Florin Șerban was born in Reșița, Romania in 1975. After concluding his degree in Philosophy in 1998 he entered the Romanian Film School in Bucharest. During this time he wrote and directed short films, commercials, tv shows and videoclips. After finishing his studies in Bucharest, Florin Șerban was accepted at Columbia University, New York, for a Master Degree in Film Directing and moved to the US. During his stay he also taught Film Theory at Columbia University and started working on his first feature film. If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, his debut feature, won Silver Bear - Grand Jury Prize and Alfred Bauer prize for innovation in cinema at Berlinale in 2010, together with over 20 distinctions at various festivals around the world.
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