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#makingof #documentary #TheLocationist
Watch the movie: https://www.filmsbygeorgia.com/watch-the-locationist

As a late bloomer in film and in life, all I think about is how to have more fun when it comes to work, especially when everything seems impossible or awfully hard. If it doesn’t feel like playing, something isn’t right.

Making my first longer film was the adventure I’ve been waiting for ages. It reminded me of the first time I fell in love. I was 16 and nothing made me feel more alive. Making it a drama-comedy was quite a personal performance, as humor never came naturally to me in writing and creating. Everything was always so hard and brutal that I ended up taking life too seriously. Until I reached 40 and I didn’t.

I played with a lot of ideas during the making of "The Locationist” dramedy. Making it in the English language with Romanian actors was one thing. Making a feminine movie with a predominant crew of women was another. Turning it from a 15-minute short into a 40-minute proof of concept for a web series pilot was another. Shooting it in 3 days with a gang of 10, learning new sets of skills I never thought I will learn to see it assembled, making mistakes, and trying various ways out during pandemic and game changing were different journeys.

The documentary is not just a landmark in the story of my life as a filmmaker in a crazy world or just a look into our lives on set, it also completes the movie with more information about the characters, real stories inspired from my own life experience and from the old days when I worked as a locations scouter in film productions, a very challenging job when it comes to human interactions.

I hope you’ll have fun with us while watching the film and its production documentary, but mostly I hope it will remind you of your passions and of the things you love and matter for you the most :)