Director’s biography :
NAE CARANFIL was born in 1960 in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated the Theater & Cinema Academy in 1984.. After directing several stage productions in Romania, he went to follow the FEMI Scriptwriting Programme in Brussels and worked with script doctor Frank Daniel on the project “THE REST IS SILENCE”. Between 1989 and 1991 he wrote several screenplays for the French production company “Compagnie des Images”. In 1992 he made his first feature film “E PERICOLOSO SPORGERSI” (”Les Dimanches de Permission”) a French-Romanian co-production shown at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes 93. The project “THE REST IS SILENCE” has already won the Grand Prize for the Best Screenplay at Paris International Film Festival in 1995 and was 2nd Prize Winner at Hartley & Merrill International Scriptwriting Competition, Los Angeles 1999.