BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival

COPEL MOSCU

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Born in 1953, Copel Moscu graduated from the National Institute of Drama and Film Bucharest in 1978, after which he worked at the Sahia Documentary Film Studio. One of the key authors of the Romanian Documentary New Wave from the ’80 (together with Ovidiu Bose Pastina, Tereza Barta, Laurentiu Damian, Sabina Pop) he was a pioneer in challenging the borders of cinema language in controversial subversive films which concealed, under daring conceptual and formal experimenting, a fierce criticism of the communist regime, films banned by the establishment’s censorship. Copel Moscu created over 50 short and feature films, as director and scriptwriter, for which he was awarded over 25 international and national prizes (The Evening School, On the Ozana Shore, My Beloved School, The Bronze Age, A Day Will Come, and I Chose Freedom). Presently he teaches film directing at the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest (UNATC) and video-art at Bucharest Art University (UNARTE) and is referred to as an artistic consultant for television and cinema. In 2010, consistent with his free innovative vision and educational commitment, he took the challenge to offer Romanian audiences, particularly to cinema and visual students, the first international experimental film festival in Romania.

ADINA PINTILIE

CURATOR INTERNATIONAL SELECTION

Adina Pintilie is a Romanian filmmaker, recent graduate of the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest, Directing Department. At the border between fiction, documentary and visual art, her films are very particular in the new Romanian cinema landscape, distinguishing itself through a highly personal visual style, daring experimenting in cinema language and uncompromising exploration of human psychology. In 2007, her medium length Don’t Get Me Wrong -produced by AWA, with support of ARTE France and TVR, was world premiered in Locarno - Filmmakers of the Present Competition, included in IDFA 2007-Best of Fests selection, awarded Golden Dove Best Documentary Award at DOK LEIPZIG 2007 and selected/awarded in 50 international film festivals like: Thessaloniki, Montpellier, Trieste, Namur, Munchen, Moscow, Sarajevo, Indielisboa, Warszaw, Krakow etc. Her last medium length, Oxygen, was screened in Tiger Awards Short Film Competition of Rotterdam Film Festival 2010, Buenos Aires BAFICI, Montpellier, Thessaloniki, Warszaw, Bilbao and is presently traveling around the world in film festivals and museums. Her last short, SANDPIT#186, co-directed together with George Chiper, was selected in Locarno 2008, Author’s Shorts section and won the Runner Up Award in Miami IFF and Special Mention in Trieste IFF.

MIHAI FULGER

CURATOR ROMANIAN SELECTION

Mihai Fulger is a Romanian film journalist, critic and programmer. Since 2002, he has published over 1000 articles on different film-related subjects in several cultural and general profile publications, as well as on the Internet. His first published work is a volume of interviews, The “New Wave” of Romanian Cinema (“Noul val” în cinematografia românească), awarded in 2007 with the “George Littera” prize of Romania’s Film Critics Association. He has translated and edited several film books. He is a member of the Film Critics Association within the Romanian Filmmakers Union (UCIN) and of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI). He has been a member of the FIPRESCI juries in international film festivals such as Warsaw (2008), Transilvania Cluj (2010) and Pusan (2010). He has served as selector and jury member in several Romanian film festivals and has been involved in the organization of others. In 2010 he was a member of the jury for the Romanian film industry Gopo Awards.

OZANA NICOLAU

PROJECT MANAGER

Ozana Nicolau recently graduated the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest 2010, Directing Department. One of her student projects, “My Sister and I” received at CinemaIubit International Film Festival Bucharest two awards: “Best Script” and “Best Actress” and First Prize at Future Movie IFF (2010). “Surrounded by Friends”, her graduation film, was presented at Cannes Film Festival in Short Film Corner, at Karlovy Vary Intl Film Festival and International Short Film Festival in Drama Presently, Ozana is a finalist of the HBO - TIFF DOCUMENTARY CONTEST 2011. She is also developing a feature script in the framework of EAST EUROPEAN FILM ALLIANCE (EEFA) 2011 (Sofia IFF, Molodisk IFF, Tallin BlackNights IFF Workshops) and is working on her last film, a documentary produced by ARISTOTELES WORKSHOP with the support of ARTE FRANCE.