Projects in Development

 

Ileana, feature-length, Strada Film, granted development money by the National Centre of Cinematography, Romania

Scrit&Pitch, Torino Film Lab 2011;

Script Station, Berlinale Talent Campus 2011

Balkan Fund, Thessaloniki Film Festival 2010;

1st prize Manaki Script Program, Manaki Film Festival 2010

Script Consulting, Sarajevo Talent campus 2010

 

Marussa, feature-lengh, Kinoelectron,

Dox:Forum, CPH:DOX/ copenhagen intl. documentary film festival 

 

Ada, feature-lengh, Kinoelectron

Pack&Pitch, Sarajevo Film Festival 2010

 

 

Filmography

 

Little Red, writer/director, 13 min, 16 mm, nominated for Berlin Today Award, Berlinale 2011

 

Florentina, writer/director, 9 min, HD, fiction, with the support of the National Centre of Cinematography, Romania

 

Lubaben, writer/director, 30 min, HD, fiction / documentary , 2010,

International Film Festival Rotteram 2011

IndiLisboa, 2011

 

Mina  writer/director, 15 min, HD, fiction, 2010

International Film Festival Rotteram 2011

 

Kiteling, 3 min 2010, Winner of 1st prize Cannes a la Flip

 

A Portentous Death director, 25 min, 16mm, fiction, Screen Academy Scotland 2009

 

Down the Rabbit Hole writer/director 15 min, 35 mm, fiction, Screen Academy Scotland 2009

Singapore International Short Film Festival; Strasbourg International Film Festival, Social Communication Cinema Conference in Kolkata, India; Trailblazers Shorts, Edinburgh International Film Festival; Fresh Film Fest, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Expresion en Corto, Mexic; nominated for best short film at MIFF Award, Film Festival Internazionale di Milano; East End Film Festival, London; Naoussa International Film Festival; Festival of nations, Ebensee, Austria

 

My Undone School Films writer/director 15 min, 16mm, fiction UNATC

2008: Best Experimental Film, Hyperion Film Festival, Romania; Ex-aeqo Prize - 7ArteFest, Romania; Short film corner, Cannes; Milwaukee Short Film Festival, USA; Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania; Anonimul International Film Festival, Romania; IPIFF, Romania; Studentfest, Romania; 2007: Cinemaiubit Student Film Festival, Romania, Cinema au feminine, Paris, France

 

These Walls are made of only air writer/director Video-poem 2008: The 6th International Festival SIGNES DE NUIT, Paris, France

 

Video-poems writer/director 5 experimental short films  2008: Please, dont wash separately, Dresden, Germany

 2007: screened at Process Space Art Festival, Balchik; caviarGAUCHE, Vienna; CEE Photofund, Bratislava; Romanian Cultural Institute, Prague; Romanian Cultural Institute, Berlin; Programm Gallery, Warsaw; Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna; University of Dundee Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee; Romanian Cultural Institute, Madrid; Center for Contemporary Arts, Celje; Romanian Cultural Institute Nicolae Iorga, Venice; Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest; Romanian Cultural Institute, Paris

 

Amelia writer/director 10 min, fiction, 35 mm, b&w, UNATC 2007: Photography Prize, Special Prize of the Jury  3rd Students Film Festival EARLY BIRD, muuuvi  international short film festival, Romania

2006: Cinemaiubit Student Film Festival, Romania, Anonimul International Film Festival, Romania

 

Climbing the Giraffe writer/director 20 min, fiction 2006: PARKGEWUSEL FESTIVAL,Austria; International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers, Greece; Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania

 

Eu in EU writer/director/editor 3 min, video, 2006: contemporary art exhibition Eurobarometrul Vizual, Bucharest, Cluj, Timisoara Romania;

The Wailers writer/director 10 min, documentary, UNATC 2005: Cinemaiubit Student Film Festival, Romania

 

Evadare writer/director 5 min, fiction 16mm b&w, UNATC  2004: Cinemaiubit Student Film Festival, Romania

 

Say it all 2003: Best One Minute Film Junior, Amsterdam

 

Workshops/ Studies

 

2009  GoEast Film Festival  Project Market

2008  artists in residence program, Romanian Cultural Center, Paris

2008  ENGAGE, Media Program (Dublin, Tallinn, Edinburgh)

2007  2008 Screen Academy Scotland, MFA Advanced Film Practice

2003 2007: Film Directing at the National University of Theatre and Cinema I.L.

Caragiale, Bucharest (UNATC)

2005 Arscipro, Pratique de la realisation cinema en 35mm, Paris

 

 

Other activities:

Writer (4 published novels, journalist)

Visual Artist (group exhibitions)