A former film critic, Andrei Cretulescu was born in 1974, produced for HBO Romania the first season of In Deriva (remake of In Treatment) and nine original documentaries. In 2011 he launched Kinosseur Productions. After producing the feature film Killing Time, Andrei wrote and directed Bad Penny and Kowalski, the former winning the Best Short award in Zagreb IFF, 2014 and the Best Director and Best Actor awards in Lille European FF, 2015. His third short, Ramona, won the Canal+ Award at La Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes IFF and the Best Short Award (ex-aequo) in Transilvania IFF. Andrei has just finished his fourth short film, Seven Months Later, and he is currently (2015) in preproduction with his first feature, Charlton Heston, a project already presented at Connecting Cottbus, New Cinema Network - Rome and Transilvania Pitch Stop.