Ligia Ciornei is an interdisciplinary artist, screenwriter, director, and producer, known for integrating mixed reality into storytelling. She studied Film Directing and Production at "I.L. Caragiale" UNATC in Bucharest, where she is now completing a PhD on immersive cinema distribution and technology. Her films—including Clouds of Chernobyl, Do You Believe in God?, Vintage, and the VR short Dr. TEX—have screened internationally and are available on HBO Max, Tubi, and Amazon Prime. Beyond film, she creates performative installations like Citadela and directs theater works such as Grounded. She is artistic director of the Thinking Festival and a film selector at Simfest, an artistic consultant for the Noetic Ark, and has completed research residencies at the University of Southern California and the Birmingham Institute of Robotics. She is currently producing Gone Guy, a feature documentary, as well as two feature films: Three Sisters My Robot, and Grounded Between Borders.More...