Conferences
Cătălin Ștefănescu: Exclamation Mark!
On Sunday, 17 April 2016, as of 11.00 a.m., at the Black Box Hall of the National Theatre of Bucharest, Mr. Cătălin Ștefănescu shall hold the conference on the topic Exclamation Mark!
About the Conference
“A journey through various ways of understanding the idea of culture, from linguistic paradigms to ideological manipulations, from Eskimos and pygmies to the party secretary and Old Vasile from Vadul Moților to Ridley Scott.”
About Cătălin Ştefănescu
A UNITER member, Cătălin Ştefănescu has been, ever since 1999, producer and host of the 100% Guaranteed programme from TVR 1 (Romanian National Television). Cătălin Ştefănescu has received countless prizes for the coverages and documentary films produced under this label: from 2003 to 2006 – APTR Prize for cultural show and cultural magazine, in 2002 – Award for Best Romanian Documentary Film – Penitentiary (presented, among others, at the International Festival of Anthropological Film - Sibiu). Still in 2002, he received the Great TELEVEST Award (in Timişoara) – for The Director... and the CNA Prize for best local television show - 100% Guaranteed. In 2010, he was awarded the Flacăra Prize for Journalism. 100% Guaranteed represents one of the longest-lived and appreciated cultural broadcasts in Romania. The list of guests invited over time on the set of 100% Guaranteedcomprises world-class personalities like the famous actress Vanessa Redgrave, the soprano Sarah Brightman, the writer-philospher Pascal Bruckner or director Andrei Şerban.
Born on 29 December 1968 in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Cătălin Ştefănescu has graduated in 1995 from the Faculty of Letters of the Babeş Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, whereas the Bachelor’s thesis he defended was about the Ancient Greek drama.
From 1991 to 1998, he published a series of articles in Contemporanul, Steaua, Cotidianul (the supplement Litere, arte, idei ), Canava Odeon, Direcţia 9. He was head of the broadcast and image department at TVR Cluj, then secretary general editor at TVR Cluj, but also producer and host of the show Saturday Meeting (TVR 1 and TVR2).
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
