Born in Timisoara, Romania, Anca Lăzărescu immigrated with her family to Germany in 1990. She studied at the German Academy for Film and Television in Munich and has directed several documentary and short films. Her graduation short, Silent River (2011), was invited to over 300 international festivals and won more then 80 awards. Anca also spent time abroad volunteering in an Israeli kibbutz and completing an internship at CNN and on the comedy series Scrubs in Los Angeles. That Trip We Took With Dad is her first fiction feature. Filmography: Bucharest-Berlin (short), 2004; Salma Beneath Two Skies (short), 2005; The Secret of Deva (short), 2007; One Day Today Will Be Once (short), 2009; Silent River (short), 2011; That Trip We Took With Dad, 2016