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Showing posts with label Clara Pasieka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clara Pasieka. Show all posts

Friday, May 31, 2013

Statistici Blogger

Mi-am facut un obicei ca o data pe an sa scriu un articol in care sa analizez statisticile blogului meu – cuvintele cheie care ii aduc pe cititorii mei pe blog, surse de trafic, de unde provin cititorii mei, si alte componente ale statisticilor Blogger. In anii precedenti, adica in 2011 si 2012, faceam asta la inceputul anului; dar anul acesta tot n-am gasit timpul potrivit pentru a scrie acest articol (caci mereu apareau alte subiecte mai fierbinti despre care vroiam sa scriu), incat m-a apucat luna mai si de-abia acum am ocazia sa scriu articolul anual despre statistici.

Daca e sa compar statisticile din acest an cu cele din anii precedenti, observ atat diferente cat si asemanari, si in felul acesta imi dau seama ce ii intereseaza mai mult pe cititorii mei cand ajung pe blogul meu.

Iata si unele din cuvintele cheie pe care le-am descoperit in statisticile blogului “Fashion, Style, Beauty and More” in ultimul an (voi reda ortografia lor exacta, cu exceptia majusculelor de rigoare), si la ce articole au ajuns cititorii mei atunci cand au cautat aceste informatii.

Bijuterii si accesorii – am scris foarte multe articole dedicate atat bijuteriilor, cat si accesoriilor in general. Cei doi termeni, “bijuterii” si “accesorii”, sunt unele din cele mai frecvente taguri pe blogul meu. Multe din articolele mele despre bijuterii si accesorii sunt dedicate colectiilor Swarovski, si sunt convinsa ca cei care au folosit aceste cuvinte cheie au gasit pe blog numeroase articole despre brandul de bijuterii Swarovski. 

Bijuterii Swarosvski – un cuvant cheie similar cu cel de mai sus, care probabil i-a adus pe cititorii mei la aceeasi categorie de articole.

Lovely crystals – avand in vedere ca majoritatea bijuteriilor Swarovski sunt de cristal, acest cuvant cheie i-a adus pe cititorii mei la articolele despre Swarovski.

Butoniere barbati – un numar de articole de pe blog sunt dedicate modei pentru barbati, iar in ce priveste “butoniere barbati”, am scris despre colectiile Swarovski pentru barbati, care includ si butoni (sau butoniere). 

Bratari Swarovski barbati – am publicat articole despre colectiile pentru barbati Swarovski, care cuprindeau si bratari.

Ochelari Swarovski, ochelari de soare Swarovski toate modelele, ochelari de soare Swarovski Bianca – aceste cuvinte cheie sunt destul de “la tinta”, am scris in ultimul an despre ochelari Swarovski, ceea ce inseamna ca cititorii mei au gasit exact ceea ce cautau.

The Sound That Broke the Silence este un film de scurt metraj care a fost prezentat anul acesta la ReelWorld Film Festival din Toronto care a avut loc luna trecuta, si pe care l-am mentionat intr-un articol din  martie 2013.

Clara Pasieka – este vorba de actrita canadiana Clara Pasieka pe care am cunoscut-o prima oara anul acesta in martie, in cadrul unei conferinte de presa pentru ReelWorld Film Festival 2013. In timpul acelei conferinte am facut un interviu cu Clara si am publicat un articol despre unul din filmele ei – actrita a participat cu doua filme de scurt metraj la acest festival. Un alt articol pe care l-am scris despre Clara Pasieka in decursul acestei luni este despre un alt film de scurt metraj de-al sau, Pretty Thing, cu care actrita a participat la festivalul de film Cannes care a avut loc luna aceasta.

10 lucruri de stiut cand te muti la casa noua – nu am scris niciodata vreun articol de tip “How to” despre mutarea la casa noua, dar in schimb am scris un articol in ianuarie 2012 despre propria mea experienta atunci cand eu insami m-am mutat la noua mea casa unde locuiesc acum.

Alexa Vega heels – in martie 2012 am publicat un articol despre Alexa Vega, dar nu despre pantofii pe care i-a purtat, ci despre in brand de bijuterii, Renee Sheppard.

Comenzi online Victoria’s Secret, cum cumperi de le Victoria Secret – nu am scris despre cum sa faci comenzi online VS, dar in schimb am scris cateva articole despre prorpiile mele experiente de shopping la Victoria’s Secret.

Thrift shop Bucuresti – n-am scris despre magazine de acest gen din Bucuresti, dar in schimb am scris mai multe articole despre thift shopping la Toronto.

Carti Sohie Kinsella – scriu pe blog si despre carti, si am scris pana acum mai multe articole despre Sohie Kinsella si cartile ei.

Cascade Romania – n-am scris niciodata despre cascade din Romania, dar in schimb am scris despre Cascada Niagara.

Masini de teren – nu-mi aduc aminte sa fi scris vreodata despre acest subiect, dar daca cititorii au ajuns pe blogul meu folosind acest cuvant cheie, probabil ca am mentionat “masini de tren” intr-un articol sau altul. 

Statisticile imi arata unele din cuvinte cheie pe care le-am gasit si anii precedenti, cum ar fi urmatoarele:

Hello Kitty, bijuterii Swarovski Hello Kitty, accesorii Hello Kitty, magazin Swarovski Hello Kitty;
Cascada Niagara, Niagara pentru prima oara;
Le Chateau dresses;
Poze cu dovlecei de Halloween;
Lipstick Jungle;
Black dress;
Fashion style.

De asemenea, cititorii cauta direct blogul meu – am gasit cuvinte cheie fashionstylebeautyandmore.blogspot.com sau www.fashionstylebeautyandmore.blogspot.com.

Conform statisticilor, cititorii mei provin din Romania, Canada, Statele Unite, Rusia, Germania, Moldova, Olanda, Marea Britanie, Franta, Italia, si alte tari.

Friday, May 17, 2013

Clara Pasieka and her new film at Cannes Film Festival 2013

Cannes is no doubt one of the most important film festivals in the world, and to any artist it is a real honor to be there. This year’s Cannes Film Festival started on May 15th and will be closed on May 26th.

Clara Pasieka, a Toronto based actress, writer and filmmaker, co-chair of Young Emerging Actors Assembly (YEAA), is going to Cannes with her new short film Pretty Thing, a drama in which she plays the leading female role. The film will premiere at Cannes this Monday, May 20th, at 1.30pm. The short drama Pretty Thing is not one of the 10 films competing for the Palme d’Or (no Canadian films are this year), but Canada is certainly being represented in the out of competition screenings. Pretty Thing is part of “Canada: Talent Tout Court”, a program that Telefilm pushed for so more Canadian stories would be reaching more international players and audiences.

Pretty Thing is an imaginative short film following the erratic memories of an old man and the unhappy reality about the girl he loved. Lewis reflects on last moments and broken truths surrounding the butterflies escaped from the mouth of the girl who got away.

The directors and the script writers of Pretty Thing are Matthew Defilippis and Elisa Mirabelly. Clara Pasieka’s co-stars in this film are Nicholas Markesnis and John A. Petitti. The directors, the producers, one of the actor leads and Clara Pasieka herself are all really young, under 30.

Clara Pasieka says about this fiction film: “Most of the film is told through its vivid imagery, including a beautiful shot where memories of our love story play out on my bare back as we lie in bed together. I’m curious how international audiences and distributors will feel about the film. The great thing is, the images communicate in a universal language and I think that the story reads even on mute.” She also shares that this is the first time she has had a film at Cannes. “As actors we often don’t know where our work will go, what life it will have. This venture certainly turned out to be worth it!”, Clara says. After shooting this film with cinematographer Kelly Jeffrey, Clara Pasieka hired him to shoot her own film, Bejide, because she thought he was really special. Bejide, the first short film produced by Clara Pasieka, was featured at ReelWorld Film Festival 2013 in Toronto last month.

Pretty Thing was shot entirely in Ontario, Canada, mostly on a farm in Tottenham, in the middle of winter, mostly outdoors. It was freezing, Clara Pasieka shares. How Canadian! It’s 12 minutes long and it was made in HD, in June 2012. Other festivals where this short film was showcased at were Black Maria Film Festival (Director’s Citation Selection), Spirit Quest Film Festival, WIFT Short Film Showcase.

Clara Pasieka in short film "Pretty Thing"
Photo credit: Courtesy of Alyssa Buttarazzi

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Short films featured at ReelWorld Film Festival 2013

This year’s ReelWorld Film Festival, the festival of the diverse and multicultural films and artists, will take place in Toronto next month, on April 10-14. For 5 days the festival will showcase feature films, documentaries, short films and music videos.

YEAA (Young Emerging Actors Assembly) and ACTRA Toronto will feature nine short films coming from experienced and emerging Canadian artists. The nine short films, which will be screened on Sunday April 14th at Famous Players Theater in Canada Square (Yonge & Eglinton, Toronto), are:

Bejide 
A Man Is a Man Is a Man 
To Hell with Love 
The Change 
The Haircut 
The New Domain 
Audition Day 
The Sound That Broke the Silence 
Getaway Car 

I have had the opportunity to chat with three young artists, filmmakers of two of the above mentioned short films, that participate in this year’s ReelWorld Film Festival – Clara Pasieka (Bejide), Raven Dauda (Bejide) and Richard Young (Audition Day).

Clara Pasieka is the writer, executive producer and actor in the short film Bejide. Raven Dauda is one of the actors in this film as well. Richard Young is the filmmaker of the short film Audition Day, but he also acted in a couple of other short films that will be featured at this year’s RWFF come April.

This is the first screen play for Clara Pasieka. She is an actor, as well as a playwright. Also, it's her first time as a filmmaker, which, she says, is really exciting. But as an actor, she has done a lot of work in theater, film and television.

For Clara, ReelWorld Film Festival is a platform to tell stories that are important to her. She thinks it can be really difficult to find a place where people can hear the stories that emerging filmmakers want to tell – that’s the tricky thing for young filmmakers, to find a festival that would be interested in hearing those stories. Clara has always been interested in writing multicultural plays and screenplays for theater and film. This is a really unique festival, she says, and to her it’s an absolute honor to tell stories that reflect the diversity and multiculturality showcased by this festival.

Raven Dauda has been an actor in Canada for over 20 years now. She shares that she loves the film festivals. She has been a part of Toronto International Film Festival, as well as a part of Sundance Festival; and now, being a part of ReelWorld Film Festival is a real honor for her and she admits she is very excited about it.

Raven thinks that as an actor, primarily in this festival, it’s just wonderful to have this type of support. Canada has a rich pool of talent, so for her being a part of a festival like this helps showcase that, helps showcase the sense of diversity, and allows Canadians to know exactly what our country’s artists have to say.

As Richard Young says, the main scope of this partnership between YEAA and ReelWorld is to give the emerging artists and filmmakers the necessary space to create films and work on them together. All these short films were made by ACTRA members or actors. Richard thinks that in this country Canadian actors need to be true artists and take the reigns of their own career. They cannot wait around for the agent to call them, they need to find a way to create their own works. In this collective of short films Richard and his partners have worked with people who are first time filmmakers. The films are great, but there is a learning process of being an actor, a producer, a writer, and taking back the control of their own career, by saying: “Here’s my voice, I can do it, it’s not as difficult as I thought it was going to be, and I have something to say”. Richard thinks that ReelWorld Film Festival provides that support by giving a voice to the people who want to share their stories.

When I asked the three artists what do they think about the future of the short film in Canada, Clara Pasieka told me that in her opinion the short films are the building blocks for many of filmmakers into creating bigger stories and feature film. But she also thinks that this country needs to pay more attention to short films, because there are a lot of amazing short films in Canada that people don’t see, because they don’t know about them. She says: “We need to start getting Canada watching short films, and we need to do that by featuring short films on television. I think filmmakers are taking some incredible risks and they are telling some incredible stories that they wouldn’t necessarily be able to or have the option to tell these stories in feature long films. So it’s really important we get Canada watch short films – I’m astounded when I see all these amazing Canadian short films from so many talented artists.”
Poster of the film "Bejide" (depicting Raven Dauda and Clara Pasieka), directed by Joel Keller, 
poster design by Sean Kung
For more information on ReelWorld Film Festival, please visit ReelWorld.ca.