Podcasts

The MoldArte Podcast series was recorded in the studio offered by Radio Chisinau.
Moderator: Tania Insurățelu; Sound engineer Corneliu Bucătaru; DOP Vadim Septichin; Translation by Ozana Oancea

Our guests are Dumitru Grosei – director, screenwriter and producer from the Republic of Moldova, and Arcadia Plăcintă – producer from the Republic of Moldova, with studies in Art History. 

The episode talks about cinematography and addresses the challenges of Moldovan artists in this field, both in terms of funding and legislation. The guests are Dumitru Grosei, film director and screenwriter, president-founder of the Association of Independent Filmmakers from Moldova – Alternative Cinema and Arcadie Plăcintă, producer, founder of the Moldox Documentary Film Festival.

The episode is dedicated to the art of theatre and has as guests two well-known personalities: Luminița Țîcu, director with an important activity in the independent area, and Mihai Fusu, actor, playwright, director and teacher, laureate of numerous national awards. Together they initiated the genre of documentary theater in Moldova and founded the Coliseum Center and the theater laboratory Foosbook.

The episode is dedicated to literature and has as guests Augustina Visan, the author of the volume “Fă ceva tata” for which she received the “Revelation of the Year” award offered by Irina Nechit and Dumitru Crudu, playwright, poet, prose writer, one of the best known and awarded writers from Moldova. They talk about the challenges that a young author has, but they also talked about Dumitru Crudu’s adventurous beginnings in writing. It was discussed about the present, but also about what should be done so that writers from the Republic of Moldova become better known, more read, more translated into other languages.

The episode is dedicated to the musical industry. Guests are Nicu Țărnă, the vocalist of the band „Gândul Mâței”, actor, TV presenter and director of „Teatrului fără nume” and Andrei Glavan, musician and producer for young groups in the Republic of Moldova. Together they discussed „weddin-bizz” and piracy, the challenges brought by the complete absence of production houses in Moldova, as well as the scarcity of paying concert audiences and promotion specialists.

This episode is an open discussion with two artists from the Republic of Moldova.
Ghenadie Popescu is a recognised unconvential artist. He had exhibitions in galleries in Chișinău, Moscova, Paris, Viena, Düsseldorf and București and developed personal projects that were very reflected in the media. Victor Frimu, a young artist with a passion for symbolistic and philosophy is an employee of the „Maria Bieșu” opera and ballet theatre. Two personalities with different experiences, educated at the same school, at the Music, Theatre and Fine Arts in Chișinău, representing two types of professional trajectories of the visual artist in the Republic of Moldova.