- Belgium
Teodora Ana MIHAI
- Belgium
Teodora Ana Mihai was born in Bucharest, under Ceausescu’s regime. In ‘89 she joined her parents who had fled to Belgium the year before. She discovered her love for cinema as a high school student in San Francisco, California and went on to study film at Sarah Lawrence College, in upstate New York. Upon returning to Belgium, she started working in the industry as a script supervisor and assistant director. However, after several years on diverse film sets, Teodora decided to dedicate herself to her own film projects. After directing her debut Waiting for August, awarded with over 10 international prizes (amongst which Best Feature Documentary at Karlovy Vary Int’l FF and Hot Docs) and later on nominated for the European Film Awards, Teodora currently develops two projects: the feature documentary Alice and the fiction feature La Civil. For the latter, set in Mexico, she collaborates on the script with Mexican awarded novelist Habacuc Antonio De Rosario within Torino Film Lab’s ScriptLab program. Teodora’s films take on the challenge of striking a balance between social relevance and audio-visual poetry.