Young, motivated crew with expertise and passion for film and cinematography.
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Alexandra Axinte (born in Bucharest, Romania) is a freelance screenwriter who works for various film companies, such as HBO Central Europe, Mediapro Productions, Abis Studio and Cat Music. She also works in advertising, as a copywriter.
Alexandra has a Bachelor's Degree in Audio Visual Communication Studies, and a Master's Degree in Screenwriting, both at UNATC Film School of Bucharest. In 2012 she won the National Cinema Contest, Debutante Section, with a long-lenght script for a movie that is currently in pre-production. Another long-meter project of hers, with an independent production company, is about to be released this year. Alexandra's experience includes also TV reality shows (for which she wrote the concept and the script), music videos (script and production assistance) and brand presentation movies (script and editing supervising). She is specialized in historical screenplays with controversial themes or eras.
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Cosmin Dumitrache: camera artist. He was born in Campina, Romania. His biggest passion consists in realizing any kind of motion pictures. He started to film since high shool, using a small camera at that time. Now he has more than 10 years experience in filming and video picturing. He experienced filming and realizing feature fictions, shorts, commercials, music video clips, sportive presentations, video reportages, etc. He loves to mix filming techniques with. He runs his own film production company ( http://visualbliss.ro/).
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Marius Donici - camera operator. He graduated from the Media Pro University, the Faculty of Film and Image . Marius is a freelancer. He worked for many feature and short films such as Medalia de Onoare, Tatal Fantoma, Principii de viata, Rusty Steel, etc. He works with passion and professionalism.
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Stefan Sandulescu was born in Bucharest, Romania. After studying bassoon, piano and classical music at the "George Enescu" High School in Bucharest, he was admitted at the National University of Music in Bucharest, were he continued his bassoon studies. He played, as a part-time bassoon player, for several orchestras and chamber ensembles. He also plays several ethnic wind instruments. In 2010 he became co-founder and composer of Note in a Bottle composers group. Since 2010 he composed songs for films, commercials and video games and released an album for Wrongplanet music and BBC Radio One. In 2014 he worked as a composer for "Urbanesc" children's theatre. Stefan will compose the music for the film. He is one of the three composers of Note in a Bottle group (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Note-in-a-Bottle/206291552759981?fref=nf). They compose original music for films and video games all over the world.
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Ana Taran: photo-video assistent. Ana is a freelance photographer and screenwriter. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in European Cultural Studies at University of Bucharest and she is actually studying image and photography at Bucharest National University of Arts.
Her biggest interests include visual art, cinematography and cultural studies. Her photographs won at some national competitions (Ochiul Magic – 2014, Şapte fotografi, şapte grupe, şapte abordari diferite ale orașului-2014) and have also been included in exhibitions (Lumea/Imagine, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, 2014)
As a screenwriter, she participated with a short-meter project written in French, at Festival Les Cris du Monde in France. Her project was nominated in the international competition of the festival.
Beside her artistic projects, Ana participated as a volunteer at various cultural manifestations which include (Odessa International Film Festival – Ukraine, 2013; Bucharest Photo Week-2014)
Victoria Baltag: director/producer. Victoria was born in Botosani, Romania. She has been designing, planning, directing and producing video materials since 2009 when she started her MA in Film, History and Television. Previous to that, she has been performing as a theatre actress; during her bachelors in Sociology and Journalism she volunteered for organizing film festivals where she met and discussed with film directors and producers.
She learned about the film production and industry from directors as: Michel Hazanavicius (Oscar 2011), Abdellatif Kechiche (Palme d'Or 2013), Bertrand Tavernier (BAFTA 1990). During 2007-2014 she wrote film chronicles. After she finished her master in management, she opened her own production company. She created a strategy and started producing and directing films. In 2013 she won the popular prize award from the LSE, with one of her artistic documentaries. In 2014 she was selected for the Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival videotheque.
The Popular Prize Award at the Research Festival organized by LSE London with her documentary film "Faith and Flame" (http://www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/TLC/T... )
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The idea of producing and directing a feature film about communism in Romania came four years ago, when she (Victoria) visited, for the first time, the communist prisons were many students, intellectuals, politicians, women and aristocrats died tortured. This is a story that has to be told and people need to know what happened during that period. More information here: http://www.victoriabaltag.blogspot.ro/2012/08/the-summer-university-of-ramnicu-sarat.html - hope you do not get too scarred.
The film is a docu drama. It's a long length movie focused on a real life story .
