As of September 2016, Double 4 Studios & its sister company Voxx Studios have entered into a partnership agreement for distribution, localization and co-production of content!
PRODUCTIONS
Who I Am Not (2023)
Available on PBS app in the United States
As a result of Double 4 Studios’ partnership with Voxx Studios, the two companies are co-producing several projects including the feature-length documentary “Who I Am Not”, written and directed by Tunde Skovran. The documentary deals with the complexity of gender definition and its effects on society at-large. Principal Photography was done in South Africa. The film had its world premiere at Thessaloniki Documentary International Festival, where it won three awards, including The Silver Alexander. The North American premiere took place at SXSW. The film was selected in 80 international film festivals and won 22 awards. In the US, POV on PBS selected it for its 2024 slate. For more information, go to www.whoiamnotdocumentary.com
The film was produced by Double 4 Studios Romania, in co-production with Canada, and with the financial support of Double 4 Studios (US), Voxx Studios, and The Breathe Project.
Puzzle for a blind man(2013) aka PUZZLE
Available on the Sundance Channel (Spain, France) and Netflix (Europe).
In the post-revolutionary Romania values have shifted, dramatically changing many individual destinies. A repressed 51 years old man realizes that his life had become one of misery and loneliness. Everybody uses him. After becoming friends with a blind writer he had to evict from his house, he finds the inspiration and courage he needs to break all the rules he had been forced to abide by and to reconnect with life's joy and excitement. He falls passionately in love with a much younger woman, for whom he is ready to sacrifice everything he has built until then: marriage, job, and social position, only to discover that he was used again.
So, What’s Freedom? (2020) aka ȘI ASTUNCI, CE E LIBERTATEA?
When one gives up fear, he/she finds freedom, even when in confinement. Of a poetic nature, the movie, inspired by true facts, is a story of love and search for freedom against the background of the 1951 Communist ordered deportation of over 40000 people to “Romanian Siberia.”
Emil Bazan, a young history teacher is deported together with his young wife, Turica. He’s forced into a different perspective of perceiving history and everyday life. His fear of the system he once had embraced becomes his worst enemy. Gaining power over it, allows him to enjoy a sense of freedom never experienced before. Thus, his release 5 years later feels to him like a new deportation.
LITTLE SNAIL (2015) short aka: CSIGA BIGA
Ivan, a 5 years old boy living in an indifferent family makes a delightful discovery: the beautiful young woman next door is pregnant. Is the baby she is carrying just as lonely as he is? He sets off for a complex adventure to save his potential, future new friend from dreadful solitude.
Productions in Development
“Under the Iron Curtain”, a series about the life of a detective, and the cases he needs to solve when communist Romania transitions into capitalism through turbulent events. Production is scheduled to commence in 2026 in the United States and Romania. Based on a collection of best-selling novels.