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Elisabeta Bostan


  • Director, Screenwriter, Producer
  • Born: 01.03.1931 in Buhuşi (Bacău)
During her high school years she directs some theatre shows for the school’s stage in Piatra Neamt. She will pass her admission exam at the Institute for Theatre and Film in Bucharest with professor Victor Iliu, the reputed Romanian film director, who will become her academic. She graduates the institute, the Film Direction Dpt. , in 1954. Starting 1990  she is a University Professor and the Dean of the Film Chair at the institute. In 1996 she initiates the Student Film Festival CineMAiubit. At present she is an associate professor.Member of the Romanian Filmmakers’ Union.

 

Trivia

  • Friends and colleagues call her Zizi
  • In the 60ies she married doc film director Ion Bostan who gave her his name which she will keep even after her marriage to Dr Stoichita.
  • After closing the shootings for her film Campioana/The Champ she adopts the main part interpreter, the young girl Izabela Moldovan, who is known today as Izabela Bostan Kevorkian, university teacher at the Film and Theatre Academy and film director.
  • Her film Naica and the Fish run under the name NAICA and won dozen of important awards.