Film Forum

This event is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.

Bogdan George Apetri is a Romanian filmmaker, born in 1976 in Piatra Neamt. In 2010, he directed PERIFERIC (Outbound). The film screened and won awards at prestigious festivals (Locarno, Toronto, Warsaw, Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films, Thessaloniki, Viennale). In 2019 he directed NEIDENTIFICAT (Unidentified), which won the Special Jury Prize at the Warsaw International Film Festival. MIRACLE is his third feature film. As a producer working in the US, Bogdan produced many films that won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, were selected at Cannes and other major festivals and were distributed around the world. He teaches Directing at Columbia University in New York.

Ioana Bugarin is a Romanian film and theatre actress. She was born in 1996 in Timisoara, Romania. She graduated from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts London in 2016 and the National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 2019. She has a central role in two Romanian movies which premiered in 2020. MIA MISSES HER REVENGE, by Bogdan Theodor Olteanu, was presented at Warsaw Film Festival, where it also won the Special Jury Mention. OTTO THE BARBARIAN, by Ruxandra Ghiţescu, was selected for the Sarajevo Film Festival competition. For these two performaces she received The Alex Leo Șerban Acting Award at The Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) 2021 and also was nominated for two GOPO Film Awards for these performances. She played in other several short on and feature films. She has an important role in the latest Romanian HBO Series ”Ruxx”, which will aired at the beginning of this year. She is a full-time collaborator of the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest, where she plays the lead in two shows, mostly working on Romanian contemporary plays. Last year she attended the Venice Film Festival with MIRACLE, which was presented in the Orizzonti competition with echoing international acclaim and she plays one of the leading roles in the film.

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University's School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular "Reel Pieces" series at Manhattan's 92Y, where she has interviewed almost 300 film celebrities. She is the author of the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director's work; Philip Kaufman, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, currently in its fourth printing.

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