Elena Ivanca, actress of the Cluj-Napoca National Theatre, has been selected for the program "10 for FILM", organized during TIFF 2014. Between 5-7 June, within the Romanian Film Days section, the selected actors will attend workshops, will be invited to the Festival film premieres and will be introduced to special guests, journalists, and film professionals (directors, Romanian and foreign producers, casting directors and agents). The selection was made by a group of theatre and film professionals: Tudor Giurgiu, Oltiţa Cîntec, Cristina Rusiecki, Oana Stoica, Cristiana Gavrilă, Andreea Iacob and Răzvan Penescu.
Elena Ivanca acted in short films: The Soldier, directed by Tamas Áron; Feed-back, directed by Sorin Misirianţu (film presented at TIFF, 2006); Superman, Spiderman or Batman, directed by Tudor Giurgiu (2011); The Party, directed by Adrian Sitaru (2011); Garlic, directed by Lucian Alexandrescu (2012). She is actress of the Cluj Napoca National Theatre since 2000. Audiences will definitely remember her performances in Vlad Mugur’s Hamlet, in Mihai Măniuţiu’s Exactly at the same time by Gellu Naum, in Alexandru Dabija’s The Colonel Bird by Hristo Boychev, or in Radu Afrim’s A Paris Attic Overlooking Death by Matei Vişniec. This theatre season she can be seen in Tompa Gábor’s The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, in the long-lasting comical one-woman show Declaration by Tudor Muşatescu or in the one-woman show Caution, Angels Falling! based on the poetry of Sânziana and Marcel Mureşeanu.
The ten selected actors are: Alina Ilea (Timişoara National Theatre), Elena Ivanca (Cluj-Napoca National Theatre), Györgyjakab Enikő (Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Theatre), Katus Berekméri (Târgu Mureş National Theatre, „Tompa Miklós" Company), Lucia Mărneanu (independent actress, Cluj), Silvana Mihai („Godot Cafe Teatru", student at the „I.L. Caragiale" Theatre and Film University, Bucharest), Rareş-Gabriel Andrici (Metropolis Theatre and The Very Small Theatre Bucharest), Vlad Bîrzanu („Anton Pann" Theatre Râmnicu Vâlcea), Sorin Dobrin („Bulandra" Theatre and „Godot Cafe Teatru" Bucharest), Paraschiv Ioan („Radu Stanca" National Theatre Sibiu and Youth Theatre Piatra Neamţ)
