Acasa, My Home: an interview with the core team behind the multi-awarded documentary film
I wish I could translate into words the emotion I felt during my interview with Radu, Monica, Lina & Mircea – the core team of the multi-awarded feature film - Acasa, My Home. I missed so much the encounters with genuine human beings, for whom the world we live in actually matters, that my meeting with them was like a breath of fresh air. We talked mostly about their feature film – Acasa, My Home, which was a cinematic debut for Radu (director), Lina (writer) and Mircea (DOP), since all of them come from a journalism background. The film follows the Enache family, who’s been living for 19 years in the urban jungle of Vacaresti Delta Park and is now forced to move out and become a part of society, once the Park becomes a protected area. During the interview, I could notice their openness to this Roma family, when gypsies are seen by the Romanian people more like a subspecies, rather than human beings, as well as their profound fondness for all of the 11 members of Enache’s family. I have discovered what really getting involved in a project looks like, and how much can modesty and openness matter. Ambitious, but modest, open to telling new stories and to discovering new people, aware that the help they offer to someone else can also contribute to their personal development, the four filmmakers sat down with me for an honest interview and full of surprises, in Monica’s little office garden, on a late summer evening. Right after that, we packed all our stuff and headed to Vacaresti Park, the place for our photo shooting, where I felt part of the team – Mircea was carrying the props, while Radu was fixing the lights, when he was not modelling for our photographer. Everything came naturally and went great. An interview and a photo shooting I keep close to my heart, as a reminder that life is beautiful, it deserves to be discovered, fought for, and protected.
Film producer and founder of ADFR, she dreamed since she was little of having a magazine one day. Alongside her job as editor-in-chief, she writes the interview of the month. She loves animals, jazz music and films festivals.
