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Wednesday 2 May 2018

Bucharest Fashion Film Festival 2018

2018 Edition of Bucharest Fashion Film Festival took place in the weekend of 13-15 April.
The film screenings where set at Cinema Elvira Popescu and the talks where scheduled in Point.
I was invited to take part in the jury panel, together with Andy Lee, a Senior Lecturer in Film Practice and the Course Director for MA Fashion Media Production at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. The jury panel members from Romania where Alina Gavrilă-Borțu, Maurice Munteanu and Mihai Bumbu.

The charming festival was well organized and carefully curated by founders and directors Ioana Diaconu and Madalina Cozmeanu. During the festival several talks where organized, focusing on topics such as the Future of Fashion Film and 'Women's representation in media and positive body image'. In addition to short films, several fashion documentary where screened such as We Margiela, 1070:Sex, Fashion & Disco and Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist.
On Sunday evening, the festival closing ceremony concluded with announcement of two awards. “The Eye Ball” - Georgetown Opticians, by Dean Alexander won Best Film and Prosper Center // SS18 by Raya al Soulimanwon Best Romanian fashion film.



Bucharest Fashion Film Festival, the first festival in Romania at the intersection of fashion, film and branding aims to become a discussion forum on the relationship between fashion and film by means of screenings, debates and special events. Combining the best in contemporary fashion films with a selection of documentaries and cult films, the festival offers a variety of perspectives on the fashion industry, addressing issues such as diversity and sustainability in the fashion system, the role of clothing pieces in a museum collection, cultural appropriation or the status of the designer and model through the decades.

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Light festival
The Palace of the Parliament - Palatul Parlamentului
The National Museum of Contemporary Art

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