Romania short film Stopover, directed by Ioana Uricaru, has been included in the competition for the Sundance International Film festival. The film has been nominated in the International Narrative Shorts category, along with other 14 films.

In total, 81 short films from 21 countries have been selected from a record 6,467 submissions. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival will run between January 20 and 30, 2011, in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.

Stopover, an Italy – Romania co-production, has director Cristian Mungiu on-board as screenwriter. The film features Romanian actress Monica Barladeanu and was produced by Mobra Films. Mobra Films has also produced Tales from the Golden Age and 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.  Ioana Uricaru is a Bucharest Film and Theater University Graduate, with a master degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Supported by the nonprofit Sundance Institute, a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, Trouble the Water and Napoleon Dynamite and, through its New Frontier initiative, has brought the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julian, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp and Matthew Barney.

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