Be My Cat: A Film for Anne ("hidden gem & dazzling debut" IndieWire) • Coming soon: We Put the World to Sleep • Lists: Top 250 Film Festivals & Top 150 Genre Film Festivals
Adrian Țofei (pronounced Tsofei) is an acclaimed filmmaker and actor best known for his debut horror feature Be My Cat: A Film for Anne and his upcoming apocalyptic feature We Put the World to Sleep.
IndieWire called Be My Cat: A Film for Anne “a hidden gem, a nonstop nightmare, a chilling character study and a dazzling debut”, Blumhouse said it’s a “new intelligent found footage film you need to see”, and Dread Central named it “revolutionary and dangerous”. Adrian won Best Actor at Nashville Film Festival for his performance in Be My Cat, as well as Best Film at A Night of Horror in Sydney. He directed, produced, wrote and starred in the movie, which premiered in 2015 at Fantasporto, traveled the festival circuit and received critical acclaim (currently 88% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), being ultimately released by Terror Films in 2018, and has since attracted a cult following.
Adrian Țofei has been married to actress Duru Yücel since 2017, and they have also become partners onscreen in their upcoming feature We Put the World to Sleep, an international coproduction 7 years in the making and their most ambitious project to date.
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Hamilton Film Festival
Hamilton
2022
Official Selection
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Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival
Bucharest
2022
Official Selection
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FilmQuest
Provo, Utah
2022
Official Selection
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Unnamed Footage Festival
San Francisco, CA
2022
Curated Program
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Vienna Shorts
Vienna
2022
Curated Program
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Octopus Film Festival
Gdansk
2022
Official Selection
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Nightmares Film Festival
Columbus, Ohio
2018
Official Selection
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Anchorage International Film Festival
Anchorage, Alaska
2018
Official Selection
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival
Southend-on-Sea
2017
Official Selection
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Toronto Indie Horror Fest
Toronto
2016
Best Film Nomination
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Fright Nights Vienna
Vienna
2016
Official Selection
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
TromaDance
New York City
2016
Grand Prize for Best Feature Film
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
On Vous Ment! Mockumentary Festival
Lyon
2016
Best Actor Winner
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Hamilton Film Festival
Hamilton
2016
Official Selection
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Other Worlds Austin
Austin, Texas
2016
Special Jury Prize for Best Actor
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Nashville Film Festival
Nashville, Tennessee
2016
Special Mention Winner
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Dracula Film Festival
Brasov
2015
Official Selection in Competition for Best Romanian Feature Film
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Transilvania International Film Festival
Cluj-Napoca
2015
Official Selection in Competition for Best Film
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Fantasporto
Porto
2015
Best Film Winner
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
A Night of Horror
Sydney
2015
College
Spiru Haret University of Bucharest
Theatrical Art (Acting) (master’s degree)
20102012
College
Lower Danube University of Galați
Performing Arts (Acting) (bachelor’s degree)
20072010
High School
Colegiul Tehnic Rădăuți
Electrotechnics
20022006
Birth Date
July 20, 1987
Birth City
Rădăuți, Romania
Height
197 cm / 6' 5"
Gender
Male
Ethnicity
Romanian
Eye Color
Brown
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Married To
Duru Yücel
Adrian Țofei’s filmmaking method usually consists of working for months or even years on an alternative psychological reality for the actors including himself, partially living in character, so that when they start improvising, Adrian mainly needs to record the unfolding events and to make sure the improvisation goes in the right direction. The script mostly consists of plot points. Adrian Țofei shoots tens of hours of footage guerrilla style and then watches the footage like a documentary filmmaker would and creates the details of the story in post-production during the editing process.
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne ("hidden gem & dazzling debut" IndieWire) • Coming soon: We Put the World to Sleep • Lists: Top 250 Film Festivals & Top 150 Genre Film Festivals
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