such as at the Cannes Film Festival, at the American Film Market (AFM), at the Montreal One World Film Festival and more, and it will be available on line; The subjects of the articles will always be original in art, business and entertainment. Regarding subjects in film, the magazine will be oriented to the discovery and presentation of new talents; The title of the magazine will be DARIA! and Daria Trifu will be the Editor in Chief. These were the starting points; some of them changed in time, but most of them are still guiding our publishing choices today. This is how we commenced our publishing adventure: we contracted journalists from Canada, the USA, the UK and Mexico, and we decided to publish the first issue as soon as we were back from Africa, after the shooting of Punctured Hope. One of the more challenging new facts was to be able to match the deadlines of our film productions with the magazine’s. This was especially difficult for Daria who was taking care of the whole organization necessary to arrive to the moment of publishing. I had much less to do and everything I was doing for the magazine was for me more a pleasure than a job. Here is how I created the first cover of Daria!, 15 years ago:
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