Dana Ranga

Birth : , Bucarest, Romania

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Ranga (born 1964 in Bucharest) is a Romanian writer and film director, currently living and working in Berlin. 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. 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) and Houston (2004). Afterwards, Dana Ranga produced the documentary Cosmonaut Polyakov (2007), part two of the space trilogy. This film won the international feature length competition at the It's All True / É Tudo Verdade documentary film festival in São Paulo, Brazil and the first prize at the Ciencia e Cinema festival in A Coruña, Spain, both in 2008. The space trilogy was completed in 2012 with "I am in Space", an essay about psychology and space flight, featuring videos filmed by French ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy.

Movies

Lo spazio di Ulisse
Lo spazio di Ulisse
Director
From romanian-born, german-based director Dana Ranga comes a movie commissioned by the cult italian TV program Fuori Orario. From archival footage of both american and russian space stations, Ranga takes us to a 5 hour journey through space, focusing on the human subject: the eternally floating astronauts, their shots of the earth's surface taken from the orbiting stations and their communications back to Earth.
I Am in Space
I Am in Space
Director
The secret of manned space flight isn't kept by the military - but by the Russian space psychologists. More than 50 astronauts and cosmonauts worldwide have been interviewed for this film in a period of 15 years.
Oh, Adam
Oh, Adam
Director
Cosmonaut Polyakov
Cosmonaut Polyakov
Director
An orphan child that dreams about the Cosmos, a doctor who donates blood for an experiment on interplanetary flights, a scientist who proves that man can fly to Mars: all these are aspects of cosmonaut nr. 66, Valery Polyakov, the man with the longest spaceflight ever. Now he speaks for the very first time about himself and life in space.
Story
Story
Cinematography
Never before has an astronaut spoken up - about the faults and tragedies of his life, about the achievements and experiences of man in space: Story Musgrave invites us on an emotional journey around a human being exiled between Earth and weightlessness. Astronaut of six space flights, poet, surgeon, chemist, computer specialist and father of six children. Did this ultimately uprooted man find his place here on Earth? He is a metaphor for search and evolution, for love and loneliness.
Story
Story
Writer
Never before has an astronaut spoken up - about the faults and tragedies of his life, about the achievements and experiences of man in space: Story Musgrave invites us on an emotional journey around a human being exiled between Earth and weightlessness. Astronaut of six space flights, poet, surgeon, chemist, computer specialist and father of six children. Did this ultimately uprooted man find his place here on Earth? He is a metaphor for search and evolution, for love and loneliness.
Story
Story
Director
Never before has an astronaut spoken up - about the faults and tragedies of his life, about the achievements and experiences of man in space: Story Musgrave invites us on an emotional journey around a human being exiled between Earth and weightlessness. Astronaut of six space flights, poet, surgeon, chemist, computer specialist and father of six children. Did this ultimately uprooted man find his place here on Earth? He is a metaphor for search and evolution, for love and loneliness.
East Side Story
East Side Story
Producer
A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.
East Side Story
East Side Story
Writer
A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.
East Side Story
East Side Story
Director
A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.