Libra Film is an independent film/TV production company founded in 1994.
Most recent production is Tudor Giurgiu’s first feature film
Love Sick, a Libra Film, Multimedia Est and Transilvania Film co-production with the support of Romanian Film Center, Hubert Bals Fund, SEE Cinema Network, Global Film Initiative and Media Planing Group. In February 2006, Love Sick had its exclusive world premiere within the Berlin International Film Festival, Panorama section. Love Sick won Grand Jury Prize at Image+Nation Montreal International LGBT Film Festival and at the Pecs International Festival in Hungary, Ioana Barbu was awarded The Best Actress Prize, for her debut as Alex in Love Sick. Montreal and Pecs add to an impressive list of international festivals where the movie has been invited this season. Among these Pusan IFF, Chicago IFF, Edinburgh IFF (England), Karlovi Vary IFF, Cottbus FF, Sarajevo IFF, Moscow IFF, Transilvania IFF (Romania), Seattle IFF, Toronto IFF, Warsaw IFF, Turin IGLFF and Linea d’Ombra Salerno IFF ( Italy), Los Angeles IFF, Sarasota IFF, Cleveland IFF (USA), Hong Kong GLFF, Rio de Janeiro FF, Sao Paulo IFF, Umea IFF (Sweden), Sofia IFF, Ghent IFF (Belgium), Sevilla IFF etc.
Among Romanian films Love Sick got the first position in the Romanian box-office of the year.
Libra produced in 2004 the long documentary Great Communist Bank Robbery, co-production with Les Films D’Ici (France), BBC, ZDF/ARTE, France 2 with support of Eurimages, Jan Vrijman Fund and Discovery Campus Masterschool and awarded at several int’l film festivals.
Involved in production of TV commercials, music videos and shorts, Libra has become one of the most respected players in the local industry.
Libra offered also production services for foreign producers coming to shoot in Romania, also provided casting services for films like Veit Helmer’s Tuvalu or Michael Haneke’s Wolfzeit.
Also, LIBRA FILM offers service support for the film Delta, Kornél Mundruczó’s next feature film shot in the Danube Delta. Delta is a co production of PROTON CINEMA (Hungary) and ESSENTIAL FILM (Germany). Production to be continued at the beginning of spring 2007.
Libra Film is currently developing the debut feature of the world-acclaimed theater director Silviu Purcarete, Conversation with Serafim, project already awarded with Balkan Fund Award and Medienboard Berlin – Brandenburg Grant, both for script development in 2005. Recently, the project won a Production Grant from CNC Romania (National Center of Cinematography). A fascinating story about a hallucinating time and place in Romania and about human failure. Tragic and terribly hilarious, a rich material for an international co production to be shot in 2007 – 2008.