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Cannes Award-Winning Filmmaker Marian Crisan Gearing Up to Shoot Religious Drama ‘Holy Light’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Award-winning Romanian director Marian Crișan lines up co-production deal for new drama about traditional Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony 'Holy Light.'
Marian Crișan, who won the Palme d’Or in Cannes for his short film “Megatron” as well as directing Locarno award-winning “Morgen” and HBO series “Silent Valley,” is gearing up to shoot his next project in Romania this August. Speaking with Variety out of his homeground at the Transilvania Film Festival, where he is presenting at the Pitch Stop as the producer for Ilinca Straton and Eugen Dediu’s “At King’s Gate,” Crișan explains how the drama was inspired by the titular Orthodox Holy Fire ceremony. The ritual occurs every year at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on the day before Easter and consists of the lighting of a fire — said to emerge miraculously — that is then distributed to Orthodox countries including Romania.
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