Stere Gulea
He was born in Mihail Kogălniceanu commune, Constanța County, in an Aromanian family that had fled from the Kaliakra region of Southern Dobruja during the 1940 population exchange between Bulgaria and Romania.He made his film director debut that year with Apa ca un bivol negru [ro] ("The Water Like a Black Buffalo"); this documentary movie, done in collaboration with his IATC colleagues, Dan Pița and Mircea Veroiu, record the catastrophic 1970 floods in Romania.[3] In the early 1970s, he produced and directed a Romanian Television documentary based on Mateiu Caragiale's life; his first feature film was Iarba verde de acasă [ro] ("The Green Grass from Home", 1978), based on a screenplay by Sorin Titel [ro].In 2019, he won the Gopo Award for best movie with Moromeții 2 [ro],[5] This film is a sequel to The Moromete Family (1988), also directed by Gulea, both based on the eponymous novel by Marin Preda.In 2018 Gulea was made honorary citizen of Talpa, the commune in Teleorman County where both these movies were shot.