Education
Sinisa Dragin graduated from The Film and Theatre Academy, Bucharest in 1991 and has worked since then as a cameraman for Reuters.
Sinisa Dragin graduated from The Film and Theatre Academy, Bucharest in 1991 and has worked since then as a cameraman for Reuters.
Due to his immediate contact with contemporary stories, Dragin headed at first towards documentaries, filming two shorts, The Sorrow of Black Gold (1994) and Burning is the Sun over Tichilești (1995). The first feature film for television, Long journey by train, got him several screenplay awards and the main APTR award, in 1998. He went back there in 2011 with If the Seed doesn’t Die, winning the Dioraphte award, decided by the public among the movies financed by Hubert Bals Fund.
In recent years, he returned to documentary, directing along with Alina Mungiu Pippidi Where Europe Ends (2009), while a third action film, The Pharaoh (2004) was starring in the leading role one of the most impressive Romanian actors, Ștefan Iordache.
The Sorrow of Black Gold (1994, short feature, documentary) 1994, Grand Prize in Oberhausen, Germany; 1994, German Ministry of Environment’s award; 1994, Public’s special mention, Leipzig, Germany; 1998, Grand Prize, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, The Rain (1995, short feature, fiction) 1996, Directing Award, Costinești, Romania; 1997, Best short fiction feature. Ravenna, Italy (Prix Italia); 1998, APTR award for Best Short Feature. Bucharest, Romania; Long Journey by Train (1997, long feature, fiction) 1997, Grand European Award for television Screenplay. Geneva, Switzerland; 1998, Best Screenplay award, Vrnjacka Banja, Yugoslavia; 1998, Jury’s special mention, Strasbourg, France; 1998, Jury’s special mention, Dijon, France; 1999, APTR Grand Award, Bucharest, Romania; 1999, Grand award, Bar, Iugoslavia Every Day God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001, long feature, fiction) 2001, Best Director and Jury’s special award (Sylver Pyramid), Cairo, Egypt; 2002, The Tiger Award, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2002, Best Director award - UCIN, Bucharest, Romania; 2002, Best Director Award, Alba, Italia 2002, Best Film Award, Belgrad, Iugoslavia If the Seed Doesn"t Die (2010, long feature, fiction) 2011, Dioraphte award, given by the public to a movie supported by Hubert Bals Fund The Forest 2014, The Most Innovative Feature Film Award, Nyon, Switzerland 2014, European Documentary Film Network Award, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
