A Message From Marina

Hello,

I am Marina Rasnoveanu, the Romanian screenwriter of "Meet Me in the Park". First of all I would want to tell you that everyone who has a dream should watch this movie, because it is the proof that wishes come true. This is "Meet Me in the Park" for me: a hope turned into reality.

I started writing since childhood but only last summer I had the idea of starting writing scripts. Then I realized that in our world you get to someone’s heart easier through images and words. Maybe a book is more romantic, when you read a paper book, not an e-book, you have certain magic feelings, but we should accept the fact that nowadays people are not so willing to read.

As far as my education or studies in the writing field I must say I graduated Letters and Sciences University from my town, Ploiesti, and I didn’t attend any writing courses. This field is not so developed in Romania so everything I learned was from the internet. That was the way I found Brad Ferrell. He post an add on Craiglist and I sent him a CV and a logline. After reading my script he agreed on directing it.

Even if I am so far away, in Romania, our co-operation is perfect and I am sure the movie will be a success. Brad tells me how the things are going and we talk about the scenes and emotions one should bring to the viewer.

I know there are some who believe that a script should be written based on what you know, based on reality, but I belong the category that thinks a movie should make us dream, should make us see the story of life. After watching a movie a viewer should remain with some thoughts or feelings. I hope this impact will have "Meet Me in the Park".

I should tell you how I start writing this script. Last fall I was watching a program about drug addicts and a young man phoned to talk about his experience. I felt him so sincere and so relieved of letting go that part in his past that I understood somehow the behind meaning of such experience. When you are alone or neglected, confused or sad you do meaningful and stupid things even if you are a good person. From that event all started but of course when I started writing other elements came to my mind: love, forgiveness, different worlds etc, things that in the end had the same name "Meet Me in the Park".

It is true that I wrote this script so you must think it is my duty to praise it. See the movie and only then you will realize it is about life and about us, about the hidden feelings of thoughts that sometimes are smothered because we might think life is too serious or too hard to let them go, to let them burst.

Marina