StartupCafe.ro: Business CheckIn. “Let's see what we can change in order to be better than our version of yesterday” – the Romanians step, together with Cosmin, into the magical world of Japanese animation
Source: Cosmin Tita, co-founder of IZANAGI/ Photo: Florin Unghianu
Cosmin Tita (Photo), from Bucharest, found a rare formula of balance between culture and entrepreneurship. Film graduate at UNATC, he founded in 2019, together with Antonia Ivanciu, the festival Izanagi– Japanese Film Festival, dedicated to Japanese animation. From a single pilot screening, the project expanded to nine cities and became a landmark for anime and Japanese cinema fans. Around the festival, the two entrepreneurs are gradually building a small cultural ecosystem: from tours in Japan to the upcoming IZANAGI online store Shop, which promises to take the experience further and beyond the cinema halls.
Behind the festival is a small but well-organized team: the two phonators and several full-time collaborators take care of planning, film selection and logistics, and for each edition they also receive help from volunteers. Preparing a festival takes almost a year, from choosing the theme and contacting distributors, to translating the films and setting up the spaces.
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