Ioana Bogdana co-wrote and produced the comedy series IN THE CITY (2022) for the CEE VoD platform VOYO. She also worked in the development and production department of arthouse features ranging from Radu Jude’s DRACULA (Locarno IFF 2025) and Alina Șerban’s I MATTER (Venice IFF 2026) to Olga Lucovnicova’s LAST LETTERS FROM MY GRANDMA (Festival dei Popoli 2025). She’s currently in development with a historical LGBTQ+ series that she co-created, funded by Creative Europe-MEDIA. Besides film & TV, Ioana works on the funding and management of cultural, interdisciplinary, and community projects. For eight years, she also organised and curated an international festival of films and other arts created by teenagers, in Bucharest, Romania.
Ioana is an alumna of international programmes such as MIDPOINT Series Launch, Words Across Europe, Sarajevo Talents, etc. She graduated from the University of the Arts London with first-class honours and is a board member of the Romanian Guild of Film & TV Scriptwriters.