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‘’All filmmakers shall unite and demand a policy from the European Union where the culture shall be put as a priority in the film industry’’ - Vassilis Kosmopoulos, Director of Greek Film Centre ‘’People want to watch documentaries.’’ - Hanka Kastelikova, HBO Europe VP/Executive Producer, Documentaries ‘’Take time to build the audience for the slow burners movies’’ – Bianca Oana, Producer, Manekino Film  ‘’The festivals are the cheapest tool of promotion’’ – Ada Solomon, producer Hi Film Productions ‘’The blockchain for film will create one central, coherent report of your project. It offers vertical information, transparency, the ease with financial documents’’ – Maria Tanjala, co-founder of Film Chain Due to the courtesy of the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, I had the chance to attend the conference ‘’Fostering European cooperation through co-production’’, an event designed to help the film co-production cooperation in t...

 Nowadays, the idea of marriage seems quite natural  to most people, however it is not  always been so.  During history, man had no concept of love and no concept of institution of marriage. From the beginning of human history (3 000 000 B.C)  to the end of matrilineal society (in 5000 B.C.) the history of marriage transits from group marriage, polygamy, to monogamy stage.  Each stage has its own development, transition and evolution.  Most of all these marriage traits disappeared, but in some areas in the World, they still remain untouched.  Long Sen- Lin produced a documentary about the ‘Amazing marriage customs’ in China.  From the arranged marriages to the group marriages -  in one hour and a half -  the viewer is walked through all marriage customs.  The movie presents in a simple, clear, ethnographic way, moments of marriage:  by parents arrangement, by force, by woman choice, by duty and many more. He explai...