Mona Nicoară is a

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n film director and producer. She is best known for her work on the documentary films ''Our School'' and ''The Distance Between Me and Me''.

Life and career

Mona was born in

Ineu Ineu (; ) is a town in Arad County, western Transylvania, Romania. It is situated at a distance of from the county capital, Arad, it occupies a surface at the contact point of Crișul Alb Basin and Crișurilor Plateau. Ineu is the main entranc ...

and is currently based in New York City. She graduated from the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

and

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in New York. In 2001, she started her career as an associate producer for

Children Underground ''Children Underground'' is an American 2001 documentary film directed and produced by Edet Belzberg. The film which is set in Bucharest, Romania, explores the lives of five children who are shown fighting, abusing themselves, and becoming add ...

. Her directorial debut documentary film ''Our School'' premiered in the United States at the 2011

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and won the Grand Jury Prize for the Best US Feature at

SilverDocs The AFI Docs (formerly Silverdocs) documentary film festival was an American international film festival. Created by the American Film Institute and the Discovery Channel, it was held annually in Silver Spring, Maryland and Washington, D.C., fro ...

. Her second documentary film ''The Distance Between Me and Me'' is about Romanian poet

Nina Cassian Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru; 27 November 1924, in Galați – 14 April 2014, in New York City) was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. ...

. She has taught writing and literature at

and the Cooper Union and film at NYU Tisch and

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Filmography

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nicoara, Mona Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Ineu University of Bucharest alumni Romanian film directors Romanian women film directors