For more than 20 years, Cineluci Films has been dedicated to capturing under-reported stories through award-winning documentary films.
They have produced several documentary films about Romania, starting with Red Darkness Before Dawn (2003), which was broadcast on PBS and included in the Cold War archives of the Hoover Institute and the US Holocaust Memorial. Subsequent films have delved into topics as diverse as intellectual migration, substance abuse, dating violence, and a group of camera-shy nuns. Their films have been shown in festivals and broadcast all over the world.
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Between Silence and Sin explores the life and work of dissident Romanian poet Ana Blandiana, an artist threatened, censored, and banned by the Communist dictatorship. Even now, she continues to fight to reveal the truth about the past and to build a free and democratic future.
An intense biography about beliefs, censorship, and the power of writing, this film explores the contrast between the sensibility of the poet and the strength of the truth-seeker. The film interweaves never-before-seen archival materials and personal testimonials from Blandiana, punctuated with momentous poetry written by her over eight decades. The result is a showcase of the ease with which truth and propaganda blur, and the importance of art as the last bastion of a nation’s collective soul in the face of oppression.
A feature-length documentary produced 2021-2023, it is now in the midst of a film festival run throughout prior to its broadcast premiere on Televiziunea Română in March 2025.
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About the Team
Diana Nicolae, Producer & Director, is an accomplished documentary filmmaker who has produced or directed over 50 films.
A native Romanian, she began her career in media working as a TV news reporter in the post-Communist era, prior to working as a writer for BBC Radio on the first dramatic series inspired by the country in transition.
She is a Professor at Rowan University, teaching documentary studies and production courses, and serving as Executive Producer of the acclaimed RowanDOCS program. She has a BA in Journalism from Bucharest University and an MFA in Film Production from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Matt Jozwiakowski, Camera & Editor, has worked as producer, camera and editor on over a dozen acclaimed documentaries.
With more than 15 years as a marketing director for multi-national iconic brands, he has managed multi-million dollar budgets to shepherd highly creative and compelling advertising campaigns into market.
He is currently Chief Marketing Officer at Raw Generation, following a long career at consumer companies Reckitt Benckiser and McCormick & Co. He has a BA in Media Studies and BS in Marketing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and an MBA in Marketing from Wake Forest University.
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