Biography

Luiza Parvu is a filmmaker, visual artist, and educator based in Tempe, AZ. She is a member of the European Film Academy. She holds an MFA in Film Production from New York University's Tisch School of The Arts, New York, USA. She is an experienced media maker with professional working knowledge of all areas of production and post-production. Her directing and editing work covers a variety of genres, in both fiction and creative non-fiction: documentary, multimedia installation, immersive media, and commercial.

The award winning films she has directed or edited so far have been recognized in film festivals and events worldwide such as Karlovy Vary IFF, Sundance FF, BFI London, Busan IFF, Transilvania IFF, Tribeca FF or Abu Dhabi IFF. In 2012, she was a nominee in the Rising Star category at the GOPO Romanian Film Industry Awards for directing her short film Draft 7.