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Daniela Lungu, born May 11, 1964 is a Romanian TV producer, director, writer and painter.

EARLY LIFE

Daniela Lungu was born in Calvini (Buzau), Romania on May 11, 1964 in a family of teachers, Constantin and Elisabeta Lungu. She had a younger brother, Justinian Lungu, who also became a good friend of her. She lost him in the fall of 2009. They had a beautiful and adventurous childhood, wondering together in the forests of the neighbourhood and swimming in the river. Their parents took good care of their education and surrounded them with love and kindness. Daniela was always fascinated by woods and nature. The nut tree from their garden is only a few years older than her and was one of her best friends as a child and teenager. She doesn’t miss giving the tree a hug everytime she goes back home.

EDUCATION

Daniela respected her parents wish and went to the nursing high-school between 1978- 1982. Her debut as a writer was in her teenagehood when she wrote the novel Apricot flower (Floare de cais) inspired from academic life. The novel won the second prize in the contest of literary creation for students, Young quills (Tinere condeie). After she failed a few times to become a student at the Faculty of Medicine, she decided to have a family life and married the man who was going to be her husband for 13 years as well as the father of her two daughters. Later on it was the time for her to follow on one of her biggest dreams. In 1999 she started to study at The Faculty of Film and Television Directing at the Hyperion University, Bucharest. Some of her professors were Dr. Mircea Dragan, a reputed Romanian film director and Dr. Vasilica Istrate, who taught script writing.

CAREER

Television

The activity in television started while still in university, first as a cultural editor at Antena 1. She worked as a TV shows producer, artistic director, copywriter and advertising producer, head of department promo On Air at several private televisions in Bucharest (Prima TV, Realitatea TV, Kanal D, National TV, N24, Favorit TV, B1TV). She produced the TV shows:

Medical hour (Ora medicala) –Realitatea TV (Reality TV)

Train of life (Trenul vietii)- talk show TV- B1TV

ARTTELE – fine arts show - B1TV

Doctor B1 – medical show – B1TV

Literature

Daniela Lungu wrote the novel The demonized colony (Colonia cu demoni) inspired from a fabulous personal experience she had while visiting a village in Suceava (northern Romanian city) for a documentary film she was preparing for RTL Munchen in 2002. That place was a colony where possessed people lived and Daniela decided to spend almost three weeks with them, in a common attempt to find God. The idea of this novel developed in her heart and she knew she had to confess about all she saw and understood while living there. Three quarters of the novel were written in a month and then she postponed for a year and a half. Daniela considers providential the fact that she accidentally met, after many years, her former Romanian language teacher in  secondary school, Cornelia Birea. She and her husband, the engineer Nicolae Birea were the ones who persuaded Daniela to keep on working on the novel and eventually finish it. Right now, Daniela works on a different book about alternative medicine based on the therapeutic virtues of the Tibetan argyle www.argila-algo.ro. Mircea Bocan from Alba Iulia has been studied and worked with argyle for over 12 years now and was invited in a few of Daniela Lungu’s medical TV shows. Mircea convinced her about the miracle this natural product makes and she had a chance to test it on herself. Even if Daniela doesn’t believe in panacea, the results of a treatment with argyle are amazing in digestive, liver, intestines and kidney problems. In many cases, the argyle gave, due to its properties, good results in early cancers, as well as toxines and cancer cells absorbtion. Daniela has her own blog www.danielalungu.com where she posts opinions, literary creations, naturist and integrative medicine articles and also poems and short prose. Her blog has a great rating.

Painting

Daniela started painting in 2010 after spending some time filming in museums and art galleries for a TV show project. She never took painting lessons, except for 4 or 5 times when she was a child, from two older friends who were studying painting at that time. Her central theme is the angels; Daniela strongly believes in a parallel world with angels and saints, ready to help us in our travel through this world, as Arsenie Boca said: "Make angels work!" ("Puneti ingerii la treaba!") - rely on them and ask for their assistance.

Personal life

Daniela was married for 13 years and has two daughters.

Personal believes

As far as her artistic creation is concerned, Daniela Lungu is convinced she is only the instrument through which a poem, a book or a painting gets done. As she stands in front of the easel with no initial plan and just starts painting, after she draws a first line, then a second and so on, a shape starts to appear and the colours are brought together; this is the moment when the whole story starts. The same thing happens for Daniela when she writes something. She doesn’t believe herself to be the creator of all this work, for which she is grateful and feels blessed.