Famous Hollywood actor, director and producer Liev Schreiber, who has 6 Golden Globe and 9 Emmy nominations, will perform live at the grand opening of the Astra Film Festival, which will take place today, October 15, starting at 6:00 p.m. at Sala Thalia in Sibiu. Schreiber co-directed the documentary “Meeting with Zelensky” with Andre Singer and will tell the audience in Sibiu about the experience of meeting and filming the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. The opening gala of the anniversary Astra Film Festival will be presented by journalist Amalia Enake, and after the screening of the documentary there will be a debate in which the winner of the “Emmy” award Andre Singer and the writer, publicist and diplomat Emil Khurezianu will take part. .

“This year we are celebrating 30 years of the Astra Film Festival. As always, we wanted to offer the public in Sibiu unforgettable moments that will remain in their memory for a long time. Such a moment from the opening of the festival, approxWhen viewers will have the opportunity to meet the two personalizedprestigious titles world cinema, alike Liev Schreiber and Andre Singer”– said Dumitru Budrala, founding director of Astra Film Festival.

Liev Schreiber rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s, starring in several mainstream films, including the horror trilogy Scream, Phantoms, Sum of All Fears, X-Men: Origins: Wolverine, “Salt”, “The Taking of Woodstock” and “The Lady”.. The Romanian audience also knows him well from the series Ray Donovan, in which he played the main role (7 episodes, between 2013-2020) and for which he was nominated for important awards such as Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics Choice Television Awards. , Sattelite Awards , Writers Guild of America.

Liev Schreiber is also a well-known supporter of Ukrainian affairs and the official ambassador of the United24 platform, launched by the President of Ukraine to collect funds from around the world.

The film “Meeting with Zelenskyi”, co-produced by Emmy Award winner Andre Singer and director and actor Liev Schreiber, tells the story of the Ukrainian president from his childhood in the USSR to his days of glory and success in show business, and then to the position of president of Ukraine. After the screening of the unfinished version of the documentary about Zelenskyi, the Astra Film Festival audience will have the opportunity to talk with director Andre Singer during a question-and-answer session.

Present in Sibiu for the festival, Andre Singer will meet the Romanian audience on Wednesday 18 October (17:00) at Sala Talia during the Masterclass: A Life in Documentary Cinema, created by BAFTA-nominated director Liviu Tipuriță. Singer will talk about anthropology, prospects for cooperation with world-famous directors and ways of approaching sensitive and symbolically important topics.

About Astra Film Festival

Astra Film Festival Sibiu, launched in 1993 as an innovative project, is one of the most important non-fiction film festivals in Europe. Under the high patronage of the President of Romania, the festival is organized by Astra Film, CNM Astra and Astra Film Foundation, the Ministry of Culture as a strategic partner, with the support of the Sibiu County Council, the National Center of Cinematography, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sibiu and the Union of Cinematographers. The event is co-financed by the Sibiu City Council through the Sibiu City Hall.

Strategic partner: Ministry of Culture

Sponsors: HBO Go, Martini, Cinelab, Materom Autohaus, Luthelo, CineGOLD, Promenada Mall, DPD Romania, Kulinarium, Sonne, Order of Romanian Architects, Sibiu-Vâlcea Branch

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