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Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Catalin Mitulescu, Romanian director wins at Sundance festival

Catalin Mitulescu, who also won a Palme D'or for his short film "Trafic" is one of the four winners of this year's Sundance/NHK International Awards for filmmakers.

The project with which Mitulescu won the award is entitled "How I Spent the End of the World," the story of a seven-year old boy from the suburbs of Bucharest in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

The film represents Mitulescu's debut with a full-length film, after he obtained a Palme d'Or at Cannes this year for the short film "Trafic."

He has also directed short films, "17 Minutes Late" and "Bucharest-Vienna 8:15."

The other three winners of the Sundance/NHK Awards were Rodrigo Moreno from Latin America for "The Minder," Richard Press from the U.S. for "VirTUAL Love" and Mipo Oh from Japan for "Yomomama Blues."

The four winners from Europe, Latin America, the U.S. and Japan will each receive 10,000 dollars and their films will be broadcast by the Japanese TV station NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Japan's largest broadcasting organization).

The winners were announced on Thursday during a party and the awards were presented to them on Saturday during the Sundance Festival Awards ceremony.

These annual awards, created in 1996 by the Sundance Institute and Japan Broadcasting Corporation, are a reward for innovative directors worldwide.

Posted by Iulia Rasoiu : 2/01/2005 10:46:00 am