A law and journalism graduate, Oana Giurgiu directed television documentaries before working in film on Cristi Puiu’s 2005 Cannes Un Certain Regard winner, “The Death of Mr Lăzărescu” and then on Kornél Mundruczó’s 2008 Cannes FIPRESCI winner, “Delta”. She produced Tudor Giurgiu’s films: “Love Sick” (Berlinale 2006, Panorama), “Of Snails and Men” (Warsaw IFF 2012), “Why Me?” (Berlinale 2015, Panorama) and ”Libertate”(Sarajevo 2023). She also produced Peter Strickland’s “Katalin Varga” (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2009, European Discovery of the Year at European Film Academy Awards) and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada” (Cannes 2016). Oana co-produced the Hungarian titles “Eden”, dir. Agnes Kocsis (Rotterdam IFF 2020) and “Spiral” (jury award Warsaw 2020), dir. Cecilia Felmeri and the Slovak “The Servants”, dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky (Berlinale 2020, Encounters), and the Turkish director dir. Selman Nacar’s “Before Two Dawns”(San Sebastian 2021) and “Hesitation Wound” (Venice 2023), produced one of the greatest Romanian box office hit in recent years, “Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time”. She made her directorial debut with a feature-length historical documentary, “Aliyah DaDa”, screened in Astra Sibiu, Jerusalem Jewish IFF, alongside other Jewish festivals and screenings worldwide, and Best Romanian Documentary at the Gopo Awards 2015, and latest “Occasional Spies” premiered in 2021 at Transilvania IFF, won the Special Jury Mention at the Astra Film Festival Sibiu 2021 and Best Documentary Gopo 2022. Oana is also co-founder and executive director of Transilvania IFF.
Romania