Documentary film In search of a happy ending is a socially engaged art project based on friendship. In his work Understanding Movies, Louis Giannetti writes that story is a word of a thousand meanings; to the producer story is property, or better, something that has commercial value, to the screenwriter a script, to the director an art medium, and to the actor an asset. But in this case, the story behind the main character of the documentary is his life. And directing such a story - the life of a living person - is a difficult challenge for the director. How to present it? How much should you show? Where to (not) intervene? It was important to me as the director to stay current in the social context. Working with living matter was dynamic and unpredictable; this unpredictability, the two-edged sword of the documentary film, ultimately contributes to the added value that every director seeks and which materializes in the protagonist's, director's and viewer's emotions which puts all three of them on the same level. As the author of the project, I hope that I succeeded in evoking these emotions.
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