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VLAD FENEŞAN is a film director based in Bucharest, Romania. Born in Cluj-Napoca, he moved to Bucharest and graduated as a film and television director in 2008. He then joined the Griffon&Swans team, doing TV commercials, music videos, fashion and experimental films. His debut film - The Blind Squad, released in 2013 won many prizes on the festival circuit, including Best European Dramatic Short - The European Film Festival, Best Foreign Language Short Film - St. Tropez Film Festival, Best of the Fest: Short Film - LA Independent Film Festival, Best Short Film - New York Ind. Film Festival, Grand Prize/Best Drama - The Rumschpringe Int’l Film Festival. His filmography includes BECOMING (2013), Staxovic (2008), Scurta revedere (2007), 2000V (2007), Pufi (2006), JumĂtate de secundĂ (2005).
DAUGHTER OF THE EARTH is an experimental fashion film that reinvents the story of the Romanian creation myth around the idea that archaic Romanian society was a maternal one. The creation process is presented as a series of rituals, borrowed from folklore or fabricated for the sake of the story, and revolves around a key/dominant dynamic element: the national costume. The film itself can be seen as ceremonial, making usage of folk tales/allegories, pagan dances, archaic motifs and digital imagery, all mashed up together in order to give rise to a new order, a new outlook to how we see and understand our origins. (Vlad Feneșan)