The festival has had, over the years, a series of programs dedicated both to emerging documentary filmmakers and educational programs for high school and college students.
The local community of creators has grown along with the festival, and it has hopefully contributed to their artistic development and professionalization.
In 2023 and 2024, we organized the Work-in-Progress workshop, supported by Dana Bunescu and Tue Steen Müller, a one-on-one consultancy program for Romanian documentaries in final production or post-production. A number of projects have benefited from the extensive expertise of the two mentors, and this year we present three of them:
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"CALIU: Nothing else, what else can I do?", by Simona Constantin - in the framework of the High School Days, WiP 2023 participant
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"Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends", by Ioana Grigore - in the Friends of OWR section, participant in WiP 2023
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"An Almost Perfect Family", by Tudor Platon - in the section Friends of OWR, participant in WiP 2023.
In the same section, we will also have a special screening of "TATA", by Lina Vdoviy and Radu Ciorniciuc, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival; their previous film, "Acasă, My Home", opened the 2020 edition of the festival.
