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Ana Agopian
Ana Agopian graduated The National University of Film and Theater "I.L.Caragiale", Audio-Visual Communication Department (screenwriting and film critics). During university she was granted one year scholarship at the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin.
During University she worked as a scriptwriter for the short films Hi Cristina! Bye Cristina and Friday around eleven which were shown at national and international film festivals (such as Cleremont Ferrand, Cottbus, Oberhausen, Munchen, Ludwigsburg, TIFF etc.). After she graduated she co-written (with Oana Rasuceanu and Iulia Rugina) two other short films (Stuck on Christmas and Tabasco) and a feature film (Breaking News). With the script for the feature film she participated in the script development workshop Sources 2, in Graz; and won, with the same project, a script development scholarship at the Nipkow Programme in Berlin. In August 2009 she was part of Sarajevo Talent Campus, workshop organized by Sarajevo Film Festival.
At the moment she collaborates with Media Pro Pictures as a script writer for which she signed the screenplay for three film series and two TV movies.
Iulia Rugina
Iulia was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1982. She studied film directing for four years at the National University of Theatre and Film “i.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest. During school she has directed 4 short films and worked on over 20 others. Her films (Friday around eleven and Hi Cristina! Bye Cristina!!) have been screened in Cleremont Ferrand, Cottbus, Oberhausen, Munchen, Ludwigsburg, Tribeca, Singapore. She been activelly involved in scriptwriting, in the same team of three that kept going until now. She co-wrote the script of all her films, including the first feature script Breaking News.
In 2009 Iulia wrote and directed, with the support of the Sarajevo Film Festival, the short film Museum of Broken Relationships.
She is now pursuing a master in film directing at the the same univeristy, where, together with her co-writers, she is also teaching basic screenwriting and directing to first year students.
