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Founded in 2001, the INSTITUTE OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (IDF) is a non-profit training and networking centre based in Prague, Czech Republic, focused on the support of East European documentary films and their wider promotion. Our activities support filmmakers through all stages of completion – development, funding, production, post-production, and distribution. We aim at individual filmmakers (tailored consultations), groups of carefully selected professionals with projects or films (Ex Oriente Film, East European Forum, East Silver, Doc Launch, etc.), broader professional community (East Doc Platform), as well as the general public (portal www.DOKweb.net). We closely work with key int. festivals, broadcasters, distributors, sales agents, markets, or training initiatives and serve as the GATEWAY TO EAST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM.
Nicoară Mona
  • Occupation
    Producer, Director
  • Country
    USA

Nicoară Mona

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Alin, Beniamin, and Dana fighting to overcome racism as they are moved from a dead-end Roma school into a mainstream Romanian school. Alin falters in isolation, while Beniamin finds the strength to stay on in the friendship of Romanian classmates. Dana abandons school for early marriage and motherhood. Shot over four years, the film follows the workings of race relations from close up. The hand-held camera allows for the complex construction of scenes, lingering on whispered exchanges between children during class and using the evocative settings of the small Transylvanian town to convey the subtle shifts in atmosphere that come with fear of change and unresolved, long-standing racial tension.

A native of Romania, Mona Nicoara has been a human rights activist since the 1989 Revolution that overthrew the Ceausescu regime, working with groups in Central and Eastern Europe and the US. She started working in film as an Associate Producer for Edet Belzberg’s Academy Award-nominated Children Underground (2001, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival, 2001 Best Documentary Film Award from the IDA, 2001 Academy Award nomination). Mona Nicoară also works in Romania and in Central and Eastern Europe more generally to assist local groups to develop domestic and international advocacy skills and strategies.
Sat Mic Film
124 First Place
NY 11231 Brooklyn, NY
Phone:
+1 917 574 2329
Email:
mona.nicoara@gmail.com
Sundance Institute Fellow

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