Chisinau, March 21 (Infotag). A group of Moldovan producers and cinema actors - Mihai Volontir, Valeriu Jereghi, Vlad Druc, Sergiu Prodan, Victor Bucataru and Virgil Margineanu – demanded from the Moldovan authorities to reform the Moldova-film studio in order to revive the Moldovan cinema.

On Wednesday at a press conference in Infotag Vlad Druc remarked that in 2007 Moldova-film will mark its 55th anniversary, but the cinema workers see no particular reason for celebrating.

“Relations between the studio representatives and people of art are fairly hostile. There were conflict always, but the incumbent administration even appealed to the court, because of critical remarks were spoken out and a cinema work was not so good. It is a complete absurd”, Druc said.

He associated this situation with the fact that the cinema studio enjoys a specific independence.

It seems that it is independent from all the state institutions, though its assets include area and main capital worth more than 200 million lei, but it produces annually cinema works worth 1-2 million lei. The Moldova-film administration says that the studio’s property was preserved, only because it was not privatized. It is not exactly so”, the producer underlined.

In his opinion the Moldova-film juridical form must be changed.

The cinema studio must have the status of an enterprise, set up by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as in this way it will be possible to check everything, what is going on there. We demand the reconsideration of the personnel policy, as Moldova-film have currently no specialists and managers in the field of cinematography”, Druc considers.

The producer considers it is high time to change the cinema law, so that the cinema studio would not undertake the fulfillment of all the state orders in the cinematography sector, as in this case nobody is responsible for the quality of films.

They also demanded that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism would organize the view of pictures at the cost of public resources together with an artistic council and only after it films could be recommended for participating in foreign cinema festivals; they requested the state’s support for the Union of Cinematographers’ project to set up the Emil Loteanu Cinema Center, where cinema archive and a cinema museum will be placed.

The producers consider that the delay in the reform of the Moldova-film studio will make the revival of the Moldovan cinematography impossible.

According to Moldova-film, in 2006 it produced 15 documentaries, feature and short films by the state’s order. It will spend 1.45 million lei ($110 thousand) of the budget money for this purpose. Last year the cinema studio premises were repaired, for which purpose 5 million lei ($381 thousand) of the budget resources was allocated. It is planned to produce eight cinema pictures, including two full-length films, in 2007.