IZABELA PRETASINCU

Isabela Petraşincu is a Romanian born artist who started her career as an architect (earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Architecture “Ion Mincu” Bucharest in 1956) and soon turned towards animation, when she started working for the Animafilm Studio. She signed the script, costumes, animation and direction of numerous short films and she also did character design and animation of characters for all her films. Her favourite techniques were cut-out and puppet animation and her skills, imagination and innovation brought her a number of awards in Romania and abroad, such as the Grand Prize in Tehran for “The Number Parade” (1973), the selection in competition in Toronto for “Holidays are here” (1975). Here are some of the prizes awarded in Romania: prize for ”The Acrobat Wolf” (1981) in Piatra Neamţ animation film festival, Best Photography for “Grandma’s Visit” (1982) in “Cântarea României” national contest.