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Mona Nicoara

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Mona Nicoara was born in Communist Romania and, until 1989, dedicated her early years to becoming a poet in a small, largely underground community of young writers who did not abide by the creative conventions of the Ceausescu era. She started working in film in 1997 as an Associate Producer for Children Underground (2001), which received the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. Her directorial debut, Our School (2011), premiered in the US at the Tribeca Film Festival, went on to over 60 festivals worldwide, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best US Feature at SilverDocs, and was nominated for Best Eastern European Documentary at the Silver Eye Awards and for Best Romanian Documentary at the Gopo Awards. The film was released theatrically in Romania, Switzerland, and the US. Since 2014, she has been programming the One World Romania and fARAD film festivals, and since 2017 has been teaching film at NYU Tisch and Rutgers University.

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Consulting Producer:
2014  Toto and his Sisters

Director:
2013  Our School
2014  Toto and his Sisters
2019  The Distance Between Me and Me

Editorial Consultant:
2013  Our School
2014  Toto and his Sisters
2019  Collective
2019  The Distance Between Me and Me

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