In today’s episode, W. Scott Olsen talks to Ilie Mitaru, an Emmy-nominated producer, director, and photographer whose work centers on regular people in extraordinary circumstances.
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Ilie Mitaru is an Emmy-nominated producer and director whose work centers on regular people in extraordinary circumstances.
American cowboys brought to rural Russia to help restart the country’s beef industry; renegade farmers building their own wildfire defense rigs; a lone auto mechanic traversing miles of desert borderland with jugs of water to save his fellow migrants, Ilie’s stories create empathy and a connection to what at first might appear foreign, but ultimately proves universal.
Ilie’s films and photography have been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, The Guardian, among others. A first-generation Romanian-American whose parents received political asylum during the Cold War, Ilie is drawn to stories that push against easy assumptions of otherness and strive for a more complex understanding of the individuals and communities centered in his work.
ILIE MITARU
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