Curriculum Vitae
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CĂLIN VRABIE
www.CalinVrabie.com
1. Mass Media Director-Producer:
TV / Video & Photo production including:
DIRECTOR / WRITER / PHOTOGRAPHER / EDITOR / PRODUCER
2. Television Manager:
HEAD OF STATION / HEAD OF SPORTS / HEAD OF SELF-PROMOTION
Personal details
Address: Austria, Bachweg 4, Axams, Innsbruck, 6094
Romania, Banatului 24, Ploiesti, 100398
E-mail: calinvrabie@yahoo.ca / calin@calinvrabie.com
Skills
1. TV / Video & Photo:
- Management: television
- Video Production: documentary, family film, corporate, commercials
- Marketing: television self-promotion
- Photographer: on location ciné-vérité & studio
2. Engineering: Automotive Industry: Prototype Test Engineer
Education
- Master of Art, majored in Video Documentary, with Merit - Middlesex University, London
- Master of Science: Mechanics, with maximum 10 - Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest
- BBC – School of Journalism and Television – PRO TV
- BBC - School of Editing & post-production – PRO TV
- BBC – School of Camera, Directing, Production, On Camera Talent – PRO TV
Additional
English (IELTS), French, German (Goethe Inst. Certif.)
Experience
From 2003 National Geographic Channel / National Geographic Wild & People
Position: Head of On Air Promotion, Romania / Head of Local Production
From 2013 to 2015 International Judo Federation
Position: Self-promotion Director-Producer
From 2009 to 2013 Pokerstars & Full Tilt Poker
Position: Local Director-Producer, Romania
From 1997 “Adventure Film” – independent film & video production company
Genres: sport, documentary, commercial, promotion, presentation, corporate and special events, election campaign, outdoors expedition
From 1992 to 1997 PRO TV – the leader of the Romanian Broadcast market,
several production and executive positions, including:
- Head of Sports
- Head of Local Station
- Head of Self Promotion
- Director–Producer: “Sport Extrem”: 30 min weekly program
- Director–Producer: “Club Aventura”: 30 min weekly program
Others - writer / editor for Auto Pro, Auto Motor si Sport Magazines
- photographer: UNICEF, P&G, The One, Auto Pro, Auto Motor & Sport,
National Geographic Channel
Main productions
Major brands and organisations in portfolio: UNICEF, National Geographic, Eurosport,
TVR - Romanian National Television, Coca Cola, Procter & Gamble, Orange (aka Dialog), Vodafone (aka Connex), Citi Bank, Ford, Citroen, Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, BRD – Group Societe Generale, IJF – International Judo Federation,
Special Olympics, ICR – Romanian Cultural Institute
A. Documentary
On locations as Iraq, Cuba, Tibet, Nepal, Thailand, Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal,
Ivory Coast, Central Africa, Niger, Russia, USA, Switzerland, France, UK, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Romania
Main docs, most of them as director, writer, dop, editor, executive producer
- „Iraq 812 Battalion Carpathian Hawks” – 90 min social – TVR 1,
best audience on 1. December – National Day of Romania
- „Secret Cuba” – 80 min social – broadcasted on TVR 1
- „Coco” – 47 min: Seven Summits world record, 14 y.o. Coco Popoescu – Nat Geo
- „Everest” – premiere Ro expedition: producer, director, dop: live and edited, satellite broadcast: 8 weeks, 3 programs per week – PRO TV
- „Thailand, The Tourism Academy” – 40 min travel doc – TVR 1
- „Andreea live from Hollywood" - 12 x 30 min series – director, dop – TVR 1
- „Kilimanjaro” – exp. to Kenya and Tanzania, host A. Marin - 50 min doc – TVR 1
- „Africa": adventure to Kenya and Tanzania: Kilimanjaro, Mt.Kenya, Massai Mara, Nakuru: 50 min doc – TVR 1
- „Through the desert in slippers": Bucharest-(Paris)-Dakar: 2 x 50 min doc - TVR 1
- „UNICEF – Pampers” - Cote D'Ivoire event doc – client Procter & Gamble
- „UNICEF – Pampers” - Central African Rep. event doc – client Procter & Gamble
- „Niger” – UNICEF mission - TVR doc-show
- „Carpat Trophy Adventure Raid" & „Carpat Express Rally-Raid":
40 min yearly series - European off-road competitions - TVR1, PRO TV
- „Pokerstars”, 23 episode series - poker tutorial – on-line
- „Cantemir College 100 Years” – docs, live show video support, on-line videos
- „The Merry Cemetery” – social-ethno doc – Middlesex University, London
- „Nicu and Gabi” – short doc: Unified Football – Special Olympics
- „100 Years Krippe” – Tirol - short doc
- „Dialog Balloons”: 30 min - PRO TV
- „Anamaria Marinca” – 30 min doc, Germany, Realitatea TV, Ro
- „Traian Vuia” – 100 years first flight anniversary - a National Geographic short film
- „Dracula" - a National Geographic production, 50 min – prod. assistant
B. Sports
Personalities in focus: Olympic & world champions: Nadia Comaneci, Efgheni Plushenco, Andreea Raducanu, Lidia Simon, Elisabeta Lipa, Mihai Leu, Leonard Doroftei, Mihai Covaliu, Marius Urzică. Sport champions: Jean Louis Schlesser, Luc Alphand, Jutta Kleinschmidt, Ionut Iftimoaie
Main programs as director, DOP, writer, usually in multi-cam large crew formats:
- „Strongman” Essen – Germany – Eurosport
- „Strongest Man” Finland & Romania – Eurosport
- „Efgheni Plushenco” (Olympic and World Champion) - Eurosport
- „The Invincibles” – International extreme sports competition – Antena 1
- „Special Olympics European Youth Games” – Rome – Italy – TVR1
- „Romanian Extreme Adventure” – 7 Days off road international event – Antena 1
- „The Olympic Stars" – one week series of shows with Romanian Gymnastic Team,
Olympic and World Champion - video show & TV director
- „Galaxia Sportivilor": Romanian Sport Awards: live show - TVR1
- „Romanian Auto-Rally Championship" and "Romanian Auto-Speed Championship" two seasons exclusive rights: 25 min TV programs & news
- „Master Rally 2000" (World Cup Rally-Raid) - Ro stage – Pro TV
- „Swiss 4000” – mountaineering series of programs including climbing of Rimpfishhorn, Breithhorn, Monte Rosa and Matterhorn peaks – Pro TV
- „Romanian Mountaineering and Climbing Championships” - three season rights,
TV programs & news – Pro TV
- „Nanga Parbat” - Expedition to Himalayas (Karakorum) – event. co-producer
- „Bulldog Rally": Ro. Ford KA team in UK Rally - on Pro TV
C. Television Producer
Including writer, dop, of-line editor, host on camera, director, and producer
- „Club Aventura” – two years series of weekly programs – Pro TV
- „Sport Extrem” – one season series of weekly programs – Pro TV
D. TV Self Promotion
- International Judo Federation
- National Geographic Channel from 2003, including monthly local writer- director-producer for NG Core, Wild & People, as well as productions including:
- NG Viewers Club Romania – TV / Radio campaign
- Air Crash Links – host: Andreea Marin: 31 intro/extro
- Fillers
E. Presentations
Main productions and clients: CitiBank – Values; Motivation Romania – multiple projects, including IMPACT, Social Partners, Phare and EU, Special Olympics with multiple projects, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vodafone, BRD-Societe Generale Bank
F. Advertising
Over 35 commercials for leading brands as National Geographic, Richter Gedeon,
Berlin Chemie, Timken, Ford, Nissan, Ursus, Alutus, Grup As, Telemobil,
BRD - Societe Generale, Ines, Ro. Tourism Department, Aldis, Corint Publishing
G. Election Campaign
Romania: for President Mugur Isarescu – awarded as the best TV campaign
Bucharest: for Mayor Calin Catalin Chirita
H. Photography
Auto Motor & Sport Magazine - outdoors
Fashion: The One Magazine - Andreea Marin – Tanzania
UNICEF, P&G – multiple events in Africa and Europe
National Geographic Channel: Crina Coco Popescu - Seven Summits project
I. Journalism
Auto Motor & Sport Magazine, Pro Sport – writer, photographer
Calin Vrabie
2019