Independent film director and assistant professor at the Faculty of Theatre and Film Babeș-Bolyai Ion Indolean was this week’s guest at the Screen Social Research Project. 

The lecture focused on independent film production and distribution in Romania. Indolean, who directed “Discordia” (2016) and “Toni and his friends” (2020), lectured on what it means to be an independent director in Romania, what are the ups and downs of the profession. He also made recommendations on how to deal with issues that might occur in the preproduction, production, sources of funding, the minimum budget needed for producing a movie, post-production, festival participation and distribution of films. Indolean also presented his two ongoing projects, the documentary “The Last Line” and the fiction movie “99”. Even though the challenges in producing and distributing an independent movie in Romania are significant, Ion Indolean concluded that being an independent director in Romania is only possible with a great deal of passion.