Director & screenwriter

bianca lucia rusBianca is a Romanian filmmaker who has been making short movies since 1997 back in Romania, where she also worked in television and produced music and corporate videos.

She has won several national film awards for her productions, which typically focus on strong characters who become better versions of themselves following life challenges.

She has written, directed and produced all her movies and finished a MA course at Middlesex University, London, where she graduated with a short movie, The Party, a scene out of her first feature movie, currently in development. The script was selected as a finalist at the UK Online Pitchbox 2022 as well as Top 30 scripts at the Feature Film Screenwriting Contest 2021 organized by the Filmarket Hub.

Currently studying a PHD in Film at Greenwich University, in production with a feature documentary on therapy shot in Spain and in development with a short folk horror story ( as a producer) in Reading, UK.

Member of FFC ( Female Film Club) based in London

Looking for producers interested in crime thrillers and co-writers for a TV sci-fi series, in development.

Strong background in Advertising & Digital Marketing for more than 14 years.

Filmography
2025 - What is IFS Therapy (feature documentary) - post-production

2024 - Open Sesame (short drama)

2022 - Bexleyheath Night Markets (reportage)

2019 - Diary of a sinner (short experimental)

2019 - Dancing with Hannah Chandler (2 music videos)

2019 - Fashion show (commercial & teaser)

2019 - The Party (short fiction)

2018 - We need to talk about Eva (short fiction)

2017 - We change (corporate)

2016 - Just a girl (music video)

2015 - Friends (short fiction)

2010 - Looking for Magdalena (short fiction)

2009 - One day (short fiction)

2007 - Dance invitation (short dance reportage)

2007 - Flying on thoughts (short reportage)

2008 - Burn (commercial)

2006 - Red apples (short fiction)

2006 - Bucharest in 13 shots (short fiction)

2002 - The date (short fiction)

2001 - The shadow (short fiction)

2000 - Why did you go, why would you have left (short fiction)

1999 - Sighisoara- between art and non-art (short documentary)

1999 - Cluj Cabbage (short comedy)

1998 - Roman lesson (short reportage)

1997 - Exhibition (short reportage)

Experience
2025 - The Roots within (short) – Producer – in development

2019 - Reeled ( music video) – 1st AD

2019 - Hope (short) – Production Runner

2019 - Breach (short) – Production Runner

2019 - Mockingbird (short) – Production Runner & BTS photographer

2008 - Bunraku ( feature movie) – Production Assistant on set

2007 - Complications ( TV pilot episode) – 1st AD