Anca Păunescu studied German philology and film, and for the last 9 years she has been intensively involved in documentary film selection, curation and creative advising for special programmes at various European festivals.
She is currently co-curator of One World Romania and  main documentary film programmer at the Neisse Film Festival- Germany.
(She has also been a jury member at Makedox, Kasseler Dokfest, Iceland Documentary FF, DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market, Fipadoc and others.)