09/03/2026
Every filmmaker has an origin story. This one starts in a Romanian orphanage. 🎬
Before Windswept Media, Emmy nominations, Cannes recognition, and national productions, there was a boy from Constanta, Romania, navigating one of the most challenging starts to life imaginable.
Bunee: The Boy from Constanta is a 15-minute documentary about Windswept Media Founder Bunee Tomlinson's personal journey surviving the first six years of his life in the Romanian orphanage system of the 1980s and '90s, and the growth that followed.
The film was selected as one of 23 finalist films from around the globe for The American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016.
We share this not just as a milestone, but because it speaks directly to what drives everything we do here. The belief that every person has a story worth telling, and that telling it well can change the way people see the world.
👉 Watch the full documentary on our Work page: https://windsweptmedia.com/work