CORINA VOICU

PRODUCER, WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF “GIFT OF WINGS” MOVIE

My name is Corina Voicu. I graduated in 1989 from the Institute of Theater and Cinematographic Art in Bucharest, Romania. I worked for 20 years as an independant producer and director of television in Romania, for : TVR1 , Antena 1, Prima TV, KanalD, National TV.

I have created- together with my team- and run successful sunday programs, with decades of longevity, such as  “Sunday Family” (Sunday entertainment program), “Bravo Bravissimo” (Sunday talent show), “Danutz Ltd.” (Sunday entertaining) and countless special entertainment and music television shows for suterday nights, Christmas, Easter and New Year. My programs were awarded with APTR( Association of TVprofessionals in Romania) awards. In 2007 I made in Iraq the documentary film “Postcards from the desert”, a film that obtained two national distinctions. Since 2014 I work exclusively for documentary and presentation films, commercials and events. Although I did, between 1990 and 2015, countless reports, interviews, tourist reports and documentary films for my television shows, I never had the time to dedicate myself to an art documentary film, as I wished. The opportunity and the time, the confidence and the patience, came with the unexpected proposal of my executive producer, Anca Vlad, to make a documentary about the romanian sculptor Pavel Bucur, and especially about his major work, “Winged” from Straja.

In this way I began an adventure that would take me to the most unexpected corners of Europe, through the twisted hatch of the most unstoppable bureaucracies of the Romanian state apparatus, but also through the fabulous art world of one of the most important contemporary Romanian sculptors. : Pavel Bucur. With each of his works, with each interlocutor who told me about him, I discovered a universe that, as fabulous and magical as it was, became closer and dearer to me.     

I wish that everyone would now know this tragic story of the “Winged” on the Danube-Black Sea Canal: the highest non-figurative monument in Roamania, in Europe and in the world.

DRAGOS TEGLAS, my editor from THIS IS INSOMNIA, I know from the time we worked together videos for famous Romanian artists, movies and reports for my television shows. He was the most terrible, visionary, creative, rebellious and involved young movie editor in Romania in the 2000s. In those years I nicknamed him “Fellini”. Even after leaving to start his film production company in the UK, I followed his career and even collaborated on his multi-award winning film “13 shades of Romania”. Knowing his career path, I had no doubt that I should have worked with him for my new art film. That’s why I asked him to edit “Gift of Wings”. Not only did he respond promptly, but he worked “out of booking”, with science, with experience, with heart, with passion and with the involvement that I have found now, over the years, unaltered and mature. I knew that the images, the forms, the symbols, the metaphors, the ideas, the stories, the journalistic inquiry, will catch him irretrievably. And so it was.

Corina Voicu, author