Laurentiu_Garofeanu

Thanks for your question.
As the director, like with other peojects i work on, I'm trying to first of all start a conversation. It's important for a nation, community, just like a person to go throught therapy in order to heal throumas caused by whatever events.
There are a lot of people who either are on denial or don't like to talk about the sensitive issues. I am hoping this would be hart of the healing process.
The more people know about these issues, the better, awarness is another key aspect of what we are aiming for.
The last, and it's more like and ideal, is to change so,ething in the system and the children that need care to be looked after in a better way.
A lot of issues have spilled after the adoptions spopped and many children are trapped without having a chance to be adopted.

There were a lot of 'good adoptions', legal ones, saving a lot of children from very poor living situations in the orphanages. At the beginning, quiate a lot of disabled children were adopted, given the opportunity for a better life.

As time went on, more and more people came to adopt and Romanian people working in the system started to take advantage from the situation.
Many adoption agencies set up shop to help these parents adopt, some international.

Hi, yes, I am aware of Nanfu's film, it's a very important documentary on the same topic.
China, Vietnam, South American countries had the same issue as the Eastern Europe ones like Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania.

Our film has a similar aproach to the similar problem.
We are hoping to open a conversation about the recent, post communistic past.
It's really amazing how many people do not know about these issues, in Romania but more so abroad.
It's not a shamfull past, it's a painful one and i think it's important to talk about it.
In order for us to move forward and hopefully don't make the same mistakes.

in respect to the pandemic, yes, it's a big issue for us like any other documentary filmmekers. We were suppose to film in 2020 but we totally got stuck because of the restrictions imposed.
We are working now on making a plan to start again.
Anyhow, you probably know in developing a documentary takes anywhere between 3-5 years without the pandemic.
Our film should be open to public in 2022 the soonest.

Hope that answers your questions

I think, like any creative process, there are several ways to choose a subject.
In this case, as i was away from Romania for 15 years, coming back I realized how many issues weren't covered in the main stream media.
I am interested in working on human interest stories, I love people and I think every person has an amazing stories to tell.
In the past i have worked with homeless people, people with dizabilities, discrimination, but not only, extreme and new sports.

It all started with the children found in the orphanages after Ceausescu's regime fell in dec 1989, news reports from around the rold came and didf reports on them, such as BBC in the UK and 20/20 in USA. Most people remember these images.