CARINA ROSANNA TAUTU is an award winning director and screenwriter who’s work bridges the two cultures she knows intimately – Eastern European and American. Her explorations of female existence in both fiction films and documentaries have depth and wicked humor, presenting life as stunningly beautiful with a touch of detached, existential dread. She worked in Europe, Africa, North and South America. A founder of Silk String Pictures - www.silkstringpictures.com - she believes in "cinema without borders".

Carina has a previous MSc in Neurobiology from University of Bucharest and earned an MDR from Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution/Pepperdine Law in 2019. She works as a dispute resolution system design specialist combining her filmmaking expertise with her science/law trainings - www.eqforhighiq.com.