Transilvania Film Festival Beats Back Gray Skies for Upbeat Opener - Variety

Transilvania Film Festival Beats Back Gray Skies for Upbeat Opener Variety

CLUJ, Romania – The storm clouds that had spent the better part of the afternoon trundling across Transilvania couldn’t be kept at bay Friday night, though several hundred festival-goers – armed with umbrellas and ponchos – arrived for the opening of the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival hoping for the best. “People are ready to go on. It’s unbelievable,” said TIFF artistic director Mihai Chirilov, as crowds continued to tramp down the soggy red carpet spread across Piata Unirii (Union Square). “They’re unstoppable.” Nearby veteran director and festival founder Tudor Giurgiu worked a crowd s...