The film "Pitesti Experiment" is selected at "Bogocine", the largest film festival in Latin America, compared to the Cannes International Film Festival in Europe. This is the first Romanian feature film to be selected in the festival's competition in the entire history of cinema.

Victoria Baltag is the first Romanian director selected at the Bogota International Film Festival, the feature-film "Pitesti Experiment" being the first Romanian film to participate in this festival in the "feature-length" category of the festival's official competition. This year, the festival is in its 40th edition and for the "feature film" category it selected only 10 films from all over the world, from over 15,000 films sent to the selection.

"The Pitesti Experiment" highlights the true story that happened between 1948-1952 in Romania, known as the "re-education phenomenon" or the "Pitesti experiment". It is the first artistic film made by the director Victoria Baltag with 12 years of voluntary work of over 120 actors and 800 people who supported the film through services. The feature film is also the last film in which the great Romanian actor, Ion Caramitru, a supporter of this benevolent project, appears.           

This November, the film is also selected at the European Film Festival in Lima, Peru, the European Film Festival in Calgary, Canada, the Manizales International Film Festival and other festivals around the world. The feature represents Romania at these international events. Director Victoria Baltag is also invited to hold several master class courses related to independent cinema in the universities  in Colombia and Peru.

Victoria Baltag, who also directed the documentary-feature ‘’Titus Munteanu-  A life in Television’’, is a director from Romania. She holds a degree in Sociology and another one in Journalism at the University of Bucharest (2008). In 2010, she obtained a master's degree in Management  and International Marketing at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest, and in 2011 she completed a master's degree in Film, History and Television at the University of Birmingham. She is currently a PhD student at the School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen's University Belfast, under the coordination of Dr. Aimee Mollaghan.

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