th 2010, from 12 a.m., at Union Cinema by moderator Daniel Todoran-Rareş, sociologist and chief-editor of online publication animationmagazine.eu. He will be joined by Romanian born Danish director and first ever professional puppet animator in Denmark, Mihai Bădică, animator Virgil Toader, trained at Animafilm and one of the youngest and most active Romanian animated film directors, Matei Branea. There will also be guests coming from the National Cinematography Council, the Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony and Romanian film producers, all ready to analyse several taboo topics in Romanian cinema like the past and the present in Romanian animation, the training of Romanian animators, the situation of animation studios, the Northern, American or Asian models.

The round table will be followed at 2 p.m. by a screening of the films selected in the Romanian Film Competition held at Union Cinema.