ASTRA FILM STUDIO

VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT (CNM ASTRA SIBIU) 

ASTRA FILM Studio produces documentaries, videos, and photograph exhibitions based on material from its own archives. The Studio manages a visual data base of the recordings made during research, and owns a documentary film collection of more than 3,500 titles. The collection of documentary and anthropological films is unique in the Central&Eastern European region, and it fills a gap in the local and national media offer. It consists of the best productions of the past ten years in the field of the documentary and anthropological film from all over the world, as well as of a number of classics of the documentary film. The films in the collection are valuable research material for academics and students in social sciences and documentary filmmaking, as well as training material for university and high-school students. There is also a significant segment of general public, who is interested in the good-quality documentary film. 

 

ASTRA FILM FOUNDATION

WINNER OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY AWARD FOR THE BEST CULTURAL PROJECT IN ROMANIA (2007 and 2002)

The ASTRA FILM FOUNDATION aims to promote, study, research and initiatives in the field of visual anthropology, and to encourage the use of anthropological documentary film as a means for cultural and cross-cultural understanding. Our mission is to provide a support-base and resource center for filmmakers, and for scholars and students of anthropology and social sciences, and for anyone interested in the use of visual images to understand, describe, analyze, and interpret culture and society. The ASTRA FILM FOUNDATION produces its own research-based documentary films and photographs; promotes the Romanian documentary films; manages an archive of documentary films open for research and public use; organizes research seminars, workshops and training programs; publishes papers and scholarly works.