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The cultural infrastructure of Bucharest is limited to the city center, meaning that two thirds of the population who live in neighborhoods have limited cultural access. In the backdrop of cultural scarcity, a sense of identity is lacking, as does the quality of living, while the inhabitants of Bucharest aren’t even aware of their own history. The opportunity consists of rebalancing the cultural scene, by affirming neighborhood identity and by socially and culturally involving the locals. All of this is possible by developing local cultural operators and cultural products that are meaningful to their communities and their history. By tackling the history of habitation in ‘block-type’ buildings in 10 Bucharest neighborhoods, through a series of multidisciplinary cultural products and community events, the intervention is necessary, and corresponds to the priorities laid out in Bucharest’s Cultural Strategy 2016-2026. The target group consists of Bucharest’s inhabitants, including those living in the 10 neighborhoods with block-type buildings, as well as 10.000 inhabitants of the block-type buildings themselves (indirect beneficiaries), while the direct beneficiaries are: 6 film professionals; 1100 attendees at cultural events; 5000 history books readers; 200 documentary film online viewers. Their needs gravitate around the lack of a sense of cultural local identity, the lack of connection to the community and their own history, the lack of belonging and civic engagement. Our objective is to culturally activate the neighborhoods in Bucharest through multidisciplinary cultural products focused on the history of micro-communities associated with block-type buildings and through cultural and bilateral cooperation. The role of the bilateral partnership will focus on the post production of the documentaries created as part of the project by raising image quality through applied activities, and raising the skill level of the post production team.