I'm an actress, a mother, an aspiring storyteller and I live downtown Los Angeles with my family at The Jesus Wall Photo Studio. I was born in Romania, at the base of the most beautiful parts of the Carpathian mountains, in the town of Busteni, which means log in english. As a mountain kid, I skied every winter, until Communism fell in 1989. Five years later, my family escaped to Chicago. After I graduated High School and  everyone my age were sent to college by their parents, and since my parents couldn't, I got a job in a bikini bar, saved money for gas and drove to the center of Hollywood instead. 

My new freedom was spectacular, but it was difficult without a green card. Couldn't compete with the important people in Hollywood. Once there, I did a lot of background work and I worked as a bikini dancer, which helped me survive. Met so many young girls like me, who didn't have rich parents either. I got married to my best friend, Jules. He was older, and said he would take me under his wing, and encouraged me, saying, very soon, it won't be just important people and the big studios making movies, but people like me will have more opportunities as well. He also would say I'm not allowed to do anything illegitimate, that whatever I do in life, I have to make sure it's legitimate, which is something he could not do, no matter how hard he tried, this thing followed him. I would ask, "how in the world will I do it? Because I can't now, it seems impossible", but he would say: "You can't do it now, but you will, you will see, you will." He had faith, and I learned to cook from his mother...   I met a teacher, also, through my photographer friend Kevin, and began my lifelong journey with The Teaching Ideas. Four years later my husband Jules died. His important entrepreneur friends were very upset, because he had no money, and he wasn't important like them. They were Jewish and Catholics, brothers of big judges, friends of powerful presidents and they lived in great locations. I had to leave Hollywood and move in with my parents, because those men said now I am just like them, I should leave and never come back to California ever again, or I may end up dead; and that  they are Jewish, and from the Jewish mafia, and that America will never give a break to a white European woman like me, because Europe hurt the Jewish once, and they know where my parents live and no matter how hard I tried, I could never be like normal people, but I am like them now, and it's  like a curse; and I will never be able to have anything in my name ever again. My dad would say to let them come, but I was too scared and too young, and didn't understand. And I would tell them Jules said I'm not allowed to do anything illegitimate, but they didn't care. One of them who said he is my uncle Bob ended up being right. It took a lot more than two years of exile to consolidate myself. He even said it will take even ten years, of hiding, better yet, twenty, on the run. No matter how much I hated them, they were right and they ended up protecting me.

  While I returned to my family and my Romanian roots, my dad's immigration lawyer gave me a green card and soon I became a US citizen. Many men in Hollywood would say I married Jules for a green card, but it wasn't true, I was  always my dad's dependant. I had a great dad who forged the Romanian heritage on my heart. I first got my idea for a production company while  in this enforced "omerta", so to speak, and I called it Nihil Sine Deo. Even though there were not films nor any creation for many years. Oh that means Nothing without God, and it used to be the motto for the Kingdom of Romania, if you didn't already know.

 My teacher died too, and left The Teaching ideas in form of videos and audio recordings so I dug deeper into my roots and The Teaching ideas, which is all I had. My dad paid for my green card with his janitor job and I took it for granted but I now am grateful to these great unimportant men, who protected and gave me opportunities to have a decent life. They were great men.

Two years after my husband Jules died, I returned to Los Angeles to continue my dream. I never told those important men but my dad gave me $500 in gas to get there. I didn't follow those men's advice, and why should I? Would you? I dreamed of being an artist, and if I were to die, would have rather died creating. Five years after Jules' death I even married my best friend, Kevin. We have two boys. We all live in Kevin's photo studio at the Brewery arts district downtown Los Angeles and I fell in love with storytelling. Kevin is an amazing photographer, I wish his pictures would move to tell a story. With the invasion of the digital world, and more powerful digital editing software and digital cameras, I watched as everyone struggled to make the switch from film to digital. I, instead, embraced it and I stood strong by Kevin and encouraged him to switch, because I knew that was a legitimate path to take. With new faster digital photoshoots and faster online auditions, I soon discovered I too can do this, like the other important great people, just like Jules said I would. As an actress I continue to work. There's always a catch 22 in this business. Can't work in big productions without an agent and can't get an agent if I don't work in big productions. Little by little I claimed an education and stopped dancing. I instead trained as an actress shortly after I gave birth to my two sons. My dad always said I won't find a husband in those gentlemen's clubs, but in church. He was right, none of the great important people ever help girls stuck in those dark bikini clubs. That life is a different reality. It was financial aid, instead, and a desire to be legitimate. Becoming a mother gave me the opportunity to get educated, because I couldn't do it before, no matter how hard I tried. But the love that came with my children, spread into me and then I could do it, just like Jules said I would. As my American sons grew, they took me along with them. My father died too, just three months after I took my diploma, as if he waited for me to get settled. Overall, everything I do has a connection to these three great men who are gone, who protected and taught me. Jules, my dad and my teacher. And as I get old, I'm beginning to realize that those important men were also right in their own way, and they might have just tried to do their best to warn me about truths and realities I face...   As a filmmaker, I help my husband with his studio downtown L.A and I encourage my sons' dreams of becoming animators. You notice I came across many men in my life. Even today, my two sons are my world to me. I also keep the Teaching ideas alive through films of my notes, or other life stories. The digital world made it possible even for little children to create films and tell their stories. Storytelling has become possible for someone like ourselves. In many ways, being legitimate prooved to be very difficult. But that word turned into a journey to strive to be a christian. There is always light at the end of any dark tunnel, but I found that light in the depths of the darkness, I was in was long and deep but that's where I found Me. What makes me Romanian, and American, and a mom, sister, wife, daughter and artist and Creator.

So come down town L.A. to our studio where we rent out to other creators and where all studios open their doors twice a year for the Brewery Art Walk so any artist can share their creations, and discover their brand, who and what they are.  And check out the small films we make. Let's create, the most exciting thing anyone can do at this party we are all invited guests at, here on earth. I wish all of you creators out there artistry, love in your hearts, to fuel your journey until we will meet again, "Face to Face in a life filled with His Joy and His Presence and His Service. In the meantime, all I can show you is your self that hides you from you and pretends to hide you from Him. And point out the way to love's door, which you must follow yourself, which is the way to Him." (from The Teaching: The Face of Love by Phil Blecker.)