Stories Off the Wall -Quarantine Writings and Interviews
In 2019, the 6th edition of the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle commemorated 30 years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Echoing the title of last year’s edition, our blog "Stories OFF the Wall – Quarantine Writings and Interviews” brings together inspiring articles and interviews with our friends, supporters and collaborators over the years. Bounced OFF the walls of home isolation, these stories engage our readers across the globe in a quest for shared meaning.
December 6, 2020
Interview with Irina Georgescu, Food Writer, Author of "Carpathia"
"I think that Romania’s culinary heart is defined by the Carpathian mountains and by the landscape they shape and dominate."
December 5, 2020
Interview with Lucian Ban, Jazz Pianist and Composer
"You know, aside from the tragedy of it, this is the hardest part of this pandemic: not being able to perform for or with such an audience."
August 9, 2020
Interview with Iulia Pană, Poet, Artist, Photographer
"Seattle… what can I say! One of my most treasured memories. I still recall every day I spent there."
July 9, 2020
Interview with Bogdan Darev, Storyteller, Film director and Producer
"Have you noticed how wearing a mask is now directing us to look at each other via the spiral of the eyes?"
June 5, 2020
Interview with Carmen Lidia Vidu, Theater, Film, Multimedia Director
"During isolation, I continued to work online, I adapted. I accepted that the world is changing and that we are living in a unique moment in history."
May 29, 2020
Interview with Robert Horn, Writer and Film Critic
"The Romanian New Wave, and then being in contact with folks at the Romanian Film Festival, made me interested in a possible Fulbright visit to Romania."
May 22, 2020
Interview with Tudor Giurgiu, Filmmaker and Founder of Transilvania Film Festival
"Be ready. Romanians won’t stop. More and more good films will come!"
May 8, 2020
Interview with Doina Ruști, Romanian Novelist
"Translation is a sort of lottery; it depends on chance. Neither the writer, nor the editors know what they would see in the end, because to translate means to actually...
May 2, 2020
Interview with Maryna Ajaja, Poet and Senior Programmer at SIFF
"The best part of these pandemic days are when reading, viewing, connecting to those near and dear though phone or internet, or going outside for walks on the hills of...