The third edition of the New Draft residency has come to an end

“The 3rd edition of New Draft has come to an end. We gathered hopes and emotions for the 11 projects so that we, as organizers and trainers, have a heart-wrenching package with the joy of a happy ending. The project development process continues and we are happy to have been able to offer them a safe and stable space for four months. The ideas that have settled on the page (in the form of a still developed treatment) are as strong as they are different. We hope that the pitch and the presentation brochure that went to the directors and producers will give the authors a chance for some collaborations. We know for sure that he deserves it”, declares Crăița Nanu, one of the trainers of the program.

More about New Draft participants and their projects:

Daniel Popa – basically an actor, but also experienced in theater direction, documentary film and editing, he worked on the script of his first feature film. Good luck in Calarasi! is the story of an actor who became an acting teacher out of necessity, who recovers from depression with the help of some kids from Călărași whom he trains in the art he feels he missed.

Cristian Dorobanțu – director/writer and VFX artist, developed his first feature animation project: Boboa story for the whole family about the friendship between a bear and a little girl who lives in the village next to the forest.

Second Heradirector and screenwriter who became noticed with the short film Granițe (2017), projected and awarded in festivals all over the world, worked on callher debut feature, about a mother determined to help a family in need even at the cost of destabilizing her own family.

Alin Boeru – director-screenwriter with multiple active short films and projects of mini-series or feature films in development, but also the director of the first documentary about Street Art in Romania, developed If you don’t look, it doesn’t showa story about coming to terms with and dealing with trauma.

Răzvan Oprescu / Ioana Turcan – co-directors and co-screenwriters, each with short films appreciated both in the country and abroad, have worked Ductil, the story of a girl who goes to visit her father who is away working on a construction site in France.

Rares Redan aerospace engineering graduate who refocused on screenwriting (he was also admitted to the screenwriting master’s program at UNATC during his residency), worked at HotDoga feature film about Teo, a young man who begins to ask himself big questions about life and the people behind the corporate world of Bucharest.

George ve Gänæaard and Horia Cucuta – independent co-directors and co-writers making their feature film debuts with Ranking (the grand prize in the Ro Days section at TIFF this year), they worked Ad breakthe second part of the “corporatist” trilogy they are planning.

Lavinia Braniste – writer and translator, for the second time participating in New Draft, worked on a new adaptation based on a story written by her. Sonnet for Sir Bob it’s a story about mentoring in the university environment, about how much it costs to start a career and about the transactional nature of relationships between people.

Bogdan Drumeadirector-screenwriter, graduate of master’s degree in screenwriting at UNATC, worked on the feature film Young hopesa love story, on the field and on the lawn, during a football championship comeback.

Irina Hutuscreenwriter and script editor, graduate of master’s in screenwriting at UNATC, worked at Troubledan indie about a last weekend at the beach for a group of friends who thought they were inseparable.

Stefania Mafteigraduate of directing at UNATC, currently a student of the master’s degree in media studies at Malmö University, developed XXSthe story with fantastical twists of a family dealing with the fact that their youngest daughter suffers from anorexia.

In total, this year, 50 applicants from Bucharest, Chisinau, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara and Iași registered their projects at the third edition of the residency New Draft. The New Draft trainers were Ana Agopian (screenwriter and film director, script consultant), Craita Nanu (selector, film curator and script consultant) and Andreea Cristina Borțun (film director, playwright and cultural manager).

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