Roxana Szel
Work in Progress Lab Guest Tutor
Roxana is an film editor and lecturer at the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L.Caragiale”, departament Multimedia. She was born in 1981 in Bucharest and studied film editing at the I.L.Caragiale University in Bucharest. In 2013 she finished her PhD in Film Editing. She edited 5 feature films and 3 documentaries and many shortfilms. The two short films, of the director Corneliu Porumboiu, she edited in the graduation year were “A Trip to the City” (Cinéfondation’s second prize in 2004), followed by “Liviu’s Dream”. She made her debut in editing feature films with “12:08 East of Bucharest” directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The film was presented in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2006 and won the Caméra d’Or. The next feature film was “Police Adjective” also directed by Corneliu Porumboiu selected for Un Certain Regard in 2009 (Jury Prize and Fipresci Prize). In 2014 she edited “The Treasure” by Corneliu Proumboiu and in 2016 Bogdan Mirica’s feature film debut, “Dogs”. Other works she’s done are 3 documentaries. The first one was “Metrobranding” directed by Ana Vlad and Adi Voicu in 2013, followed by “I am Hercules” directed by Marius Iacob in 2016 and the last was Corneliu Porumboiu’s “Infinite Football” in 2017. In 2018 year she edited “The Whistlers” by Corneliu Porumboiu released in The Official Competion in Cannes Film Festival.