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Title: LIVE A TRADITION IN MARAMUREŞ, ROMANIA

Reference number: 12502

Date: 2014

Director: d. Yushin Toda

Production company: Japan Desk Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: unknown

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.13 mins

Description: Documentary about a visit to the Maramures area in Northern Romania, where local musician Ioan Pop explains the traditional wooden architecture of the region and plays some local traditional music.

Credits: p. Fumi Nakabachi and Yushin Toda, Japan Desk Scotland
comm. w. Yushin Toda
ph. Fumi Nakabachi
ed. adviser Hajime Kobayashi, (Colin Brierley)
ed. Yushin Toda
cast Ioan Pop, Ion Borodi and Jim Brown
m. Ioan Pop si Grupul Iza
interpretation and translation Jim Brown
translation adviser Evelina Pavel

Shotlist: Filmmaker's synopsis:

When Japan Desk Scotland’s first Fukushima documentary was shown in Bucharest in April 2013, they were guided by a friend of theirs, Jim Brown, to Bucharest Botanic Gardens, where they became interested in a wooden church and a wooden carved gate. In September of that year, Jim and his partner, Dana, drove them from Bucharest to Maramureş, in which these wooden traditions originate.

In Maramureş, Jim introduced to them Ioan Pop, a local musician. Ioan talked about living in a traditional timber house, having a wooden carved gate, and singing traditional folk songs with lots of improvisation.

The interview was carried out in September 2013.