Conferences

Sunday, December 16, at 11.00, at the NTB's Small Hall, Paul Cozighian will hold a conference about The Unseen Face of the Romanian Revolution (... behind the cameras, the telephones with wires and the closed doors). Ticket price: 16 lei.

About the conference

With the help of his camera, Paul Cozighian, at that time a student of film directing, was one of the privileged witnesses of the first hours of the Revolution. On the evening of December 21, 1989, he filmed the clashes between the people of Bucharest and the army, which took place near the Intercontinental Hotel. One day later he entered together with the demonstrators in the building of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, where he filmed the events which occurred after Ceaușescu and his wife fled.

This was just the beginning, because through the actions taken in the coming days, Paul Cozighian was in the middle of the most important debates (which are still open for discussion) linked to the Romanian Revolution "was it one or was it not .. . ? "

About Paul Cozighian

 
Director and freelance journalist, Paul Cozighian was born in 1962 in Romania, but lives since 1990 in Paris, where he earned a master's degree in broadcasting at the Sorbonne.

For more than thirty years, working in film, television and radio, he was, one after the other, a TVR correspondent in Paris, then a wartime correspondent in Belgrade for France Télévisions, Radio France and TVR, the author of documentary films and, since 2000, a consultant in communication for large industrial groups from France.

Currently, Paul Cozighian is the correspondent in Bucharest for France TV and, since 2009, the founder and promoter of the project 2112. This project commemorates at the end of each year the memory of the martyrs from the Intercontinental Barricade from December 21, 1989, where 49 Romanians lost their lives.

Translated by: Izabella Feher