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Dana Ranga

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Birthplace:
Bucarest, Romania

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Ranga (born 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian writer and film director, currently living and working in Berlin. Initially, she studied medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. After she left for Berlin, she studied journalism, art history and film theory at the Free University Berlin. Her debut production East Side Story (1997) received an award at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film in 1998. The documentary film Story (2003), about astronaut Story Musgrave received awards at the film festivals in Marseille (2003), Leipzig (2003) and Houston (2004). Afterwards, Dana Ranga produced the documentary Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007), part two of the space trilogy. This film won the international feature length competition at the It's All True / É Tudo Verdade documentary film festival in São Paulo, Brazil and the first prize at the Ciencia e Cinema festival in A Coruña, Spain, both in 2008. The space trilogy was completed in 2012 with "I am in Space", an essay about psychology and space flight, featuring videos filmed by French ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy.

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Film Production

Cinematography:
2003  Story

Director:
1997  East Side Story
2003  Story
2007  Cosmonaut Polyakov
2009  Oh, Adam
2012  I Am in Space
2014  Lo spazio di Ulisse

Producer:
1997  East Side Story
2003  Story
2007  Cosmonaut Polyakov
2009  Oh, Adam
2012  I Am in Space
2014  Lo spazio di Ulisse

Writer:
1997  East Side Story
2003  Story
2007  Cosmonaut Polyakov
2009  Oh, Adam
2012  I Am in Space
2014  Lo spazio di Ulisse

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