Cristian Nemescu

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Cristian Nemescu Romanian pronunciation kristi?an ne?mesku 31 March 1979 24 August 2006 was a Romanian film director Nemescu was born in Bucharest He graduated from the Academy for Theater and Film in 2003 During his final year in the academy he made a short film Story From The Third Block Entrance that received awards at the NYU International Student Film Festival and thePremiers Plans in Angers France The European Academy Awards nominated it as best short film that year Nemescus Marilena from P7 which he wrote and directed entered in the 2006 Cannes competition Nemescus last film was California Dreamin Endless starring Armand Assante He finished filming in July and was in postproduction at the time of his death The movie was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Nemescu was killed in a car crash in Bucharest that also killed Romanianborn sound engineer Andrei Toncu Nemescu and Toncu were riding in a taxi that was struck on Eroilor Bridge by a Porsche Cayenne SUV driven by a British citizen Ali Imran who ran a red light Technical expertise established that the Porsche was going 113 kmh 63 kmh above the speed limit while the taxi had a speed of 42 kmh The driver was initially sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Romanian court but this was later reduced to 6 years