Nae Caranfil

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Nae Caranfil (Nicolae Caranfil) (born 1960, Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.

Nae Caranfil studied at the Film and Theatre Institute (UNATC) in Bucharest, which he graduated in 1984. He is the son of important Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil. In the beginning of his career he directed only short films: Venice in September (1983), Thirty Years of Insomnia (1984) and Backstage (1988). Caranfil made his feature film debut with E Pericoloso Sporgersi (1993) and continued with road movie comedy Asfalt tango (1996) (starring Charlotte Rampling) and with Dolce far niente (1998). His latest movie, Filantropica (2002), was a critical success and attracted lots of popularity for Caranfil. Some consider Nae Caranfil to be the best Romanian director of the 1990s.

Nae Caranfil wrote the screenplay for all his movies and worked on the music for the first two of them (E Pericoloso Sporgersi(1993) and Asfalt-tango(1996)).

Nae Caranfil is currently also a professor at the Film and Theatre Institute (UNATC) in Bucharest.

[edit] Awards

• 2003 Würzburg International Filmweekend - Audience Award for Filantropica
• 2002 Mons International Festival of Love Films - Young European Jury Award for Filantropica
• 2002 Paris Film Festival - Public Prize for Filantropica
• 2002 Wiesbaden goEast - Special Jury Award for Filantropica
• 1998 Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film - Golden Bayard Award for Best Screenplay for Dolce far niente
• 1993 Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival - Critics Award for E Pericoloso Sporgersi

[edit] Filmography as director

• 2006 The rest is silence
• 2002 Filantropica
• 1998 Dolce far niente
• 1996 Asfalt tango
• 1993 E Pericoloso Sporgersi

[edit] External links

• Nae Caranfil at the Internet Movie Database
• Romanian National Cinematography Center page for Nae Caranfil