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Contact: adriantofei@yahoo.com / +40730410347
Location: Bucharest, Romania

Height: 6′ 5½” (197 cm)
Hair: short, receding, salt & pepper
Eyes: brown

Film Credits:

Pure (feature film in development) – director / producer / writer
We Put the World to Sleep (2025 feature film) – starring / director / producer / writer / editor / cinematographer
Lost Footage (2022 experimental short film) – director / producer / writer
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015 cult feature film) – starring / director / producer / writer / editor / cinematographer

Acting highlights:

Best Actor winner at Nashville and Hamilton film festivals for the lead role in Be My Cat: A Film for Anne, which has been described by various publications such as IndieWire, Vulture, Collider, Screen Rant and Dread Central as “incredible“, “authentic“, “magnetic“, “complex”, “captivating“, “exceptionally strong“, “excellent throughout“, “powerfully convincing”, “shockingly good“, “frighteningly natural“, and included in Top 5 Must-See Indie Horror Performances of the Decade.

Filmmaking highlights:

IndieWire featured article: How ‘Be My Cat’ Found its Cult Following
IndieWire: “Hidden gem, nonstop nightmare and dazzling debut”
Blumhouse: “New intelligent found footage film you need to see“
Dread Central: “Revolutionary and dangerous“
Austin Chronicle: “Insane spark to found footage akin to a modern ‘Peeping Tom‘”
Little White Lies: “Prime example of meta-cinema falling between ‘Man Bites Dog’ and ‘Creep‘”
Slash/Film: “Insidiously terrifying, Țofei is magnetic onscreen“
Rotten Tomatoes: 88% Fresh

IndieWire: Top 50 Best Indie Horror Movies to Stream Right Now
IndieWire: Top 20 Best Found Footage Movies
Vulture: Top 25 Best Found Footage Horror Movies
Rotten Tomatoes: Top 100 Best Found Footage Movies
WatchMojo: Top 10 Best Low Budget Horror Movies
Collider: Top 10 Best International Found Footage Movies
Screen Rant: Top 20 Best Found Footage Horror Movies

Festivals, Awards & nominations:

2022 Vienna Shorts – official selection in curated program
2022 FilmQuest – official selection
2022 Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival – official selection
2022 Octopus Film Festival – official invitation
2018 Nightmares Film Fest – nominations for Best Thriller Feature and Best Actor
2018 Anchorage International Film Festival – official selection
2018 Unnamed Footage Fest in San Francisco – official selection
2016 Nashville Film Festival – Special Jury Prize for Best Actor
2016 Other Worlds Austin – official selection
2016 Hamilton Film Festival – winner of Best Actor and Most Electrifying Film
2016 On Vous Ment! Mockumentary Festival – Grand Prize for Best Feature
2016 Fright Nights Vienna – Best Feature nomination
2015 A Night of Horror in Sydney – winer of Best Film and nominations for Best Director and Best Male Performance
2015 Transilvania International Film Festival – official selection in competition for Best Romanian Feature
2015 Fantasporto – official selection in competition for Best Film

Other Works:

Guest Editor on Dread Central’s Best Genre Film Festivals & Sidebars in 2025/2026
Film Festivals Strategist at the Prague Film Institute (2024-present)
Awards Jury Member at the FilmQuest Film Festival (2021-present)
Jury Member at the 2021 Feratum Film Fest (international feature competition)
Judge at the World Monologue Games (2020) & World Monologue Film Festival (2021)
Consultant for festival submission strategies for various film projects
Jury Member at the 2015 Bosphorus International Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey
Author of the Found Footage Manifesto (2013, updated in 2015)
Coach for acting workshops and acting classes
Liana Goes to Hell (one-woman-show, 2012-2015) – director / co-producer – various venues in Bucharest
Blood Alcohol (theatre play, 2012-2013) – director / producer – various venues in Bucharest
The Monster (one-man-show, 2011-2013) – starring / director / producer / writer – various venues across Romania – official selections in multiple theatre festivals

Education:

Master’s degree in Theatrical Art (Acting) at the Spiru Haret University in Bucharest, Romania, class of Prof. Ștefan Velniciuc, Lect. Florin Grigoraș and Prof. Adriana Popovici (2010-2012)
Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts (Acting, Ion Cojar’s method) at the Lower Danube University in Galați, Romania, class of Prof. Mircea Gheorghiu and Assist. Florin Toma (2007-2010)
Filmmaking course at the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest (2006)

Areas of Expertise:

Acting, Filmmaking, Improvisation, Actor Training, Film Festival Consulting, Theatre

Languages:

English (fluent), Romanian (native), French (limited)