Alina Predescu invites KineDok Romania audiences to post-screening conversational workshops

Alina Predescu has a bachelor degree in mathematics from the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Bucharest, and a bachelor degree in audiovisual communications from the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”. After she emigrates to California, Predescu teaches math at Palo Alto High School. Later, she attends the Master’s Program in Cinema Studies at San Francisco State University, followed by the Doctoral Program in Film & Media Studies at University of California at Berkeley.

As a film scholar, Predescu researches Polish documentaries made between 1960 – 1980. In her dissertation, she identifies and analyses the aesthetic and political dimensions of the relationship between the complex forms of interview and verbal address present in these films, and the historical and socio-political context of the development of the Solidarity Movement. 

At UC Berkeley, Alina Predescu teaches, for ten years, classes on writing film analysis, and courses on the history and theory of documentary film. She presents at numerous international conferences (Visible Evidence, SCMS, AICED). Her articles appear in publications such as Comparative Studies in Modernism, Pluralities - A Forum for Documentary Disruption, and The University of Bucharest Review: Literary and Cultural Studies Series.

Schedule:

October 9, 6:00 PM, Galați →

Grey Zone at the Visual Arts Museum

October 16, 7:00 PM, Cluj-Napoca →

Agent of Happiness at the "Octavian Goga" County Library

October 19, 11:30 AM, Bârlad →

Agent of Happiness at the "Vasile Pârvan" Museum

October 20, time TBC, Onești →

Agent of Happiness at the "Radu Rosetti" Municipal Library

October 29, 5:00 PM, Botoșani →

I'm Not Everything I Want to Be at Unirea Cinema

October 30, 7:00 PM, Suceava →

I'm Not Everything I Want to Be at Spațiul Cilindru / Un concept Luna Association

After each screening, Alina Predescu proposes a conversational workshop that explores the cinematic mechanisms which have triggered specific reactions during the viewing experience. The audience is invited to collaboratively decipher the techniques through which the documentary film approaches a certain subject, and to analyze how cultural, social, and political elements are addressed by the film, guiding the viewer toward forming their own perspective.