- Occupation
Producer - Country
Romania
Nica Aurelian
The World According to Ion B.
Ion B. is a 62 year-old homeless man. His bed is a filthy foam mattress at the bottom of a garbage chute. Ion sorts through the daily household garbage of the block, avidly reading the books, magazines and newspapers he finds. Since the 70s he has been creating collages from them that he calls "my films".
Digging for Life
The only living inhabitants of a cemetery are the gravediggers. Be it winter, spring, summer or fall - the preoccupations of the diggers always remain the same. They dig and bury. They are immune to tears and lamentation. They seem to lack fear and sensibility. The only living "ghost" at “Doina” Cemetery is Ms. Eleonora. She's been preparing and making arrangements for her funeral for 10 years now, although she’s only 60, healthy and sober. This preoccupation is almost an obsession.
Visiting Room
"Visiting Room" follows the stories of several prisoners from different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or, like them,a person who is serving time in prison. Our intention was to talk to the people in such a special situation of being deprived of freedom, and to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and maybe their only hope for a better future.
Ion B. is a 62 year-old homeless man. His bed is a filthy foam mattress at the bottom of a garbage chute. Ion sorts through the daily household garbage of the block, avidly reading the books, magazines and newspapers he finds. Since the 70s he has been creating collages from them that he calls "my films".
Digging for Life
The only living inhabitants of a cemetery are the gravediggers. Be it winter, spring, summer or fall - the preoccupations of the diggers always remain the same. They dig and bury. They are immune to tears and lamentation. They seem to lack fear and sensibility. The only living "ghost" at “Doina” Cemetery is Ms. Eleonora. She's been preparing and making arrangements for her funeral for 10 years now, although she’s only 60, healthy and sober. This preoccupation is almost an obsession.
Visiting Room
"Visiting Room" follows the stories of several prisoners from different penitentiaries across the country, who have found their life partner during their sentence time. The one is either a person from outside, or, like them,a person who is serving time in prison. Our intention was to talk to the people in such a special situation of being deprived of freedom, and to whom love becomes a substitute for freedom and maybe their only hope for a better future.
Aurelian Nica is Original Production Manager at HBO Romania, EMMY Award winning producer and experienced (18 years record) professional communicator in the electronic media.
Awards: 2012 GOPO Award (Romanian equiv. of OSCAR), Best Documentary, "Vorbitor” / „Visiting Room"; 2011 TV MANIA (Romanian equiv. of EMMY), Best Romanian TV series, "In deriva" / "In Treatment" first season; 2011 IPIFF (Independent Producers International Film Festival), Best Documentary, „Lumea vazuta de Ion B” / "The World According To Ion B."; 2010 International EMMY Award, Arts Programming, with the documentary „Lumea vazuta de Ion B” / "The World According to Ion B."; 2010 GOPO Award, Best Documentary, „Lumea vazuta de Ion B” / "The World According To Ion B."; 2010 TV MANIA special Award for original productions; 1997 APTR (Romanian Television Professionals’ Association) Award, for a No Comment report on the Romanian-Hungarian Treaty signing ceremony.
He produced 6 HBO original documentaries, among which "The World According to Ion B.", "Merry Circus" and "The Shukar Collective Project".
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62-64 Buzesti street
3rd floor
011017 Bucharest