CollectiveFilm

Catalin Tolontan: Not necessarily. As President Obama said to his daughters, explaining Donald Trump's victory: society is not mathematics, it is evolving in a zigzag.📷

how/have anti-corruption measures in Romania worked in general since the proposed amnesty?

Catalin Tolontan: I stole the start with the dialogue :-) The changes in the judiciary that eased the fate of those convicted of corruption did not take place due to citizen protests. This does not mean that we have in Romania an optimal justice, but rather a "precursor of justice", as they say in physics to the elements that go through a stage of formation.📷

Catalin Tolontan: There is a very interesting scene in Spotlight movie, in which the lawyer talks to the reporter. And the lawyer says: sometimes it takes an outsider to face a system. Not that we compare ourselves to the team of Spotlight journalists. But the mechanism is the same. Sometimes it is easier to be curious, lack of obligations to a new field. And there's another advantage. We were able to tell the rulers: "We don't know the complexity of health policy, please explain to us ELI5. Which simply blocks them. Because when those who govern are brought to the constitutional basis of the relationship with the citizens, any untruth it's harder to sustain. 📷

Catalin Tolontan: Certainly the Government did not start an AMA session on Reddit :-) They tried to cover everything up. But the fact that there were brave people (not us, as journalists, we just did our job), but the sources, the whistleblowers made the information come out.📷

Alexander Nanau: Also cinema offers the viewer the possibility to identify with the real life characters in a much deeper way and that makes room for understanding the life attitudes of others