MediaPro Distribution

September 24, 2009 World Screen
Anca Truta
General Manager
 

What are some of your top properties for MIPCOM?

 

With a spectacular new lineup, MediaPro Distribution’s main goal for MIPCOM is to impress its clients and potential buyers with the newest and absolutely revolutionary TV productions and feature films. From ground breaking prime-time long running series, to much awaited TV movies and feature films, MediaPro Distribution’s portfolio is enriched by the best Promance International and Media Pro Pictures’s programming available. As an exclusive premiere for MIPCOM, we are going to present: Aniela; State of Romania, Student at Sorbonne and HO HO HO together with the internationally renowned productions Regina and Gypsy Heart.
 
The event prime-time long running series Aniela is the first Romanian costume drama, the first Romanian romance that puts the amazing Belle Epoque age into a fascinating story. Aside from Aniela, we will also be presenting another two brand new, 100 percent original productions. HO HO HOis the first Romanian Christmas comedy ever, a feel-good movie with the beat of a crazy laugh-out-loud story, about Horatiu, an 8-year-old boy who strongly believes in Santa. Taken by his mother to the mall as a Christmas gift, an ordinary day turns into a boisterous adventure when he gets lost. He meets Ion, a small-time crook disguised as Santa Claus, who tries to still a diamond in complicity with four other fake Santas. Ion is rude and doesn’t like children but in the end, the cynical Santa grows fond of the kid and everybody learns that miracles do happen.
Produced in 2009 by Media Pro Pictures, starring an impressive cast including Stefan Banica, one of the most beloved Romanian singers and also the host of the most popular tv show in Romania, Dancing with the stars.        
HO HO HOwill be released in Romanian cinemas on November 27, on DVD on December 5th and on ProTV on Christmas Day. 
 
Another hilarious TV comedy is ; State of Romania, Student at Sorbonne, the story of State Potcovaru, the king of beggars. He has become an internationally notorious TV brand after the exceptional success of the well-known prime-time long–running series Gypsy Heart and its sequel, Regina,our highly acclaimed productions which will also be proudly presented this year, along with our catalogue of over 1000 hours of quality local TV fiction.

 

 
Is there any other information you would like to share regarding your plans for MIPCOM?

 

At this year’s MIPCOM market, MediaPro Distribution, together with its partners, Media Pro Pictures and Promance, is excited to share an exclusive experience. We welcome you at our stand 18.10, located in the Main Level of the Palais, to showcase, as an absolute premiere, three brand new, 100-percent original productions Aniela; State of Romania, Student at Sorbonne and HO HO HO.
 
Ruxandra Ion
VP, MediaPro Pictures
Managing Director & General Producer, Promance
 
 
Tell me about Promance’s latest production Aniela

Aniela is a prime-time long-running series, the most important production that ACASA will broadcast starting this fall. Aniela is a costume drama and tells a wonderful love story. It is the most expensive production of Promance (Label MediaPro Pictures) until now.  

Why is this title going to be so appealing for buyers?

 

Aniela will show a world forgotten long ago, an elegant, educated, rich and romantic era in Romania’s history. For this series have been reconstructed and brought back to life all the elements that help to show a more faithful imagine of Bucharest in 1900: over 1000 costumes of the period, 96 interior settings, makeup and hair specialist, a cast made up of great and important Romanian actors.