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Anca Puiu


  • Producer
  • Born: 30.10.1971 in Bucharest

“She could have remained an efficient textile engineer after 1995 when she graduated the faculty in Iasi (successfully working in the field till 2008). She also could have stayed in the cinema lights only as the wife of a film director that opened the doors to the New Wave in Romanian cinema with his film Marfa şi banii / Stuff and Dough, Cristi Puiu, the boy with whom she grew up 

in the same neighborhood, the man with whom she has an outstanding family , the man she admires unconditionally. She could have been satisfied only with the mother part, happy and accomplished with Smaranda, Ileana and Zoe, her 3 daughters. But fate had in stock for her yet another path on which she stepped with courage and confidence, an activity that does not hinder the other two - that of film producer at Mandragora, their film company, established together with Alex Munteanu and Cristi Puiu in 2004. After making her debut in  this trade with the short Joi / Thursday by Hadrian Marcu, there followed a short with a huge success, Megatron, by Marian Crişan, prized with the Palme d’Or in Cannes 2008, where, another moment of pride for Anca and Cristi, the film was introduced by the poster made by their daughter, Ileana.
A good incentive for the young producer to venture further on the long feature territory. She started with Francesca (2009), Bobby Păunescu’s debut as a film director, Aurora (2010), the long waited for return of Cristi Puiu after five years of “silence”, Morgen (2011) , the confirmation of Marian Crisan’s talent “ (Cristina Corciovescu, Aperitiff, 2011)

Trivia

  • Married to film director Cristi Puiu, they have 3 daughters: Smaranda,.Ileana, Zoe
  • In 2004 she establishes, together with her husband, the film production company, Mandragora.