Biography
Ioana Mischie is a Romanian-born innovative artist, multi-awarded for film, virtual reality, and pioneering concepts. Her creative mission as transmedia artist (writer/director) and futurist is blending meaningful concepts, groundbreaking technologies and long-term social impact. Fulbright Grantee Alumna of U.S.C. School of Cinematic Arts (collaborating with the Civic Imagination Lab /Mixed Reality Lab / JoVRnalism /Worldbuilding Lab), and Alumna of U.N.A.T.C., advanced the transmedia storytelling field as part of her doctoral study thesis completed with Summa Cum Laude.
After graduating U.N.A.T.C.'s storytelling-driven BA and MA, her cinematic projects as writer/director have traveled to more than 250 festivals worldwide (Cannes IFF, Venice Biennale IFF, Palm Springs ISFF, Thessaloniki IFF) and were developed in top-notch international programs (Berlinale Talents - Script Station, Sundance Workshop - Capalbio, Cannes International Screenwriters Pavilion, Locarno Academy Meetings, Biennale College Cinema VR).
Her interactive works were awarded by international playgrounds such as The Webby Awards, European XR Awards, Fipadoc Smart, Golden Drum, South by Southwest Hackathon, The Steamer Salon, Stereopsia, GoEast Open Frame Award and many more. Two of her recent VR franchises received the first European Meta grant via Women in Immersive Technologies and the Immersive Creators Catalyst program. She was selected in residencies across the globe, one of the most transformative being the artistic residency Forward Slash Story, organized by Columbia University.
She has successfully collaborated as a writer/director with Channel 4 in the UK (for two doc webseries with a record of views in the UK) and with the Oscars-awarded Legende Films (for the short fiction 237 Years). Her short film, Cumulonimbus, was nominated at the Gopo Awards 2018 for Best Short Film and was selected by Gus Van Sant as a finalist of the Coppola Shorts out of 5000 global entries. The expanded portfolio includes cinematic VR (The Wetland), participatory poems (Idonee), transmedia installations, web documentaries (Unsilenced Voices).
Co-founder and Head of Storyscapes, a non-profit association focusing transmedia storytelling and expanded narratives initiated in 2012. In between 2015 and 2020 collaborated as an arts-based research collaborator of CINETic, an Eastern European center focusing on the interaction between neuroscience and groundbreaking audio-visual paths. Starting with 2020, the protagonist of this bio took a leap of faith to design a fresh transmedia initiative conceived as a transdisciplinary, trans-generational and trans-real hub. In Romania she activates as well as a transmedia futurist for audio-visual and educational entities.
While, in love with sharing good practices and collaborative learning, Ioana is teaching digital media arts, virtual reality, digital storytelling classes at both UNATC and UBB. Shared insights as an international speaker in conferences such as TEDxBoldandBrilliant.
Member of Women in Film and Television Los Angeles since 2018 and member of Global Shapers Bucharest Hub, an initiative by World Economic Forum since 2020. Ioana Mischie is currently elected as a Fulbright Ambassador.
Among her recent original transmedia franchises, she has created the project Government of Children (3D film, web, XR), a pioneering expanded franchise empowering children to see themselves as leaders and to redesign their society. Her cinematic paths combine long-term concepts, groundbreaking technologies, and forms of expanded artistic impact. Envisioning the world as a neo-creative playground, she deeply believes that storytellers are "the architects of the future" (Buckminster Fuller).
