Cinelab Romania

     After 10 years of experience as a film editor at the Buftea Studios, in 1995 Cornelia Popa undertook the steps of opening a laboratory for film processing in Bucharest. Her determination and her good qualities as a manager convinced the Kodak representatives to open their first picture film processing laboratory in the world in 1999. Before that year, the film prints of the productions shot in Romania would be taken to other countries to be verified and processed. The high quality equipment and the prompt services quickly brought many clients, Romanian or foreign companies.
     In order to keep up with the time, Cornelia Popa created a team of people with a large experience gained in Buftea and of young people with digital processing abilities. Thus, professions connected to the film processing were kept, such as: negative cutter, calibration operator, quality control operator. An important asset was the non-stop program of the lab – it ensures a 24/7 service. The managers of the other Kodak laboratories that are set in other parts of the world were trained here.
     When Kodak decided to give up their processing labs, Cornelia Popa found a Spanish investor, Rodrigo Ruiz Tarazona Diaz, with whom she continued the activity within the Cinelab International Group. Even if the team of Cinelab Romania is quite small, all the people are trained for more operations and their professionalism speaks for itself.