Production is currently underway on the set of ‘Wonderland’, a new Irish-produced documentary about director Irina Maldea’s experiences of growing up in the communist film industry of Romania. The project was granted funding by the most recent Eurimages grant round.
‘Wonderland’ started shooting in April of this year. The cameras will roll for six months in locations such as Romania, Korea, Austria and Ireland and it is expected that the film will receive a theatrical release here in spring 2011. The doc is, as previously mentioned, is directed by Irina Maldea (Shamrock and Swastika).
The documentary is funded by IFB, BAI, Arts Council of Ireland, TG4, Media, Eurimages, Finland’s YLE and Austria’s Cine Styria. It is produced by Brendan Culleton (Diarmuid and Strongbow) for Akajava Films and Barabara Caspar (Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker?) for Austria’s Fragile Films. The director of photography is Dan Curean and the documentary will feature dramatic reconstructions, interviews and archive footage.