Talent Guide

Ioana Uricaru

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Episodic Lab 2023, Grants and Awards 2023

Bio

Ioana Uricaru is a Romanian-American filmmaker. She is interested in stories that reconsider the historical past while focusing on the details of lived experience. She co-directed the omnibus Tales From the Golden Age (Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival), and co-wrote and directed Lemonade (Independent Spirit Someone to Watch Award nomination and winner of several festival awards). Her work has been part of the official selections at the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, Tribeca and AFI festivals, and was supported by the Cannes Cinefondation Residency and the Sundance Institute Feature Film program. Ioana is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Current Project

Overcast

Logline

A multi-episode psycho-political thriller set in the early days of the American space program, focusing on the German scientists who worked for the Nazis before being brought to the US, and asking the question: how much of the past can we jettison along the way, as we try to attain lift-off to the future?