Lectures

LUCIAN GEORGESCU

A Literature (BA, MA) and Film (PhD) graduate, Lucian  started his film career as one of the first young film critics soon after the Romanian revolution then moved towards screenwriting and lately into directing and production.

His credits are including Mimi, Keep an eye on happiness, Night within a day, The Phantom Father.

Lucian has a two decades long academic contribution as Senior at the National Film & Theatre University (UNATC) in Bucharest.

He is a film trainer and visiting professor for various European academic projects and institutions, a contributor to the Journal of Screenwriting, Studies in East European Cinema magazine, a member of SRN (Screenwriters Research Network).

CLARE DOWNS

Clare has delivered numerous script-writing workshops and master classes in screenwriting. She works as a consultant, to both film funds and filmmakers throughout the world.

She started her career in London as executive co-director of the Association of Independent Producers (1978-81). Then director of International Creative Affairs for the Ladd Company/Warner Bros from 1981 to 1983. Later as director of the Council of Europe’s First Film Europe (1988), after having produced the BAFTA award winning short, The Dress (1985 ),  and the San Sebastain award winner for best screenplay, High Season (1987).

She is a founder member of the script analysis team of EAVE, there since 1989. EAVE provides training and development opportunities for producers and their teams, developing a dynamic network to facilitate co-production.  Also, joint Head of studies of AVEA, the South African Producer Training programme, and IFA-SC - The South Caucasian Film training programme. She is, since its inception, a script analyst for the International Jerusalem Film Lab.
In 2009 she wrote Taken in Twilight (Austria), an adaptation of a true story set in Burma. And in 2010, wrote Underbelly (Norway). She has co-written The Immortals (2004), Tenderboy Pie  (2010), Voliera Romance (2011) and 3,000 Nights (2012).

OANA RADU

Oana Radu is co-founder of the Romanian Film Initiative and manager of MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema festival in New York.

From 2006 to 2012 she has been a Deputy Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, participating fully to the implementation of a new vision and approach of this organization under the leadership of Corina Şuteu.

From 2000 to 2006 she was program director of the ECUMEST Association in Bucharest, coordinating a variety of cultural cooperation and cultural policy projects in Eastern Europe. She was regional coordinator for South East Europe of the Policies for Culture program, jointly developed by ECUMEST and the European Cultural Foundation in Amsterdam.

She has also contributed to a series of studies and researches in the field of cultural policy in South East Europe. She holds an MA in cultural management from the Dijon Business School, France.

ELVIRA LUPȘA

Elvira Lupsa is the development associate and community manager of the Romanian Film Initiative, producers of MAKING WAVES: New Romanian Cinema festival in New York.

She developed the first successful crowd-funding campaign for a Romanian project, the Romanian film festival in NYC, and is launching the second fundraiser on the 6th of June 2013.

She lived and studied in France and then obtained her bachelor of art history, philosophy and film in New York. She moved to Romania recently.

FRÉDÉRIC BOYER

At the beginning of the '90s, movie buff, Frédéric Boyer established Videosphere, a Parisian video store whose film collection now holds over 60.000 titles, most of them art films. Between 2003 and 2008 he was senior programmer in the Directors' Fortnight selection committee, focusing on films from the US, Great Britain, Australia, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Between 2009 and 2011 he was the Artistic Director of the aforementioned Cannes section, and then moved to New York, holding the same position within Tribeca, the festival founded by Robert De Niro.

Frédéric Boyer is also the Artistic Director of Les Arcs European Film Festival, which takes place annually in the Alps' mountain resort of Les Arcs.