Romanian actress Ana Ularu, 26, who will take part in the "Shooting Stars" program - which selects the 10 most talented European actors and offers them a chance to meet directors and producers- was included in The Monitor’s recent article ‘Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Artisans’.

The article presents people’s suggestions on how to improve the world. The lineup of artists also includes Esperanza Spalding – musician, Karsten Januschke - conductor of the Frankfurt Opera, Alisa Weilerstein – cellist, Téa Obreht – novelist, Drake Doremus – film director, and Sameh Wadi – chef.

Ana Ularu is presented as a “<protest actor,> one who believes in the subversiveness of her craft” and as one of “the best Romanian actors of her generation”.

“She was excited about 2011's Arab Spring and other protest movements because she says they prove that individuals can assemble for change. While she has not yet taken to the Bucharest streets, she did star in an upcoming Italian movie, "Don't Clean Up this Blood," about police violence during the Group of Eight protests in Genoa, Italy, in 2001. It was a small part, but she says it felt like the film restored the past. <It was a phenomenal act of atonement,> she says. This is what movies at their best can do, and Ularu hopes more such acts of restitution will follow,” writes The Monitor.

Born in a family of scenographers, she won the critics' best actress award at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland in 2010 for her role in ‘Outbound’ (Periferic).

Read the entire article in The Monitor here.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(photo source: Cinemagia.ro)