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This rubric is not updated since 2011 Vanina Vignal - Direction, image and sound “Because of my films, people often think I have Romanian origins, which I haven’t. But, there have been important random connections with this country. I met a Romanian woman who had fled her totalitarian country. Among her exiled fellow countrymen, a playwright who said to me : “When this play is produced, I want you for this part.” He did not forget his promise and his play was staged at the Vasile Alexandrii Theatre of Iasi, in Romanian Moldavia. The neighbour was still the Soviet Union, and fragile Romania was shyly opening up to the world after a speedy “revolution” the country had had no time to digest - which was in fact a coup d’état. It was around this time I first came into contact with Romania, where I arrived bringing with me all the clichés the media had been feeding us since December 1989. It was a tremendous shock. The better I understood the lives of the people around me, the less I knew about this country; my convictions about Eastern Europe were steadily shattered…” Vanina Vignal was born in France. She trained as an actress at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theater and Movement, and the National Theatre Conservatory of Romania. She has worked extensively in theatre, which has given her a subtle perception of drama embedded in people’s everyday lives. She then trained as an assistant editor and assistant director, before turning to her own projects. Among other things, she speaks fluent Romanian, which gives her direct access to the people she has chosen to film. STELLA (“Prix du Patrimoine” at the International Documentary Film Festival Cinéma du Réel - 2007) is Vanina Vignal’s first film as a director. Her second film AFTER THE SILENCE what
remains unsaid does not exist ? These films are part of a trilogy about Romania. After Stella, which deals with the working class, After the silence focuses on the lower middle class and a THIRD PROJECT will be about the ruling class that was ousted in 1948. It will be shot in Bucharest with people from “impure social origins” (as they were branded by Romanian leaders from 1948 onwards), who were stigmatized by the new leaders and yet didn’t choose to go into exile but built their lives within this new reality - in the Romanian People’s Republic. Vanina Vignal also acheveid in 2008 a film for ARTE, DIMI (with the caracter that inspired the third film of her futur trilogy). It has been broadcasted on Arte France and Germany on the 10th of april 2008 (prod. Les Films d’Ici). Download dimi's pdf NB : Mélanie Braux has edited all of Vanina Vignal’s films Vanina Vignal is member of ADDOC (association des cinéastes documentaristes), of l’ACID (Association du cinéma indépendant pour sa diffusion), and SRF (Société des réalisateurs de films).
Vanina Vignal - Translation and adaptation Romanian/French Vanina Vignal has translated and adapted Stella’s, Dimi’s and After the silence’s subtitles. She will translate the other films she’ll shoot in Romania. Since Stella, she has done a number of translations for other directors. She started by translating and adapting the
subtitles for the Romanian fiction feature film 4 months,
3 weeks and 2 days, by Cristian Mungiu In 2008, she also translated Three days in Tanacu, a fiction feature length scenario, for Lucian Pintilie, but its production was interrupted. Then, Ashes and Blood (Cendres et
sang) by Fanny Ardant The happiest girl in the world,
by Radu Jude Tales of the golden age 1 + Tales of
the golden age 2 (Amintiri din epoca de aur). Scenario
and production by Cristian Mungiu Cautare - 30’- short
documentary film by Ionut Piturescu THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU In 2011, while completing the editing for her own film, Vanina Vignal translated the scenario for Cristian Mungiu’s next film... |