Film director of Moldova gets Outstanding Award at international film festival

Chisinau, 21 December /MOLDPRES/ - A documentary film, Călărași – un ținut la poarta raiului (Calarasi – a region at the Heaven’s Gate), directed by Dumitru Grosei, has won the Outstanding Award at the Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival 2020. The event will be held in the Fukuoka city, Japan, on 23-30 December.

According to the organizers, Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival is an independent event sponsored by Meihodo, a Japanese corporation, which is set to support young people visual artists from all over the world.     

Founded in 2018, the Festival was created jointly by Meihodo Inc. and Beijing Film Academy, as a great event of selection and presentation of the best works by young artists. The event is made up of three parts: topic-related exhibition, discussions forum and the ceremony of assessment and awarding of awards. The overall fund of the festival’s awards is of about 55,000 euros.    

Film director Dumitru Grosei was born in the Marinici village, central Nisporeni district. In 1992-94, he studied at the Law Faculty of the Iasi University, Romania and in 1999 Grosei graduated from the Film Direction Faculty of the Bucharest-based University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography. In 1995, he was second unit director of the French director Bertrand Tavernier, in the Capitaine Conan movie. Presently, Dumitru Grosei lives in Chisinau and is head and founder of the Alternative Cinema Association of Independent Cinema Men of Moldova.