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Cristian Măcelaru: „In art, you must bring something from yourself to discover beauty. In entertainment, you don’t need anything, just a ticket.”
In Paris, he is seen as a superstar and his concerts are sold out. Măcelaru is the Music Director of the Orchestre National de France…
Mircea Arapu, Illustrator of Pif and Hercule: “Drawing has always kept me on the surface.”
In 1959, a 4 year old boy from Bucharest, living in a part of the city with nice houses, between Popa Nan and Hala Traian, decided to leave home and go searching for Pif, the famous comic book dog.
He had discovered the Pif universe in the Vaillant magazines, that an aunt had given to his older brother. From that moment on, he has dedicated his life to his passion for comics.
Mădălina Constantin, actress: “In Paris I learned to wash away all preconceptions.”
We met Mădălina Constantin in the foyer of the La Colline Theater in Paris, one of the 5 national theaters in France. She was greeting the people working in the theater and she led us through the back rooms of the theater as if it was her home.
Ami Barak, curator: “Contemporary art has gone from maximum confidentiality to a mass phenomenon.”
Ami Barak is an important figure in the world of contemporary art. Few know that he is, originally, from Romania.
For 6 years He was in charge of the department dedicated to the Art of the City of Paris and coordinated the first editions of Parisian White Nights.
Ramona Horvath, pianist: „A musician is a universal citizen. It doesn’t matter where you’re from.”
În inima Parisului, lângă Catedrala Notre-Dame, pe malul Senei, ne întâlnim cu Ramona Horvath, cea mai apreciată pianistă română de jazz a momentului, stabilită în capitala Franței de aproape 15 ani.
Cristinel Șirli, the sound engineer in charge of one of the top studios in France: „I didn’t come to France to do sound, it was a matter of life and death.”
Born in Oravița and going to high-school in Bucharest, young Cristinel Șirli was dreaming in the ‘80s of becoming a cinematographer. At the age of 20, a horrifying diagnosis that gave him only a few months to live, would change his destiny.
Today he is one of the most important film sound engineers in France, owning his own studios, at the highest level, in the center of Paris.
The smell of linden trees in Bucharest and a film empire in France. The fascinating story of Marin Karmitz, the Romanian-French film director and producer
As a director and film producer, Marin Karmitz has received over 150 awards and nominations in major film festivals, including three Palme d’Or awards, three Golden Lions at Venice, a Golden Bear in Berlin, three Oscar nominations and no less than 25 Cesar Awards.
Dorin Crețu, Romanian-French painter in Paris: “It is a luxury to do what you like, and it somehow has to be paid.”
Dorin Crețu has been living in Paris for 32 years, where he is an established painter and has recieved the support of the French state to develop hi passion for art, born during his childhood in Brașov.
Tatiana Țîbuleac, writer: “The world thinks that if someone leaves, they must have a place to call home. In my mind it wasn’t like that.”
The writer Tatiana Țîbuleac was born in Moldova, she’s a Romanian, the wife of a British-Swiss citizen and she lives in Paris for 13 years. Through her books she has shown more than any passport could, that she is a complex writer, who can bring to live characters from different parts of Europe.