Ileana Stanculescu
CinéDOC-Tbilisi (GE)

Ileana Stanculescu has been coordinator of the international documentary film festival CinéDOC-Tbilisi since 2013. She studied at the film academy Konrad Wolf in Potsdam Babelsberg (Germany). Ileana Stanculescu graduated with the documentary: “Podul peste Tisa” (The Bridge), which won among other prizes the first Appearance Award at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam and was selected by major festivals. Later she directed the documentary “Satul sosetelor”, received the Co-production award of the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung and was nominated for the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA. Ileana produced the Georgian documentary "Akhmeteli 4", directed by Artchil Khetagouri, awarded the Prix Regards Neufs at the Visions du Réel Film Festival and winner of the main award at the Rhodes Film Festival in Greece.

Ileana works for the “NOOSFERA Foundation” since 2011 and coordinates workshops such as “Docstories Black Sea” (co-funded by the Media Mundus Program of the EU), in partnership with IDFAcademy. Other workshops coordinated are: CinéDOC-School workshops for Georgian teachers who screen and discuss documentaries in class, CinéDOC Summer School (summer school for filmmakers from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia), New Talents Caucasus training and pitching sessions, Film Mentoring and Film Support Programme (for documentary filmmakers from the South Caucasus and Central Asia).