If Objects Could Speak / Si les objets pouvaient parler (dir. Luiza Parvu & Toma Peiu, Canada - Romania, 2018) will play at the 10th edition of the Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico - October 4th - 10th, 2019. This will be the film’s North American premiere.

Toma Peiu will give a presentation on migration research, the making of the fiction short film Start Anew World (dir. Luiza Parvu, Romania- Hungary - USA, 2014) and the feature documentary Ubi Bene Ibi Patria, which he co-directed and shot with Luiza Parvu, at the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, on September 25th, 2019, at 8pm.

Toma Peiu has received a competitive summer graduate fellowship from the Center of the Humanities and the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder.

If Objects Could Speak / Si les objets pouvaient parler (dir. Luiza Parvu, Toma Peiu, Canada-Romania, 2018) will have its South American premiere in the Best Documentary Short competition, at the upcoming Inca Imperial Film Festival in Lima, Peru (May 16th - 19th, 2019).

Toma Peiu will participate in the Soyuz Annual Symposium of the Post-Socialist Cultural Studies Network of the American Anthropological Association - Beyond the Soviet Slot: Race, Indigeneity & Identity, held at the University of Pittsburgh, between March 29th - 30th, 2019.

Toma Peiu will convene the panel Precarious landscapes, forensics and decolonial futures at the 16th Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival & Conference - Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and ITs Others, held at The Watershed in Bristol, UK, between March 27th - 30th, 2019.

The Sea Was Here, a large-scale video installation by Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu, will premiere at Wild | Tame, an exhibition curated by Nature, Environment, Science and Technology (NEST), and running in the SEEC building atrium between February 21st - May 23rd, 2019.

Toma Peiu will give a research presentation at the 2019 New York University Cinema Studies graduate conference The Re/active Image - on Saturday, February 16th @ 3.45 pm, in the Michelson Theater, Room 648, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, New York, NY.

Toma Peiu moderated a conversation with Simon Kilmurry, Executive Director of the International Documentary Association and former Executive Producer at POV - the long-running PBS showcase of documentaries, in the frame of Astra Film Festival’s DocTank. The talk happened on Friday, October 19th, at 12pm, in the Glass Room @ Thalia Hall (Sibiu, Romania).

Ubi Bene Ibi Patria, Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu’s debut feature documentary film, is included in the Romanian Docs in Progress section of the Documentary Tank industry program at Astra Film Festival (October 17-19, Sibiu, Romania).

Migrant Water - the multimedia installation by Toma Peiu, Alice F. Hill, Luiza Parvu and Peter Cusack, co-produced by Root Films - currently on display in the Embryonic exhibition curated by Nature Environment Science and Technology (NEST) Studio for the Arts - was recently featured in the Colorado Matters program on Colorado Public Radio., the local NPR affiliate.

A program of recent documentary and experimental films by Toma Peiu and Luiza Parvu, titled MOMENT OF YIELD, will be presented at the 2018 Unseen Festival, hosted by Counterpath, Georgia Art Space, Gildar Gallery, Peralta Projects, Dikeou Collection in Denver , and Nature, Environment, Science and Technology (NEST) in Boulder.

Migrant Water - a multimodal research installation by Toma Peiu, Alice F. Hill, Luiza Parvu, Timothy Dunn & Peter Cusack, will be on view throughout the Fall at Embryonic - the inaugural exhibition by NEST (Nature, Environment, Science and Technology) Studio for the Arts, hosted in the University of Colorado Boulder’s brand new CASE Building, between September 21st - December 21st, 2018.

If Objects Could Speak / Si les objets pouvaient parler (Canada - Romania, 2018), the most recent documentary short film by Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu, premieres internationally in the International Short film competition of the 25th Astra Film Festival in Sibiu, Romania (October 15 - 21, 2018).

University of Colorado Center for Media, Religion and Culture research fellow Toma Peiu will present on the mystical influences in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and the Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective, at Media, Religion and Public Scholarship - the 11th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (Boulder, August 8th - 11th, 2018).