Profile
Roxana has studied Film Directing at the National University of Theatre and Cinema “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest. Her short movies have participated in numerous International Festivals and have gained several awards.
Her 2013 short PERENNIAL PLANTS won the Critics Award at the International Student Film Festival CineMaiubit in Bucharest, while BLACK FRIDAY was named Best Romanian Short at Transilvania International Film Festival in 2015.
Her graduation short, A NIGHT IN TOKORIKI, premiered in Berlinale 2016 in the Berlinale Generation Competition program where it received the special Generation 14+ jury award. A NIGHT IN TOKORIKI has more than 100 festival selections (San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, AFI among others).
Her most recent project, APPALACHIA, was selected in the Euro Connection program in Clermont-Ferrand 2020.
Some main characteristics of her style would be the minimal dialogue and the use of music and slow-motion in key scenes. – – – – – thanks to Film Freeway
Opinion
A masterful display of the silent battles of depression and how it can manifest and be interpreted by people who surround you, juxtaposed by the notion of a nostalgic home-video style cinematography. It gives one the idea that just as film and TV provides illusion through a colourful lens or mise-en-scene, it can be used to juxtapose the reality of lives through internal monologue/voiceover. Personal take but the narrator’s voice evoked the iconography of a silent offscreen dialogue through passing montages (as seen in When Harry Meets Sally or You’ve Got Mail). – – – – – Joanna Pinto
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