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                                 I always wanted to visit Iran , it was a must for me in this life,  and here I am, paying a visit to my friend Ali, who was so kind to invite me and host me for around 7 days, right? I have always been fascinated by history and Iran has an impressive one. The Persian Empire (including  Media, Lydia and Babylonia) with all of its culture, traditions, beauty and power, the Babylon legend, the Zoroastrianism religion, all of these things made me feel so excited about visiting Iran.                               ...from a museum in Tehran Very interesting how Persia changed in Iran. As far as I understood from history, the name 'Persia' was given to the land by the Greeks, after Pārsa, the name of the people  whom Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty first ruled (...

                          Photo credit: Olivier Bac Life is beautiful. Life is beautiful when we make it beautiful. Beauty comes from inside to outside. A person with a beautiful soul will always have a beautiful body. Eyes never lie. If you look into my eyes, you can read lots of things; you can see beauty, genuineness, honesty, sharpness, happiness, love. What you see it's so true - I give and receive lots of love every day. Sometimes it is so much that overwhelms me and not sure how to react. Actually, this is what happened this year - a year of hope, love, hate, softness and happiness: 2016 was far too difficult for me, can't wait to see this year as past. 1. My 1st feature film  After the post-production I sent it to festivals craving for recognition; ended up with failure after failure. I must admit that in my life there were very few professional failures, and it was so difficult for me to take it t...

Being a Romanian, always wondered if I have a balkanik culture or not.    Photo credit: Adelin San Well, from Antiquity, the Balkan Mountains had been called by the local Thracian name Haemus . The Greek mythology says that the Thracian king Haemus was turned into a mountain by Zeus as a punishment and the mountain has remained with his name. There are many other information and legends about Balkans - this region, being a quite vast peninsula (which includs Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania,Greece and the European section of Turkey) is full of beautiful, distinctive cultural grounds. Photo credit: Ia-ti o Poza la Portofel  But.. What does it mean to have a Balkanik culture? Well, all these countries placed around the Balkan Mountains with Slavic roots, took a bit from Latin, Greek and Otoman cultural behaviour and apparently, this interesting mixture between these speci...

I have a big soul full of happiness. I am keen to share it with you if you need a piece of my happiness. I am happy to give out of it as much as possible as  the more I give,  the more I have.   I believe in trust, pozitivity and good feelings. I see beauty. Everywhere. Inside me and around the things I am surrounded by;  inside you and around the things you are surrounded by. Beauty is here, there, in every corner. You have to open your mind and see it. Life is so simple and beautiful if you know what you want, am I right? Life is so amazing and unpredictable if you let it choose, instead of choosing yourself. Life is the best gift for us as human beings if we know to make it unforgettable. Life is a blessing. We have the most beautiful existence, here, in this world, in this specific moment. Live your life the best way you can, the easiest you can, the simplest you can. Then you have everything, as everything is possible in this world.  Even to have...

It is always about people. Life. Love. Success. Progress. Career. We can't do anything without people, can we? We are social beings, we are loving and caring beings. We can't be happy without people around us. This year was amazing for me, especially because I have found wonderful people. My life turned out beautifully because of these great humans I had the chance to meet and keep in my life. All we do is with people's help. All I did was with your contribution. Thank you for being with me! This time last year, I was planning my film production. I dreamed with my eyes open. Today I am planing the distribution of that film. It is good to plan, it is even better to dream. I dream a lot. I plan a lot. I dare a lot.  Maybe Robin Sharma is right, it is all about focusing on the thing you really, really want: Coming back to the people I have met this year: wonderful individuals! A big group of them involved in my feature film production  - we shared the same idea, th...

I don't know with what to start. Yes, we managed to finish the production...with a lot of debts but still, we did it! Actors were not paid, the film crew was not paid, some filming equipment needs to be paid (the lights and the electrical generator). There is a lot of pressure on me as a producer and director. Sometimes I just want to drop everything and run away. But how can I? Too late now...too much done already...we only have the post-production left! But man, this is a lot of work!!! Even after shooting, it still feels like you are in the middle of the project! The post-production, publicity and distribution is somehow more important than anything else! No one told me that producing a film is so hard. Although I will somehow manage to do this project with 25 000 euros, two millions euro still don't seem enough. Sometimes I wonder....why all the people, producers, directors I talked with ...never told me about the real costs of a movie? WHY?????? The sound for a...

179 scenes in 5 weeks! 300 people involved in this project! 44 filming set locations! 1902 costumes! 9008 props items! Thousands of unforgettable moments! This is what we did!  Sounds like an army, but it was not. We were like a family and we all worked driven by the same goal: to finish the production of Herman-The Man Behind The Terror. And so we did! We have the whole footage now, we are ready for the post-production. I am so proud of these wonderful people I had the chance and the honor to meet and work with.  Sometimes I feel so lucky - and this moment was a moment I felt lucky. During this film production I have met so many great people. People that will forever remain in my mind and my soul. REAL people. People who ACT more than they speak, people who work hard to get what they want from their life. HONEST, SIMPLE people. People who stood by me when I needed them. People who came in my life for the purpose of helping...They were there..coming fr...