As fall settles in, our thoughts switch from summer BBQs to Halloween costumes and fun-sized candy. So while you’re planning your events for the ghoulish month of October, try to schedule some time to celebrate Dracula at The Rosenbach Museum and Library.
The week-long Dracula Festival is filled with entertaining events with informative facts that you can really sink your teeth into (come on, the pun had to be used at some point). The Rosenbach has authority on the fanged man, as it is the “home of Bram Stoker’s research notes and outlines for Dracula.”
The 2008 Dracula Festival:
Book Signing The New Annotated Dracula, Reading and Book Signing with author Leslie Klinger
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 from ?6:00pm – 7:30pm
Dracula Festival Hands-On Tours: The Growth of Stoker’s Dracula
Wednesday, October 22, Saturday, October 25, and Wednesday, October 29? at 3:00pm
Signature Program: Dracula Parade Featuring Spiral Q Puppet Theater at the Rosenbach
Saturday, October 25, 2008 ?at 5:30pm
Monster’s Ink: The Bogeymen in Sendak’s Closet
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 ?at 6:00pm
For more details about the festival, visit Release The Bats on the Rosenbach’s website.
Rosenbach Museum and Library
2010 Delancey Pl, Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 732-1600
www.rosenbach.org

He said that the reasons to postpone the festival concern organizational issues and financial problems. George Scripcaru, the mayor of Brasov, announced in April 2008, that it was decided in a meeting of the Local Council, that the project for the International Film Festival DraCOOLa was approved and will be financed with 350-400.000 euros.This sum will be sustained by the local council and other sources like sponsors.
It seems that the project didn’t go as planned.

THE HISTORY of COUNT DRACULA
The festival was to be dedicated to the history of count Dracula and wanted to attract passionate tourists of the story of Dracula.

Although, in Romania, it is well-known even in preschool, that Vlad Tepes had nothing to do with the Bran Castle, that he spend very little time in the monument visited by thousands of tourists annually, the count is still haunting the surroundings of Brasov, because of the British writer Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker, based on some folkloric sources and historical dates, but also inspired by great Transylvanian stories, created a romantic and literary character, a vampire called Dracula, that is well-known around the earth, in hundreds of film and books.

Although, most of the tourists found out already that Dracula isn’t connected with the Castle Bran, and it has rustic furniture, ceramics, arms and armors, it still attracts thousands of visitors. The film festival from Brasov wanted to make known all around the world this confusion between Dracula and Castle Bran, and wanted to benefit now that it is known as a national brand.

Source: BrasovulTau.ro, translation dracula-souvenirs.com team

Tudor Giurgiu declared for Mediafax that the new festival will be organized together with Amprenta Advertising from Cluj, an agency that he has collaborated with, in order to organize the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF). The director said that more details about this festival will be revealed at the end of January 2008.
With a budget of 500.000 euros, Mr. Cristian Grindea from Amprenta Advertising will be in charge of organizing the event. The promoting campaign of the festival will include: the TV, the press, the radio, indoor, outdoor and also will be online said for Mediafax Cristian Grindea.

The organizers intend to include”Dracula Dreaming” festival in the tour with the same genre festivals like “Horror fest” and “Dead by Dawn” from Great Britain, “The Fantastic Film Festival” from Bruxelles and “Fantasy Film Festival” from Germany.

Tudor Giurgiu set the base ground for the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF), which was held for the first time at Cluj. It was the most important film festival from Romania and it gained so much popularity that in the last edition 160 films from 39 countries have participated.
Author: Ruxandra Belgun, Source: BrasovulTau.ro, translation dracula-souvenirs.com team, 20-12-2007

UPDATE, 15.04.2008

The film festival Dracula Dreamin or Dracoola International Film Festival?
A few weeks ago, we have announced that in Brasov would be held at the end of august the film festival Dracula Dreamin. These days a new information appeared: at the beginning of august will be another film festival, in Brasov, called “Dracoola International Film Festival“

Are we talinkg about the same festival or there are just two diferent festivals? We have to wait and see which one will be held in august: the first or the second one which seems more pompous and in the trends ?
The Dracoola International Film Festival“ project is a result of the partnership between the “Asociation for the promoting the romanian film”, the “Amprenta Advertising”company, and the Brasov city council that offered it’s full support for this first edition of the film festival.
During the 4th -10th  of august 2008, the old center of Brasov, specially the Square area is going to be dedicated to the festival.
We will come back with more information about it. Stay tunned.

The source: iubescbrasovul.ro