Short video and film contests with public voting in Romania: who runs them and how votes count
Two short video and film contests in Romania are on record: the Premiile Anului în Cultură awards in Brașov, where the public can vote online before the gala, and the Romanian Visual Awards, run by F64. RROMA Film Festival was nominated in the awards' Best Festival category, and the public vote before the gala on 3 March is the only public step the sources describe. The Visual Awards report names winners, including a Best Drone Video title, and does not mention a public vote. No published detail here gives a count method, an opening date or an eligibility rule for either contest.
Rechecked on 22 October 2026.
Public vote online: the Brașov culture awards before the gala
The Premiile Anului în Cultură awards in Brașov let the public vote online for the event before the gala on 3 March. The published details give that window and nothing about when it opened. For a reader the gala date is the one fixed point, and any online step has to be finished before it. A reader who wants to take part should first confirm that the online vote belongs to these awards, since the report is the only source naming it.
The public step is one stage of the awards process, and the published details do not say how it is weighed against any other stage. Whether the public step decides anything is not stated in the report. A reader who sees a finished category cannot tell from the report alone whether the public had the last word.
The awards carry the city's name in their title, and the report gives the public vote as a step before one fixed date: the gala on 3 March. Nothing else in the report pins the vote to a calendar, so the gala date is the only date a reader can rely on here.
- The public vote is online, according to the report on the awards.
- The gala on 3 March is the closing point the report gives.
- The awards are held in Brașov, as their title shows.
- The report does not state an opening date for the online vote.
- The public step is one stage of the awards, not the whole result.
RROMA Film Festival as a nominee in the 2025 culture awards
RROMA Film Festival was nominated in the Best Festival category of the Premiile Anului în Cultură 2025 awards in Brașov. A nomination is a place on a shortlist, and the report does not say how many festivals were nominated in that category.
The report does not link the public online step to the nominee list, so this page cannot say whether RROMA was voted on by the public. The festival's nomination and the public step are separate points in the report, and they must be read as separate facts.
A festival named as a nominee is an entry of a different kind from a single short film, so the nomination cannot be read as a film contest result. The report gives the category name and the year of the awards, and nothing about the film side of the festival.
- RROMA Film Festival is named as a nominee in the Best Festival category.
- The category sits within the 2025 Premiile Anului în Cultură awards.
- The report does not show how many nominees the category had.
- Nomination and public online step are separate points in the report.
- No winner of that category is named in the published details.
Romanian Visual Awards 2025: who ran them and what is named
The competition is organised by F64, which also announced its 2025 winners. The report names the organiser in those words, so F64 is the body this page credits for the awards.
One winner is named: Raul Jichici received the Best Drone Video title. The report gives no further category or prize, so the page cannot say how many drone films or videos entered or how many titles were awarded.
The details for these awards say nothing about a public vote. They name winners and a title, and they stop there, so this page does not place the awards among the public-vote cases. A reader who wants the judging method has to ask F64 directly.
- F64 is named as the organiser of the Romanian Visual Awards.
- The 2025 edition announced its winners in one report.
- Raul Jichici received the Best Drone Video title.
- The report names no public vote for these awards.
- Winners beyond the one named title are not in the published details.
Rules a reader can check and the ones these sources omit
The published details for the Brașov awards name a festival nomination and an online vote window, but they give no rule on who is allowed to vote. No disqualification case appears in either report.
The awards' rules belong to the awards, and any platform terms belong to the platform. The report does not name the platform used for the online vote, so no platform rule can be attached to it here.
For a reader, the usable rules are the ones an organiser publishes itself, such as a closing point or a category list. Where a source gives neither, the reader is better served by asking the organiser named for the contest than by filling the gap from memory.
- The Brașov awards name an online vote and a gala date.
- No eligibility rule is given for either contest.
- No platform for the online vote is named in the report.
- No disqualification case appears in the published details.
- The organiser named for a contest is the first contact for its rules.
Fake votes and checks: what a reader can confirm before trusting a result
The published details describe no check against fake votes for the Brașov awards or for the Romanian Visual Awards. A reader cannot confirm from these sources that any online vote was genuine, and the report gives no count to test.
What a reader can confirm is the set of visible facts: the awards' name, the city, the online vote before the gala on 3 March, and F64 as organiser of the visual awards. Each point comes from a published report, and none of them shows how the online votes were counted.
A reader who doubts a result has a clear path: ask the organiser named for the contest how it screened online votes, and check any later announcement against the dates already printed. The reports checked name no contact for either organiser, so the reader has to find one through the organiser's own channels.
- Confirm the organiser's name before trusting an online result.
- Compare any later announcement with the gala date of 3 March.
- Note that the report gives no count method for the online vote.
- Ask the named organiser how it screened online votes.
- Treat a contest with no named organiser as unverified.
Rules that apply
Il Contatore checked each fact on this page against its source before the page was written. The two sources are a Romanian news agency's report on the Premiile Anului în Cultură awards in Brașov, where RROMA Film Festival was nominated, and a Romanian business magazine's report on the 2025 Romanian Visual Awards winners, which names F64 as the organiser. The page was reviewed against those sources on 22 October 2026. Each sentence names the organiser or publisher that states it, and where a source is silent, the page says so once.
What we decline
This page names no winner of the Brașov category, because the report gives no result for it, and it does not rank the Romanian Visual Awards winners beyond the one title named. It does not say how Romanian law treats an online public vote, and no source checked here covers that question. It cannot judge whether any online vote was genuine, and it does not describe any method for changing a count. Questions about a vote's close or a winner belong with the organiser that ran the contest.
Questions and answers
In these sources, one short video and film contest in Romania uses public voting: the Best Festival category of the Premiile Anului în Cultură 2025 awards in Brașov. The public can vote online for the event before the gala on 3 March. The report gives no vote count, and it does not say whether the public step decides the category alone.
Two organisers appear in these sources: F64, which runs the Romanian Visual Awards, and the Premiile Anului în Cultură Brașov awards, named in the report as the home of the nomination. The report names no separate body behind the Brașov awards, so the awards' own name is the only label available.
The published details do not describe how votes are counted in either contest. For the Brașov awards they say only that the public can vote online before the gala on 3 March. For the Romanian Visual Awards they name winners, and they say nothing about how those winners were chosen.
The public vote for the Brașov awards runs before the gala on 3 March, and no opening date is given. The Romanian Visual Awards report announces 2025 winners and names no voting window at all. A reader who needs an opening date has to ask the organiser, because the sources do not supply one.
No eligibility rule is published for either contest in these sources. Naming a festival as a nominee says who was put forward, not who is allowed to vote, and the report gives no rule on that point. Nothing in the material names an age, residency or entry-fee condition for either contest.
The published details describe no check against fake votes for either contest, so no method is attributed to an organiser. A reader can still confirm three things before trusting a result: the organiser named, the online step and its date, and whether a later announcement matches those details. Asking the named organiser how it screens online votes is the next step the report leaves open.