Dan Chişu
President
Dakino Foundation
Dan Chişu has graduated from the Ecole Superieure Audiovisuelle, Paris, obtaining a professional cameraman specialty In 1991, he founded the Advertising Society DaKINO and the homonymous International Film Festival, which he produced and organized for the last fifteen editions. He has produced and organized the BiFEST festival (2004), Noaptea Sportului Extrem (2001), Festivalul de Film Publicitar Romanesc (1994), Noaptea Devoratorilor de Publicitate (1994/2006). Dan was the co-producer of Mediafest (1997), the first Phoenix tour in Romania (1991), the concert of Goran Bregovic (1998), and the one of Emir Kusturica (1999). He has also produced many successful TV shows on different Romanian TV channels. In 1993, he entered the cinema field, by realising the making-of and starring into "Senatorul melcilor" movie (1993); also, he co-produced, realized the making-of and starred into "Asfalt tango" (1997). Dan's involvement with the theatre comprises the production and direction of "SaKADATextraSENSORial" theater play in 2001/2002.