Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) 2022 is pleased to present individual submissions created under the digital initiative…
Resistance is a Girl Who changes the World
by Mihaela Drăgan (Giuvlipen)
Country: Romania | Language: Romanian | Year Of Inception: 2021
About Resistance is a Girl Who changes the World
Resistance is a Girl Who changes the World is a series of video monologues, part of the international project called Stories of Girls’ Resistance. The series tells the inspirational, unfiltered and complex stories of girls who fight back and imagine better worlds; for themselves and for the societies they live in.
The artistic coordinator of the project is the Romanian actress and playwright Mihaela Drăgan. 4 of these stories are based on or inspired by the life stories of Romanian Roma artists and activists, and all 10 video-performances feature young Roma artists from Romania.
The global project debuted in November 2020 and will encompass a total of 120 stories told in five different languages about girls from 65 countries who are changing the world. The stories will be brought to life through video art, music, theatre, poetry and other forms of creative documentation.
Artist’s pick:
Episode 2: Bety Catfur
Episode 3: Warrior Shoes
Episode 7: No Respect for My Haters
The individual projects under Resistance is a Girl Who changes the World include:
episode 1: The New Rhythm
episode 2: Bety Catfur
episode 3: Warrior Shoes
episode 4: Beyond Binary
episode 5: The Two Sides of the Condition
episode 6: The Black Chick
episode 7: No Respect for My Haters
episode 8: The Two Yanas
episode 9: #MyBodyIsMine
episode 10: Anna the Revolutionary
About Mihaela Drăgan (Giuvlipen)
Mihaela Drăgan is a multidisciplinary artist with an education in theatre who lives in Bucharest and works in several other countries. In 2014, she co-founded Giuvlipen Theatre Company, for which she is an actress and playwright, together with other Roma actresses.
Over the last years she has been working in Berlin as an actress for Maxim Gorki Theatre, Heimathafen Neukölln, Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg. She is also a trainer at Theatre of the Oppressed where she works with Roma women on their specific issues in Romania. In addition, she has worked with refugee girls in Germany as a theatre trainer.
She was one of the six finalists for The 2017 Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award from New York, an award which acknowledges the exceptional work of 20 theatre women around the world. In 2020 she was nominated again and she is the recipient of the Special Award of the League.
In 2018, Drăgan was a resident artist in Hong Kong at Para Site Contemporary Art Centre where she was developing Roma Futurism – that lies at the intersection of Roma culture with technology and witchcraft. Her performance “Roma Futurism” has been showcased in art spaces as the Museum of Contemporary Art from Belgrade; at FutuRoma – collateral exhibition at Venice Biennale; at Critical Romani Studies conference at Central European University in Budapest or Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
In the same year is acknowledged by PEN World Voices International Play Festival 2018 in New York as one of the ten most respected dramatists of the world.
In 2019 is one of the playwrights selected for the acclaimed Royal Court Theatre International Summer Residency in London where she wrote a science fiction play about a future utopian society of Roma witches who control technology and fight neo-fascist politics in Europe.
In 2021 she exhibited her first video installation at the Goethe Institut in Bucharest – ”The Future is a safe place hidden in my braids” divided into 3 short films that depict futuristic rituals for healing transgenerational trauma of Roma people and are projecting a safe future for the community.
About The Festival
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. The 7th annual festival will focus on work for the screen created by theatre artists during the Time of Corona. The festival will be held digitally from March 1st – 15th 2022.
Explore projects created under Resistance is a Girl Who changes the World from March 1st to March 15th 2022 on the Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) website.
Support this project by Mihaela Drăgan (Giuvlipen) by making a direct donation to them at the following details: Paypal: giuvlipen@gmail.com / Bank account: RO39BTRLEURCRT0318916401
Read more about Mihaela Drăgan (Giuvlipen) and Resistance is a Girl Who changes the World at (https://giuvlipen.com/en/rezistenta-este-o-fata-care-schimba-lumea/) or get in touch at giuvlipen@gmail.com / Facebook @giuvlipen / Instagram @giuvlipen
