Ileana Stanculescu studied at the film academy Konrad Wolf in Potsdam Babelsberg (Germany). She graduated with the documentary: “Podul peste Tisa”, which won among other prizes the first Appearance Award at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam and was selected by major festivals. Later she directed the documentary “Satul sosetelor”, received the Co-production award of the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung and was nominated for the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA.

Ileana works for the “NOOSFERA Foundation” since 2011 and coordinates workshops such as “Docstories Black Sea” (co-funded by the Media Mundus Program of the EU), in partnership with IDFAcademy. Other workshops coordinated are: CinéDOC-School workshop for Georgian teachers who screen and discuss documentaries in class, CinéDOC Summer School (summer school for filmmakers from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia), New Talents Caucasus training and pitching sessions, Civil Pitch (matchmaking workshop for documentary filmmakers from Georgia and NGO representatives), Film Mentoring Programme (online long-term training session for documentary filmmakers from the South Caucasus and Central Asia). Ileana Stanculescu is also coordinator of the festival CinéDOC-Tbilisi since 2013.