Catalin Olaru

Film critic since 2009. Artistic Director for Taifas Balkan Film and Culture Festival (from 2023), European Film Festival (from 2022), Divan Film Festival (2017-2018) and HipTrip Travel Film Festival (2016-2018).
Film education trainer within the programs EducaTIFF (2014) and Éducation à l’image (2014 and 2015). Author of the critical study “Mircea Daneliuc – Proba de microfon” (2016). Contributor to “Film Policies. Contributions to the “Interpretation of Contemporary Romanian Cinema” (coord. Andrei Gorzo and Andrei State, Tact Publishing House, Cluj, 2014), and “Transition Period Films. Contributions to the Interpretation of Nineteenth-Century Romanian Cinema” (coord. Andrei Gorzo and Gabriela Filippi, Tact Publishing House, Cluj, 2017).