Anca Puiu was born in 1971 in Bucharest, Romania. After graduating "Gh. Asachi" University in Iasi, she worked as country manager for a company manufacturing sportswear for the Premier League in Britain. In 2004, together with her husband, director Cristi Puiu, they founded the Mandragora film production company. Their first project, “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu” was internationally widely acclaimed and is considered the film that started the “Romanian New Wave” in cinema. They continued with short and feature films such as: Megatron (Marian Crișan, “Palme d’Or” Festival de Cannes 2008), “Aurora” (Cristi Puiu, Festival de Cannes 2010), “Morgen (Marian Crișan, Locarno 2010)”, “Viktoria” (Maya Vitkova, Sundance 2014), “Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter” (Ana Lungu, IFF Rotterdam 2015). Amon