Andreea Lăcătuș is a film director and cultural producer, with studies in film and cultural management. Her short films, "Beast" (2018) and "Between the edges of the day" (2023) have been selected at festivals at home and abroad, including Shanghai IFF, Golden Goblet Award (2018) and Sarajevo IFF (2023), this year being nominated at the Gopo Awards for Best Short Film.

She has, over time, carried out interdisciplinary projects or in diverse environments such as installation, performing arts and writing, using different approaches and working methods such as co-creation and devised work, being interested in fluid structures, in which the roles in the teams be defined in the least hierarchical, horizontal sense.

Starting from 2018, he co-created together with different teams cultural accessibility programs in rural and small-urban environments and education programs through cinema, and between 2022-2024 he is one of the CEC ArtsLink scholars, residing in the United States, collaborating with the LAPD (Los Angeles Poverty Department), where he researches the long-term impact of cultural and arts programs in vulnerable communities.

She is working on a PhD thesis on the ethics of the production and representation of socio-economically vulnerable communities in Romanian fiction film coordinated by Dr. Habil. Christian Ferencz-Flatz, research that forms the basis of a feature film with which he is in an early stage of development, and last year he took over the position of festival director at One World Romania.