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Natalia Curea

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    5′ 5″ (1.65 m)

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  • Born and raised in Moldova, Natalia Curea is an award-winning film director and screenwriter. Her recent film Jump (2021) received critical and audience success on the international film festival circuit, winning multiple awards including the Audience Choice Award at the Lift-Off Film Festival in Berlin.

    Studied Film and Video Production at City College of New York and graduated magna cum laude. Her style as a writer-director lies in character-driven, dramatic storytelling that explores the complexity of human nature, often featuring protagonists with inner conflicts. Curea presently has feature film and TV scripts in development.
    - IMDb mini biography by: Media Solutions

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  • In 2019 she became a naturalized United States citizen.
  • Holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the City College of New York.
  • A recurring theme in most of her films is the fragility of human existence.
  • At age 18, she won an acting scholarship for the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chisinau. She rejected the scholarship, and pursued a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Public Relations instead. After college graduation in Moldova, she decides to leave for New York, overstaying her visa.
  • Her favorite films are Splendor in the Grass (1961), The Piano (1993), In the Mood for Love (2000), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963).

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