🎞️ Starting today, the documentary film "People of Justice. In dialogue with Liana Alexandru" can be watched in full and free online!
The Leaders for Justice Community has launched the 2019 short episode series and documentary film "PEOPLE OF JUSTICE. In dialogue with Liana Alexandru", in which 13 young lawyers tell about their personal and professional lives. Our aim with this film is to convey normality and humanity from the justice system to the citizen.
Our society is at a point where information about justice is coming fast and hard to follow, sometimes even for lawyers.
Answering Liana Alexandru's questions, the 13 protagonists tell how they see justice in Romania today, what cases have marked them, what they think about judicial and objective truth, how they relate to empathy and subjectivity, what they think about justice, how they perceive the current tension and pressures, what a day in their life in justice looks like, what rules they break or what they do in their spare time.
Judges from the Leaders for Justice (Romania) and LEAD (Republic of Moldova) communities have in recent years had the opportunity to watch Dutch episodes of the series "Looking into the Soul", interviews with Dutch judges conducted by national television. In October 2018, in a private screening, we decided to start a similar approach and gradually managed to build a team with which the project became a reality in less than 5 months.
The concept was developed by Veronica Sîrbu, one of the protagonists, and Doru Toma, coordinator of the program and of the "Leaders for Justice" community. The team was completed in November 2018 with two people who contributed in a very large proportion: director and producer Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan (Manifest Film) and journalist Liana Alexandru.
Following an open announcement on our internal community group, we gathered 13 confirmations. The protagonists of the film are: Alex Arghir, judge ⚖️ Tudor Burlacu, lawyer ⚖️ Tudor Ciobanu, judge ⚖️ Arina Corsei Vultureanu, prosecutor ⚖️ Roxana Catea, lawyer ⚖️ Iulia Georgescu, notary ⚖️ Theodor Ioniță, police officer ⚖️ Alexandra Carmen Lăncrănjan, prosecutor ⚖️ Ioana Mitu, lawyer ⚖️ Veronica Sîrbu, judge ⚖️ Simona Ștefăniu, prosecutor ⚖️ Bogdan Vasile, lawyer ⚖️ Mădălina Vlase, judge.
Filming took place on 12 and 13 January in Bucharest, in the space provided by Alina Țiplea of Merci Charity Boutique, and the editing work in January-March, led by Andrei Gorgan, meant several dozen hours in which the filmed material took the form of short episodes on well-defined themes, two 25-minute episodes and a full 55-minute film.
The short episodes were published between April and May on the Leaders for Justice page on the Youtube channel and have amassed over 180,000 views online.
From June to November 2019, the film "People of Justice: In dialogue with Liana Alexandru" was screened in cities in Romania and Moldova. The 33 public and private screenings were accompanied by open discussions with the public, featuring the film's protagonists and members of the Leaders for Justice community, lawyers and legal experts. In total, more than 1,500 viewers took part in the screenings in:
- Bacău (Closer Film Festival),
- Brașov (C.N. "Dr. I. Meșotă", as part of the One World Romania festival)
- Bucharest (10 screenings - Romanian Peasant Museum (2), Film Garden (2), Elvire Popesco Cinema, Training Cafe, DOR - Decât o Revistă, CampKennedy, Faculty of Law / Nicolae Titulescu University, Faculty of Law / University of Bucharest),
- Chisinau (Summit Events),
- Constanta (Constanta Casino),
- Cristian, Brasov (cartfest - Cristian International Art Festival),
- Craiova (C.N. "Frații Buzești" within Funky Debates III)
- Curtea de Argeș (La Conac),
- Iași (4 screenings - Teatru Fix, MERU, Street Delivery @ Acaju and Amfiteatrul Palas),
- Piatra Neamt (Theatre Festival),
- Rădăuți (House of Culture),
- Râșnov (Film and History Festival - FFIR),
- Reșița (Time Cafe),
- Ruse (Geo Mitev English High School)
- Râmnicu Vâlcea (l'Artista Pub),
- Sfântu Gheorghe (Cinema Arta by Cityplex),
- Sibiu (2 screenings - Astra Film Festival and Astra Junior),
- Sinaia (Film 4 Fun Festival),
- Timișoara (Embassy).
Our thanks go to all those who donated their time and resources to organize, prepare and participate in the screenings and discussions with the public around the film "People of Justice".
It is our hope that by doing so, we have taken important steps towards greater transparency and a better understanding of the justice system and the lives of legal professionals in Romania.
Leaders for Justice Community