Tudor Giurgiu
Illustration — Tudor Giurgiu, 2016 Tudor Giurgiu (born 1972 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) is a Romanian film director. Giurgiu graduated from Bucharest Film Academy in 1995. He was President of Romanian National Television (TVR) between 2005 and 2007.
Tudor Giurgiu
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- Born
- 1972 · Cluj-Napoca.
- Nationality
- Romania
- Occupation
- film director · screenwriter · film producer · manufacturer
- Education
- I. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film
- Honours
- European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year · European Film Award for Best Short Film
- Languages
- Romanian
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Also a director of music videos and has made documentaries. Giurgiu owns Librafilm, an independent production company and is the founder and president of Romanian Film Promotion, which puts on the Transilvania International Film Festival. Love Sick, his first full-length film, was released in Romania in 2006.
Tudor Giurgiu studied at I. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film. The recorded working language is Romanian. Work by Tudor Giurgiu is recorded in the collections of Harvard Film Archive. Distinctions recorded are European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year and European Film Award for Best Short Film.
Tudor has stated that the film that influenced him the most is Knife in the Water, directed by Roman Polanski.
Filmography
• Vecini (1993) • Popcorn Story (2001) • Love Sick (2006) • Ashes and Blood (2009) - producer • Of Snails and Men (2012) • Why Me? (2015) • Parking (2019) • Libertate (2023) • Nasty (2024)
Romanian film director Tudor Giorgiu speaking at a round table on the New Romanian Cinema, at Thomson Hall on the University of Washington campus, an Ellison Center event in association with Romanian Film Festival Seattle.
Joe Mabel · Photo by Joe Mabel
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