Romanian director Alexander Nanau joined Deadline’s Contenders International awards-season event to talk about his searing documentary Collective, one of the year’s most acclaimed films as winner of the European Film Award for documentary.
It is also Romania’s official entry to the International Feature Film Oscar race, as well as a strong contender in the Documentary Feature competition too.The film from Magnolia Pictures and Participant is powerful stuff, focusing on journalists investigating the Romanian Health Care System which, in the aftermath of a tragic nightclub fire, reveals shocking truths about it.Nanau gets remarkable cooperation for his own investigative docu, and that may be because the timing was just right in the country.
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