Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

BIOGRAPHIE

TUDOR CRISTIAN JURGIU Director Born in Medias, Romania in 1984. Started studying film directing in 2006 at the National University of Drama and Film in Bucharest and graduated in the summer of 2010. He then studied an MA in the same institution and is now about to finish his PhD diploma. He has also been teaching scriptwriting and directing at UNATC for the past 6 years. During school he has directed three short films and a documentary. „Oli’s Wedding”, his third short film won a couple of awards such as: Best Fiction Short - Leeds international film festival - UK, Best short film - Anonimul International film fest - Romania, Best Romanian film - Next international film fest - Romania. His MA short film “In the fishbowl” was awarded third prize in the Cinefondation competition of the 2013 Festival de Cannes. It went on to win best short in Zagreb FF and was in competition in Uppsala FF and TelAviv student FF, among others. ‘The Japanese Dog’ is his feature debut, after a script by Ioan Antoci, awarded Krzysztof Kieslowski prize in Cannes 2009, by ScripEast Association (Poland), at the end of their scriptwriting training. The film premiered in the first feature competition of San Sebastian FF (2013). It also won the Best Film Award in Vilnius FF and the first feature award in Warsaw FF. It was in competition in New Directors New Films, New York, USA, March 2014, in Haifa International Film Festival, Israel, October 2014 and many others. Tudor is currently in production with his second feature and has just finished the short ‘Fairy Fever’.

FILMOGRAPHIE