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MANIFESTO
When the finest Our artists have consistenly won awards in Cannes, Venice, Berlin and nominations for Academy Awards, Golden Globes and BAFTA financiers, producers, and artists collaborate, you get Eastern Europe’s most comprehensive film development, production, and post-production hub. At Avanpost, we approach each project by diving deep into its essence. By understanding the unique identity of every project and having all departments under one roof, we ensure a holistic, integrated workflow that highlights its distinctiveness and creative vision We bring creativity to life by ensuring a holistic, integrated production and post-production process that elevates each project’s unique identity.
Avanpost is where innovation and artistry converge, making us the go-to partner for filmmakers seeking the very best Our work speaks for itself. For reference, check out our filmography below. in film production and post-production throughout the region.
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Cristian Mungiu-Penned ‘Traffic,’ Directed by Teodora Ana Mihai, Wins at Warsaw Film Festival
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‘Colonialists’ Clash With ‘Barbarians’ in Teodora Ana Mihai’s Heist Drama ‘Traffic,’ Written by Cristian Mungiu: ‘There Are No Heroes Here’
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Oscar Winner Danis Tanovic’s ‘My Late Summer’ to Open Sarajevo Film Festival
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‘Nasty’ Serves Up Punchy Portrait of ’70s Tennis Bad Boy Ilie Nastase Who Helped Define Era
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‘Where Elephants Go’: Transilvania Review
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A Shelter Among The Clouds (2018)
Robert Budina
SERVICES
Avanpost stands as the leader We set the standard for excellence and innovation. in film production and post-production services in Romania and Eastern Europe, offering a comprehensive 360-degree approach to every project.
Development & Production
Development
• Script development
• Pitch packaging
Pre-production
• Budgeting
• Financing
• Location Scouting
• Set Design
Production Services
• Set Construction
• Principal Photography
Onset and near-set services
• DIT services with live-grading possibility
• data wrangling services
• dailies services with transcodes and online viewing distribution
• LTO 6/7/8 backups with 2 autoloaders or standalone drive for onset or nearset, expandable upon project needs
• dailies distribution with Signiant Mediashuttle from facility
• monitor calibration with Jeti spectometer
Sound & Picture Post
Supervision
• Workflow Design & Supervision
• Post Production Supervision
• Post Production Coordination
Sound Post-Production
• ADR
• remote ADR via Source Connect
• sound design
• dialogue editing
• sound fx
• noise reduction & restoration
• foley
• Dolby 2.0/5.1/7.1/Atmos mixingWe are the only studio in Romania that offers Dolby Atmos mixing for cinema
• remote mixing via Source Connect
• film scoring
• music/score recording
• music supervision
• sound supervision
• licensing services
Offline Editing
• senior editor
• assistant editor
• remote editing
• edit bay rental
Color Grading
• SDR & HDR Color Grading on Baselight SystemsFilmLight develops unique colour grading systems, image processing applications and workflow tools that are transforming film and video post-production.
• remote grading
Online editing / QC & deliverables
• online editing & project conforming
• digital dailies
• DCP encoding and delivery
• IMF encoding and delivery
• standard deliverables (prores file, DCDM, DSM, DPM or any required formats)
• subtitles & localisation
• mastering & QC
AI, VFX & Other
AI Pre-Production
• ideation
• ai-assisted scriptwriting
• concept art
AI Production
• text-to-video generation
• video generation
• artificial voiceover
AI Post-Production
• generative AI editing
• ai color-correction
• generated visual effects
VFX
• creative Development
• art Direction
• 3D Modelling
• previz & Layout
• on-Set Supervision
• digital matte painting
• 2D & 3D Animation and MoCap - compositing
• 2D Illustration
Film Scanning
• Film scanning on Northlight 4KThe Northlight scanner is the benchmark for quality, adopted across the industry and in use at all premier studios across the globe. pin registered film scanner
• Digital restoration & dust-bust
Archiving
• long term storage and archival in two different physical locations
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)
Miguel Llanso
FILMOGRAPHY
Avanpost’s extensive filmography exemplifies our position as a trailblazer We mix cutting-edge technology, a collaborative creative vision, and a strong track record of innovative, high-quality projects to set new industry standards. in the film production and post-production landscape, with a proven record of delivering high-impact, narrative-driven content.
Traffic (2024) feature film
co-production, post-production
Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in a big Flemish city. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.
The Yellow Tie (2024) feature film
co-production, post-production
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache. From his childhood in Romania, to his exile in pursuit of a career in music, his struggle for survival in wartime Germany and his rise, fall and rise again, in an unimaginable life journey.
Subteran (2024) Netflix Original
post-production
A mother working in IT who ends up fighting undercover against the Bucharest criminals who have changed her life.
Waterdrop (2024) feature film
co-production, post-production
Aida, 45, a city hall manager in a small Albanian town by Lake Ohrid, is forced to face her own complicity when her son Mark, 15, is involved in a rape scandal that could send him to jail.
Waterdrop (2024)
Robert Budina
Robert Budina
Klaus & Barroso (2024) feature film
co-production, post-production
A crook bartender urgently needs to pay off a debt. He persuades his brother, a fiery bouncer, to arrange a bachelor party together, without the knowledge of the owners of the club where he works.
Nasty (2024) documentary
post-production
1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase’s career: winning US Open, reaching Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals. It portrays his victories, controversies, rebellious persona challenging tennis
norms, and his influence as a tennis rebel icon.
Alumbramiento (2024) feature film
co-production, post-production
Set in 1982, looks deep into two recent episodes of Spanish history: the imprisonment of pregnant women, and the kidnapping of newborns, in a context of social and political change.
Where Elephants Go (2024) feature film
post-production
Nine-year-old Leni and childlike intellectual Marcel, who is 23, kick around Bucharest in a joyous adventure, unruffled by the dark sides of life.
Ext. Masina. Noapte (2024) feature film
co-production, post-production
A bloody thriller (sort of Agatha Christie does The Twilight Zone) morphs into its own “making of”, a really talky one - a conversation about film, about fear, about fiction. The type of film where
the less you know, the better.
The Invasion (2024) documentary
post-production
Sergei Loznitsa questions the consequences of the invasion of one country by another.
My Late Summer (2024) feature film
post-production
Arriving on an island, a young woman embarks on a journey to discover her identity and place in the world. Her experiences on the island unravel a tapestry of past events, bringing hidden truths to light. As the situation grows increasingly complex, she is driven towards a profound reconciliation and acceptance, starting with herself and gradually encompassing those around her.
We Were The Lucky Ones (2023) Disney series
post-production
A Jewish family is determined to survive and reunite after being separated in World War II.
Spy/Master (2023) HBO Original
post-production
Victor Godeanu, Ceausescu’s right-hand man, has a secret. He is also a KGB agent and must escape before he is discovered, so he will seize a valuable diplomatic opportunity.
Spy/Master (2023)
Cristopher Smith
Cristopher Smith
Something Is About To Happen (2023) feature film
co-production, post-production
A woman’s life takes a definitive turn the day that she loses her job as a computer programmer.
Boss (2023) feature film
post-production
Bogdan takes part in an armed robbery with three men he barely knows. While fleeing the crime scene, he accidentally runs over a witness who ultimately dies. This will disrupt the very core of his moral being.
Boss (2023)
Bogdan Mirica
Taximetriști (2023) feature film
co-production, post-production
We follow two taxi drivers who, in a single night, cross paths with all kinds of clients who end up having an impact on their lives, for better but also for worse.
Do Not Expect Too Much... (2023) feature film
post-production
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
Familiar (2023) feature film
post-production
Follows director Dragos Binder as he explores the dark secrets of his family and attempts to use his filmmaking to overcome the trauma he experienced as a child.
Panopticon (2023) feature film
post-production
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Between Revolutions (2023) documentary
post-production
Two women separated by political revolutions find connection through letters, defying distance and turmoil.
Between Revolutions (2023)
Vlad Petri
The Perfect Escape (2023) feature film
co-production, post-production
Follows four couples as they rediscover their relationship in a secluded mountain cabin.
Fairy Garden (2023) feature film
co-production, post-production
On the outskirts of Budapest, in the heart of the woods, hides a ramshackle little hut. Inside, two social outcasts have formed the unlikeliest of bonds: Fanni, a 19 year-old transgender teenager, and Laci, a 60 year-old homeless man. Together, they form a cantankerous, convivial, makeshift family life, supporting each other as father and daughter through hardship.
Wednesday (2022) Netflix Original
post-production
Follows Wednesday Addams’ years as a student, when she attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a killing spree, and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents.
Wednesday (2022)
Tim Burton
Ruxx (2022) HBO series
post-production
A look at the young generation of a country caught between the past and the future. It is centered on the titular character.
One True Singer (2022) HBO reality
post-production
One True Singer is the musical show which promises to launch the next big singer in Romania. It’s the show that takes you behind the scenes of the music industry and reveals what it takes to
reach the top.
Day of the Tiger (2022) feature film
co-production, post-production
While going through an emotional breakdown, Vera, a small town zoo veterinarian, causes the escape of a tiger.
The Kiev Trial (2022) documentary
post-production
The war crimes trial in Kiev, Ukraine in January 1946, following the massacre.
R.M.N. (2022) feature film
post-production
A non-judgmental analysis of the driving forces of human behavior when confronted with the unknown, of the way we perceive the other and on how we relate to an unsettling future.
R.M.N (2022)
Cristian Mungiu
The Land You Belong (2022) feature film
post-production
A lost girl who tries to discover who she really is and solve her mental issues.
Fools (2022) feature film
post-production
A film about the difficult relationship between a mother and son, and how their choices have dramatic consequences.
Blue Moon (2022) feature film
co-production, post-production
The film follows the psychological journey of a young woman to her dehumanizing process. Irina struggles to achieve higher education and escape the violence of her dysfunctional family. An ambiguous sexual experience with an artist will spur her intention to fight the violence in her family. Blue Moon is a psychological drama that involves family, sex and a little bit of blood.
The Natural History Of Destruction (2022) documentary
post-production
Based on the book by German writer W.G. Sebald, examines the perception and processing of the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population in European post-war literature.
Anhell 69 (2022) feature film
post-production
A funeral car cruises the streets of Medellin, while a young director tells the story of his past in this violent and conservative city. He remembers the pre-production of his first film, a Class-B movie with ghosts.
Anhell69 (2022)
Theo Montoya
Broadway (2022) feature film
co-production, post-production
A story about dancers and thieves in modern-day Athens.
Men Of Deeds (2022) feature film
co-production, post-production
Ilie enjoys the easy life of a village policeman. His passivity during a series of violent events soon turns him into an accomplice to murder. Tension accumulates in the village, forcing Ilie to make a final decision.
Alis (2022) documentary
co-production, post-production
Ten young women reside in a home for girls from the streets of Bogotá. They talk about their roommate, Alis. She is a collective invention and at the same time a protected space that makes it possible to express painful truths.
Imaginary Youth (2022) feature film
co-production, post-production
Three adolescents - a rapper, an environmental activist, and a teen actress - take the decision to leave their families and their country behind and emigrate after high school, for a better shot at fulfilling their dreams. Will they go through with their plan?
To The North (2022) feature film
post-production
A Christian Filipino sailor decides to hide a Romanian stowaway onboard a transatlantic ship owing to his sense of duty to help a fellow man. But he isn’t prepared for the cat-and-mouse game that ensues following this gesture of goodwill.
To The North (2022)
Mihai Mincan
Humble (2021) feature film
post-production
Vassil is a documentary film director who has not achieved the success he dreams of. He puts all his energy filming the broken relationship between a monk and his mother. Meanwhile Vassil’s wife and their 14-year-old daughter take second place in his life. The director learns that the monk is in a psychiatry while his mother will have to undergo a cancer surgery. To bring them together to forgive each other is Vassil’s long awaited finale of his film. He faces a dilemma to shoot “life as it is” or show human compassion and empathy.
Fishbone (2021) feature film
co-production, post-production
9 situations where people are pushed to react, but they are confused, scared or too busy. 9 viewpoint towards an absurd world, in which people are like a dead dolphin - and nobody knows how to take care of it.
Mr. Landsbergis (2021) documentary
post-production
Documentary about Lithuania in the years 1989 to 1991, when the Baltic country broke away from the Soviet Union.
The Father Who Moved Mountains (2021) feature film
post-production
Mircea Jianu, a retired Intelligence officer in his 50s, finds out that his son from a previous marriage went missing in the mountains. After several days of unavailing searches, Mircea decides to put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad. Gradually, the tormented father who refuses to accept the obvious becomes entangled in a frantic battle with man and nature.
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) feature film
post-production
Exploring the relationship between the individual and society by showing what happens when a young secondary-school teacher posts an amateur porn clip on a website. The consequences of this decision will affect her life deeply.
Balaur (2021) feature film
post-production
Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.
Balaur (2021)
Octav Chelaru
La Civil (2021) feature film
post-production
La Civil tells the story of Cielo, a mother in search of her daughter, abducted by a criminal cartel in Northern Mexico. As the authorities fail to offer support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and turns from housewife into avenging activist. The story was inspired by true events.
Nowhere Special (2021) feature film
co-production, post-production
John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, devotes his life to raising his 4-year-old son Michael, as the child’s mother left them immediately after his birth. Their life is a simple one, made up of universal daily rituals, a life of complete dedication, and innocent love that reveals the strength of their relationship. But John only has a few months to live. Since he has no family to turn to, he will spend the days left to him looking for a new and perfect one to adopt Michael, trying to protect his child from the terrible reality.
Wild Romania (2021) documentary
co-production, post-production
WILD ROMANIA is the most complex documentary dedicated to nature in our country and features unique, brand new film footage, from spectacular and hard-to-reach regions, as well as unique stories about the country”s biodiversity. Started in 2018 by Dan Dinu and Cosmin Dumitrache, the documentary reveals the nature of our country in a way never that”s never been done before and represents the pinnacle of more than 10 years of work done by the two creators and their team.
When Night Meets Dawn (2021) short
post-production
In the suffocating summer air, a teenage boy goes looking for his new friend on the hot streets of an eerie city. The world feels unsettled, anchorless. Bodies and flesh,whether human or belonging to the natural world, bring a sense of comfort to the boy”s confused anxiety. When the blue of the night slowly lowers its veil, the birdsong echoes something deep inside. The visceral journey intensifies.
Întregalde (2021) feature film
post-production
Three friends are on a year-end humanitarian trip. Traveling in a jeep on the unpaved mountain roads of the village of Întregalde, they meet a lonely old man who they try to help by getting him to the sawmill where he claims to work. When their car gets stuck in a ditch in the woods, the sawmill turns out to be abandoned and they have to spend the night with the senile old man, their ideas of empathy and generosity begin to be questioned.
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) feature film
co-production, post-production
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is on the horizon for her family and people - rescue or death?
Quo Vadis, Aida (2020)
Jasmila Zbanic
Tuff Money (2020) HBO Original
post-production
Two municipal workers, depressed in a bar, spontaneously joke about being able to rob a bank van, in order to sound big. Trouble starts when their plan is taken at face value by a mobster, who threatens them to actually do the heist.
Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (2020) feature film
co-production, post-production
The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA’s operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it’s too late.
Legacy (2020) feature film
post-production
A policeman investigates the disappearance of a pianist and soon uncovers the troubling details of the man”s life and relationships.
Blood Machines (2019) feature film
co-production, post-production
Inspired by the spirit of the 80”s films and music, BLOOD MACHINES is a scifi-horror mind melter told in three chapters, scored by the synthwave artist Carpenter Brut.
Profu’ (2019) ProTV series
post-production
A dramatic comedy, which focuses on Mihai Iacob, a character played by Andi Vasluianu, who returns to teaching after a period of absence, and struggles to bring young people to study.
Umbre (2019) HBO Original
post-production
Umbre follows Relu, an enforcer for a small-time mob boss, as he struggles to keep his family in the dark about his job. The secrets Relu keeps become increasingly oppressive and the lies begin to surface.
Umbre (2019)
Bogdan Mirica
Miami Bici (2019) feature film
post-production
Two bumbling buddies flee the Romanian winter to work in Miami Beach but find trouble in paradise when their new top boss turns out to be a crime lord.
Collective (2019) documentary
post-production
Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.
Balanța - 4K Restoration (2019) feature film
post-production
A description of Romania before Ceausescu”s downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and lives with her father. After he died, she leaves Bucarest, and ends up in a little town, where she meets Mitica, a surgeon, another herself, laughing of everything.
We Are Little Zombies (2019) feature film
post-production
Four Japanese orphans form a rock band.
Zoo (2019) feature film
post-production
Karen and John are verging on divorce, but when the world is hit by a pandemic that turns people into the living dead, the couple locks themselves in their apartment - waiting for rescue, they reclaim their lost love.
Zoo (2019)
Antonio Tublen
State Funeral (2019) documentary
post-production
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle.
Donbass (2018) feature film
post-production
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth and hatred is declared to be love. A journey through the Donbass unfolds as a chain of curious adventures, where the grotesque and drama are as intertwined as life and death. This is not a tale of one region, one country or one political system. It is about a world, lost in post-truth and fake identities. It is about each and every one of us.
Donbass (2028)
Serghei Loznitsa
Un Pas În Urma Serafimilor (2018) feature film
post-production
Gabriel is a 15-year-old teenager who wants to become a priest and is admitted to an Orthodox seminary. He starts by trying to fit in, but eventually realises the system is completely corrupted and abusive, and before long he and three other classmates are labelled rebel students by the school board. Caught up in the fight for power between an incorruptible, but abusive priest and a cunning, crooked and unscrupulous secular teacher, the students learn that lying, stealing, cheating, gambling and betraying are skills they have to master in order to survive in the seminary. Who will graduate and become a priest? What kind of priests will they make after spending several years in this system?
Hackerville (2018) HBO Original
post-production
Following a cyber attack on a German bank, an investigator teams with local authorities and an elite hacker to track the suspects.
Oh, Ramona (2018) feature film
post-production
Awkward 16-year-old Andrei is infatuated with his alluring but aloof schoolmate Ramona -- until he meets stunning hotel clerk Anemona while on vacation.
The Nun (2018) feature film
post-production
When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.
The Nun (2018)
Corin Hardy
Ana, Mon Amour (2017) feature film
post-production
Romanian filmmaker Calin Peter Netzer (Child’s Pose) won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for this captivating study of a passionate romance that is threatened by both the spectre of mental illness, and the sufferer’s subsequent journey from dependence to self-reliance.
Shelter Among The Clouds (2017) feature film
post-production
Besnik is a lonely shepherd and devoted Muslim, haunted by unfulfilled love. He is the son of a Catholic mother and formerly Communist father whom he takes care of in an Albanian village in the mountains. Up here, Christians and Muslims have found a way to co-exist peacefully. Even after the discovery that the old mosque used to be a church and that the building was actually shared by the two religions in the past, the calm of daily life can be preserved - with Besnik”s help. After the death of his father, however, drastic changes threaten Besnik”s multi-faith family and the shepherd is forced to seek his own path.
Charleston (2017) feature film
post-production
A couple of weeks after his wife Ioana dies in a car crash, drunk and alone on the night he turns 42, Alexandru receives a visit. Sebastian, a shy, younger man, has been Ioana's lover for the past five months. Sebastian has an outrageous request: he wants Alexandru to help him overcome the despair caused by Ioana's death...
Valea Mută (2016) HBO Original
post-production
“Valea Mutã” is a gripping, fast-paced thriller seen through the eyes of two teenagers whose clandestine meeting unravels into a nightmare.
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With a dedicated team of seasoned artists, technicians, and supervisors, we transform ideas into breathtaking cinematic masterpieces. Avanpost is where innovation and artistry We push technical and creative boundaries to create groundbreaking films and commercials converge, making us the go-to partner for filmmakers seeking the very best in film production throughout the region.
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Alex Bogdan, Laura Marin, Bogdan Diaconu, Alin Baban, Claudia Dediu, Edward Petrea
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George Bucur
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Claudiu Doaga, Catalin Miloiu, Andreea Nedelcu, Robert Bitay, Valerian Bulgariu, Florin Tabacaru, Dragos Stirbu, Marian Balan, Victor Miu, Stefan Radu, Alexandru Stoica, Andrei Armaselu, Bogdan Geambasu
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