Marin Apostol

Not much production news had been mentioned on the development of Vlad since a pair of mentions in winter of 09' and early spring this year, but if we go by Princess Lia of Romania's words who was present at the exhibition "Dracula - prince or vampire" hosted by the National Art Museum, then production will indeed begin sometime soon. Confirming that the outside shots of this movie will be filmed at Curtea de Arges, in Romania, and that the interiors, will be filmed in Bulgaria, we should expect some casting news to eventually make the rounds.

Gerard Depardieu and Harvey Keitel will be heading to Romania to play in an adaptation of Titus Popovici novel Moartea lui Ip (The Ip's Death) - the feature will be known as So I Say. In the director's chair we find Bogdan Dumitrescu Dreyer, whose previous work includes Never Enough (2004), The Last Station (1998) and also Thalassa, Thalassa (1993) – the Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam Film Festival.

Locarno's new artistic director Olivier Pere is certainly sticking to some of the trends he helped support while at Cannes, this year's Locarno's slate features a record number for Romanian films than in the previous editions. The 63rd Festival del Film Locarno 2010 will see first time feature film works from Marian Crisan (Morgen) and Bogdan George Apetri's “Periferic” (“Outbound”) - both will compete in The “Concorso internazionale” (International Competition), among other World of International premieres of 18 feature films from all over the globe.

They say you're never to old to learn a new trick, as is the case for Ozana Oancea. A graduate from The National University of Theater and Cinematography I.L. Caragiale back in 1991, Oancea waited a long time before taking on her first on screen role. First of all, Felicia is the helming debut from co-directors Razvan Radulescu and Melissa de Raaf and judging from her response in this interview, I'd say she's now got the "on screen" acting bug.