Animafilm is a Romania

Romania

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n animation studio

Animation studio

An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals of the media produced...

, located in central Bucharest

Bucharest

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The studio was created in 1964 from the animation division of Studioul Cinematografic Bucureşti (Bucharest Cinematographic Studios). Ion Popescu-Gopo

Ion Popescu-Gopo

Ion Popescu-Gopo was a Romanian graphic artist and animator, but also writer, movie director and actor born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a prominent personality in the Romanian cinematography and the founder of the modern Romanian cartoon school. He was, together with Liviu Ciulei and Mirel...

 was the best-known graphic artist and animator working at Animafilm.

Initially a state-owned studio, after the fall of the communist regime in 1989, Animafilm became a private company, as Animafilm S.A. The current director is Monica Hodor. In 2004, the company made a profit of 248 million lei

Romanian leu

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, on revenue of 1.1 billion lei.

External links

"Tristeţea omuleţului lui Gopo", Săptămâna financiară, June 20, 2005