The Boy Who Became King won the Director's Choice Award and the Audience Award  at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival last weekend....
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A Greek Lady at the Lady Filmmakers Festival

A Greek Lady at the Lady Filmmakers Festival

Curiosity...

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
- Dr Samuel Johnson


Curiosity may have been responsible for the death of that poor little kitten... Curiosity is also responsible for the evolution of the human kind...

Always say...

how infatuated I am with life, even tattooed it on my body, to remind myself how beautiful and full of possibilities it is...the journey, my school...the 34th year of my life has been so far the most important year of my life...everything's so clear...when I was seventeen I wrote and I am quotting myself "when i look in the mirror, the person staring back at me does not seem real, some times i wish i could take this little girl in me and tell her is ok, i know it makes no sense but somehow that little girl seems so much stronger than me..." have tears running down my face thinking of that dark place I was at at that time of my life...today when I look in the mirror I see me, I see the strength and the beauty of me, all the things that make me me...it's been a long road with a lot of ups and downs and there were moments that felt I  wasn't going to make it at the end of the tunnel, wasn't going to find my way out, days that even blinking my eyes felt tiring...but I did...I heard those birds sing for the first time, saw the colors, saw life through different eyes...like a little kid wanted to feel and see everything, getting overwhelmed at times...that was ten years ago. Ten years ago that little girl that was a lost cause went against all odds...the more I was rising from the grave the more he was getting in...the stronger I got the weaker he did...as if he had made a deal deal with God...we all serve our purpose in life, he served his, he saved me...everyday when I wake up, I try to make the best out of the second chance I got in this life...check myself at all times, making sure I am correct in my interactions with people and true to myself, that I am the best I can be with the experiences I have...never said I am perfect but I'm tryng to be the best I can.

"in order to become whole, we must try, in a long process, to discover our personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom" 
Alice Miller

so believe...

everything moves organically, that there are no accidents...timing...we say timing's everything but the truth is...we make timing...the right head space...we are more open to certain things because of where we are at, how open we are to take things in...I see nothing bad, everything is good, everything's life...the magic of life but I still get surprised and, still stop and tell myself what the hell...but at the end of the day, life's fun...we make it worthwhile by being present, by feeling every single frame of it...once in a while I stop and think where I was and where I am today...thousand lives after and I am still here, still breathing and I survived...I evolved the greatest gift of all...I thrive from human interaction and I feel so grateful of every person that came in my life to help me clarify where I needed to go next...whether they are conscious of it or not, I am who I am today because of them...

"As long as you know, men are like children. You know everything"
Coco Chanel

"The difference between school and life?
In school, you are taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you are given a test that teaches you a lesson."
Tom Bodett 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge...for knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand"
Albert Einstein

Film making...

is telling a story through pictures, is a team work... we all follow the director’s vision, we contribute with what we do best but it is still the director’s vision…as long as the team believes in the vision and we are all in the same team then the journey of discovery begins…I love the unfolding of the journey, from the first table read to the it’s a wrap…one of my first acting teachers once said, if you are not in love with your character you can never become that person…I choose characters that are very far away from me, the more I have to learn and the more I have to adjust the easier it is for me to get there and of course is more exiting…I use everyone and everything in my work…and is always the oddest little detail that makes that character come to life…I am not a good actor, I have to go there, I have to feel it…I have to relate it to it and unfortunately I do bring it home…being an actor let’s face it, is a bit sociopathic…we transform into other people we make real to us what everyday people call “it’s just a movie”…I like to call it a mode, and if I've explored a mode, I see no point on recreating a similar character on a different film, I’ve been there done that…today, I went to an audition, it’s about the stages of grief…hits home…it’s very personal, and it’s hard using something so personal, is like standing naked on Sunset Strip on a Saturday night…I know that I would love to share the pain of those days, how your world as you know it can come to an end, how a human soul can go through the motions…how everything stops…in film is always portrayed as something so dramatic, the phone call, the scream…well it's not, you freeze, there’s no sound, everything stops and you, you just stand there all alone…I love the director I met today, she guided me right back to that day, I remembered details I forgot…
I was seven when I first said I’m going to be an actor and if you ask me now how I survived without acting in the last ten years, I have no idea why I pushed away something that makes me feel so alive, but hey I was miserable the last ten years, I was suffocating and it took one person telling me I guess you did not love it enough to jump right back to it…success to me is to be able to grow as an artist and as a human being with brilliant people…to tell stories, to find truths and touch souls and I’ve learned that if a director has no vision or does not know how to work with actors then is not my kind of director…I worked and met amazing brilliant human souls the last few months, thank you all, for making it so real to me that I’m doing the right thing going back to where I belong…thank you for letting me be a part of your journeys…