The Producer in the Time of Online Platforms

Authors

  • Daniel Mitulescu UNATC ”I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest, Romania Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37130/yzhz6t06

Keywords:

Hollywood, producer, streaming platform, festival, Hegel’s thesis-antithesis- synthesis theory

Abstract

In this article, I will explore the knowledge process in the film industry, analyzing how Hegel’s philosophical thesis-antithesis-synthesis model applies to Hollywood producers, auteur cinema, and modern creative producers. I will use the Hegelian model to show how ideas evolve and develop through conflict and reconciliation, and how applying it to the film industry can provide a better understanding of how filmmakers develop their ideas and concepts, as well as how these evolve over time.

Author Biography

  • Daniel Mitulescu, UNATC ”I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest, Romania

    Daniel Constantin Mitulescu has earned an MBA in Audiovisual in Madrid and a master’s degree in Anthropology at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He initially worked for Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 before becoming a production assistant on his brother Cătălin Mitulescu’s short Traffic (2004) awarded with the Palme d’Or in Cannes. Cătălin Mitulescu’s feature debut The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006), which premiered in the official selection in Cannes, was Daniel’s first feature film as producer. He then went on to produce Florin Şerban’s If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010) which won the Silver Bear and Alfred Bauer Award in the Berlinale, and his brother Cătălin Mitulescu’s second feature Loverboy (2011) which screened in Official Selection at Cannes. He worked as a producer on several other feature and short films and documentaries. Most of them are international co-productions that won international awards in Berlin, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, etc. Besides producing, he has also done film distribution, releasing Romanian and independent arthouse films. He organizes the Metropolis Open-Air Cinema Caravan that travels to Romania’s largest cities, and he is also the director of the first Romanian International Children Film Festival – KINOdiseea. He teaches at UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” (the National University of Theater and Film in Bucharest) and is member of ACE (Ateliers de Cinema European) and the European Film Academy.

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Published

2022-12-12

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2022): I AM ANOTHER YOU. Mediating Intimacy and Body Politics / MOLIÈRE: 400th Anniversary of his Birth

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Mitulescu, D. (2022). The Producer in the Time of Online Platforms. CONCEPT, 25(2), 232-244. https://doi.org/10.37130/yzhz6t06