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Interviews  in the newspaper  “Ultima ora” (1997-2002)

Interview with Livia Nita Bonansea, business women ,director of Bonansea Company of Torino : "A women in the mirrors"  Torino, 2000 diffused TV.

Interview with Enzo Gribaudo, sculptor, editor, plastic artist Turin ,(Born in Turin,1929.Lives and works in Turin, Italy) 2001 diffused Romanian broadcast  TV.

Interview with the writer Guy Pariseau, Edmonton (Canada) 2001 diffused TV. and with his wife, the ballerina Margareta Zirra

Interview with Christine van Saanen, Toronto (Canada) 2001diffused TV.

Interview with the writer Gratien Allière, Toronto (Canada) 2001 diffused  TV.

Interview with the writer Margaret Anderson, Toronto (Canada) diffused TV

"The charm of a world"
it is the title of a series of emissions proposed by the   writer Cleopatra Lorintiu

interview carried out by Florenta Talmaciu in the newspaper "Ultima ora" (from Romania) director Ion Marin , February 6, 2001

"It is a lack of artistic documentary "
Declare Cleopatra Lorintiu

F Talmaciu: About which "world" you speak in your emission?
Cleopatra Lorintiu: They are... several worlds! The world of surprising connections or the meetings meetings, the world interior and attractive, magnetic, the world of the exceptionally personalities, essential for the Romanian culture, the world of the memories, the memories not revealed yet.

F.Talmaciu: We know that you falld in love with documentary. Is there a relationship to the fact that you are a poet and novelist?
Cleopatra Lorintiu: Undoubtedly. I liked each film which I made, or for saying differently, each emission was a possible book, a virtual book.

F.Talmaciu. Speak us please , about your plans for the future.
Cleopatra Lorintiu. The season starts with "The Canadian diary ", two films non conformist put under the sign of the "Camera Pen", as said an important  writer... The documentary one represents the newspaper full with surprises from a travel  made with research with a history with friendships in which you will find the ballerina Margareta Zirra, Ileana Iliescu, the Canadian writer Guy Pariseau, Christinne van Saanen, also of the new declarations of the large choreographer Gabriel Popescu, as well as the memory of the Apostu sculptor who was the friend of the Pariseau family.

You will see a history full with tenderness and friendship, place, meetings, at the end of which the idea which remainder is that the friendship is essential!
I hold have to thank with your newspaper and particularly have your director, for your support during the last four years which, were particularly difficult for me as director.

Florenta Talmaciu: You often evoke the concept of "camera pen”. Why?
Cleopatra Lorintiu: Because for both film ("Canadian Newspaper") it is me which made turning, therefore I sign the scenario, the comments, the reading of text and the image, I liked to do everything like a small film of author.

Florenta Talmaciu. And here is my last question: Each writer has his pride: to see his books in the library. As a writer which makes television, what you could dream?
Which is the pride of the tv producer? To bee seen on the tv screen?


Cleopatra Lorintiu: Non, at all! I do not want to be present myself. I want to be testifies it, I want to accumulate information, words, memories, I would like to have a "media library" full with the presences, testimonies of this moment in which many the values are forgotten, destroyed or erased; without minimizing the work of the others, me I believe that this kind of "marvellous storage" can remain after us. The interminable discussions and the sterile debates, are that dust... The others, which will come after us undoubtedly will erase them!
(6 February 2001)


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