ABOUT US
CINEPUB is a free online streaming video platform (AVOD) dedicated to the independent, less known or forgotten films, mostly Romanian.
Whether rarities, independent productions, or staples of the New Wave, cinepub.ro mission is to bring cinephiles from all over the world closer to the local cinema universe. The project was founded in 2015 by Lucian Georgescu, in partnership with Google.
Cinepub.ro is a legal archive of almost 500 movies from all genres – shorts, features, fiction, documentaries, animation, experimental – with a constant upload and weekly film premieres curated by an enthusiastic team of volunteers.
At cinepub.ro we believe in the future of free copyright and open data!
Dr. Lucian Georgescu has a Master in Litterature (Elements of pre-cinema language in the Brancoveanu’ Medieval Chronicle/Bucharest University, Faculty of Litterature/1992), a PhD in cinema (The Road Symbol In Jarmusch’ cinema/UNATC/2006) and is the Senior Professor of the Screenwriting Chair at UNATC, Bucharest. Member of UCIN (Romanian Filmmakers Association), FIPRESCI, EACWP, SRN, NAWE, guest lecturer at Ohio State University, Cincinnati University, Scuola Holden in Torino, his research focus is on the road movie genre and the critical analysis of the ”DYI method” – the three acts structure paradigm. Paper peer reviewed presentations at the SRN Conferences in Copenhagen, Brussels, Potsdam-Babelsberg, academic texts published by Intellect Books, Taylor&Francis and Edinburgh University Press.
Extra-academic activity in advertising (first Romanian creative to be appointed as the CEO of an advertising multinational in Romania – BBDO/1999; nominated at the IAA Hall of Fame in Brussels) and cultural marketing (2001, A Peace Odyssey – together with Emir Kusturica; Sibiu 2007 European Cultural Capital). Founder of the unique FVOD cinepub.ro, producer, screenwriter (Mimi, Night within a day, Keep an eye on happiness, The Phantom Father), director (Mimi, The Phantom Father).
Books: Jim on the Road, Chats about Screenplay (together with Dumitru Carabăț, UNATC Press), Creative Writing (coordinator, TBA). Editor and/or translations: Frédéric Beigbeder – 99 Francs (Pandora M), Barry Gifford – The Phantom Father: A Memoir (Balkanski Books), David Bohm – On Creativity and On Dialogue, Steven Maras – Screenplay: Theory, History and Practice (TBA).