A law and journalism graduate, Oana Giurgiu directed television documentaries before working in film on Cristi Puiu’s 2005 Cannes Un certain regard winner, “The Death of Mr Lăzărescu” and then on Kornél
Mundruczó’s 2008 Cannes FIPRESCI winner, “Delta”. She produced Tudor Giurgiu’s films: “Love Sick” (Berlinale 2006, Panorama), “Of Snails and Men” (Warsaw IFF), “Why Me?” (Berlinale 2015, Panorama) and
”Freedom”(in post production). She also produced Peter Strickland’s “Katalin Varga” (Berlinale 2009, Silver Bear, European Discovery of the year at European Film Academy Awards) and Cristi Puiu’s “Sieranevada”
(Cannes 2016).
Oana co-produced Hungarian titles “Eden”, dir. Agnes Kocsis (Rotterdam IFF 2020) and “Spiral” (jury award Warsaw 2020), dir. Cecilia Felmeri and the Slovak “The Servants”, dir. Ivan Ostrochovsky (Berlinale
2020, Encounters), and the Turkish “Before two Dawns”, dir. Selman Nacar (San Sebastian 2021), produced one of the greatest Romanian box office hit in recent years, “Moromete Family: On the Edge of Time” and the debut in film of the acclaimed theatre director Silviu Purcarete, ”Somewhere in Palilula”.
She made her directorial debut with a feature-length historical documentary, “Aliyah DaDa”, screened in Astra Sibiu, Jerusalem Jewish IFF, and Best Romanian Documentary at the Gopo Awards 2015, her new documentary
“Occasional Spies” premiered in 2021 at Transilvania IFF, won the Special Jury Mention at the Astra Film Festival Sibiu 2021.
Oana is Executive Director and co-founder of Transilvania International Film Festival and has an extensive experience in organizing a wide range of events, from concerts, fashion shows or alternative sports
competitions.