100 Rising is a project that Max T.Ciorbă started seven years ago, when he discovered the jazz bands and the musicians from Chișinău, but also the influences of the traditional music.
The documentary made by Max T.Ciorbă and produced in the Republic of Moldova was screened at the beginning of the 2016 Docuart Film Festival. The selectionist Anca Grădinariu discovered it at the Cronograf Festival and advised the director to submit his film to the Romanian festival. 100 Rising is actually the name of a village where a big concert should have taken place, where some bands and musicians from Romania and Moldova should have played together. The event didn`t take place because of the financing and the logistics problems, but the film presents the journey, the search for the musical influences. The director invited Stefan Haslebacher (Sha), a Swiss musician that he met at the Etno Jazz Festival in Chișinău, to be the messenger, the discoverer. From bands like Zdob si Zdub and Subcarpați to the sax player Alexandru Arcuș, from forgotten popular instruments to the fiddlers from the Gorj county, the film brings the passion for music, for the Romanian tradition. Everything is seen through the eyes of a foreigner, impressed by the people he met and with whom he would make a jam session.
Max T.Ciorbă graduated film directing in Chișinău and he has been passionate about music even before he started being interested in making films. The documentary 100 Rising brings together the two arts. He came to Docuart together with his friend Alexandru Arcuș, who talked about the film at the q&a, but also played some music. 100 Rising received the 2016 Docuart award for Best Sound.
