Dana Ranga

Dana Ranga (born 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian writer and film director, currently living and working in Berlin.

Life

Dana Ranga was born in 1964 in Bucharest. Initially, she studied medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. After she left for Berlin, she studied journalism, art history and film theory at the Free University Berlin. She now works in Berlin as a film producer, author and poet. Her debut production East Side Story (1997) received an award at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film in 1998. The documentary film Story (2003), about astronaut Story Musgrave received awards at the film festivals in Marseille (2003), Leipzig (2003) und Houston (2004). Afterwards, Dana Ranga produced the documentary Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007).

Filmography

• 1997: East Side Story (director, script)
• 2003: Story (director, script)
• 2007: Cosmonaut Polyakov (director, script, cut)
• 2009: Oh, Adam (director, script, cut)

External links

• Dana Ranga at the Internet Movie Database
• Article in Filmmagazin Manifest
• Article in Die Zeit
• Dana Ranga and Good Idea Films

Persondata
Name	Ranga, Dana
Alternative names
Short description	rumänische Schriftstellerin und Filmemacherin
Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	Bukarest
Date of death
Place of death