Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema Takes Place Again at Lincoln Center

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Published on Saturday, 30 November 2013 00:58

Written by Brad Balfour

As audiences become more and more comfortable with seeing international cinema, contemporary Romanian filmmaking has comes to the fore with such directors as Cristian Mungiu have won international accolades and global distribution.

Part of the reason for this success has be the longtime support of Romanian films by The Film Society of Lincoln Center. Launched eight years ago, Making Waves, the festival for New Romanian Cinema, has been showcasing new Romanian directors and actors -- at first as part of the New York based Romanian Cultural Center and now through an independent organization, the Romanian Film Initiative.  

Now co-presented by the Film Society and the Romanian Film Initiative, this series has been hailed a "weeklong survey that has helped define and establish the southeastern European country as a stronghold of socially incisive, independently minded personal cinema." 

For its second consecutive year, Making Waves is now a fully independent festival of Romanian contemporary cinema and culture, made possible through the support of private funders and individual donations, including a number of Romanian artists who believe that audiences at home and abroad deserve unfettered access to the best of Romanian contemporary culture.

This year, the series expands with a selection of the line up also screening at the Jacob Burns Film Center from December 5-10, and continues its partnership with Transilvania International Film Festival.

To see the full lineup , schedule and ticket packages go to: filmetc.org or on Facebook for updates from the Romanian Film Initiative.

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