ANDREEA

I am blessed to do a wonderful job. I am talent agent. Everyone has heroes, people whose creative acts have inspired. Now, my heroes are my young artists, creators,thinkers, the new generation of talents. I am in love.
on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1408069/
My precious project
THE FALL by TARSEM with Catinca Untaru
I changed my life completely when I discovered Catinca, an adorable little girl who gives me everyday a vision of happiness.
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"The Fall is a rare, uncategorisable achievement".
Tim Robey [email protected] http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk
The Fall is a delirious juggling act of a film, a globe-trotting, independently-produced period fantasy shot in 26 countries and put together with a style, ambition and constantly roving compositional eye typical of its creator Tarsem, the pop video veteran who made his Hollywood debut with The Cell (2000).There are similarities to Pan's Labyrinth, another fable unfolding from a young girl's point of view that's emphatically not for children. To pick one of Tarsem's more lurid spectacles, I'd love to see what non-German 14-year-olds make of his twirling corpse chandelier. He makes the Guillermo del Toro film look like cramped, primitive cave-painting with the sheer breadth of his canvas, but he's also much more rigorous and ambitious in the ways he allows his twinned worlds to collide and inform each other.Fantasy is not a darkly escapist realm here but a picturesque one of pain and denial, a mock-epic parallel universe perilously vulnerable to the whims and sadness of its narrator, a crippled silent-era Hollywood stuntman called Roy Walker (Lee Pace).Tarsem waited 12 years to shoot The Fall because he was waiting for the right child actor to listen to Roy's odd, threadbare adventure yarn, and to make us believe that he or she had the imagination to transform it into something majestic, mountain-scaled, screen-filling.
For all the praise young Ivana Baquero got for playing Pan's Labyrinth's Ofelia, her fans ain't seen nothing yet: The Fall's Catinca Untaru, a chubby, gurgling little thing from Romania who'd never acted before, gives one of the most magically peculiar and affectingly childlike child performances I've ever seen.
If Tarsem gets stigmatised in the future, as he was somewhat unfairly for The Cell, with being more MTV imagist than proper film director, this performance - as much the result of his own on-set patience and coaxing as Untaru's natural expressiveness - can be whisked into evidence as a clinching defence. She's just astounding.
Tarsem about making of THE FALL - Best Picture,Festival de Sitges 2007
Tarsem Singh: “El cine me permite jugar con la fantasía de la mente”
Entre su ópera prima, “The Cell”, y segunda película, “The Fall”, han pasado nada menos que seis años. ¿Tan complicada ha resultado la gestión de su segundo filme?
"Lo cierto es que estuve mucho tiempo pensando “The Fall”. Y más que por el hecho de haberme topado con problemas, si el rodaje se alargó tanto fue por lo complicado del proyecto. La protagonista de “The Fall” es una niña pequeña y quería encontrar la actriz perfecta para este papel porque el filme se construye a través de su imaginación. No fue fácil encontrarla y perdimos mucho tiempo buscándola hasta que encontramos a Catinca Untaru... en Rumania. Una vez la hallamos empezamos a rodar lo más rápidamente posible pero el hecho de que la película esté ambientada en 28 países -¡28 países, que no localizaciones!- también extendió el rodaje"
The Fall - press Copyright: Roadside Attractions
CATINCA UNTARU (Alexandria) Catinca was born in Bucharest, Romania on March 21st, 1997, the only one child of Untaru family. When she was three years old she confessed to her grandparents that she would like to became a theatre actress waiting for people to give her flowers on a stage. From the early age she was fascinated by fantasy stories and legends. She started to take English lessons at the age of 4 and her teacher, a former Romanian flight attendant , noticed her interest and started to tell her stories about countries and customs to keep her focused. Sooner she was talking English with different accents.
She ran against hundreds of children from all over the world for the part, she didn’t fit the initial character’s description and she almost didn’t make it to her airplane. These were just a few of the obstacles that Catinca Untaru had to overcome in order to become Alexandria, the main character in Tarsem Singh’s “The Fall”. Some might see her story a Romanian mission impossible but for Catinca it was all in a day’s, or better said, in two years’ work.It is said that when you are on a mission, the whole Universe conspires for your success. If this is the case, then it was clearly Catinca Untaru’s mission to become the first Romanian child to star in a international film. Right from the start, her discovery has consisted of a series of fortunate coincidences. At first, it was the recommendation of one of her former teachers that lead talent agent Andreea Tanasescu to her. Then, an incredible audition with the director of “the Cell,” Tarsem Singh during which Catinca managed to switch back and forth between reality and fantasy without the slightest degree of effort. Catinca managed to convince Tarsem that she was the right child for the part of Alexandria. Finally, one day before she was scheduled to leave for South Africa and everybody thought everything was going smoothly, Catinca and her mother had to get new visas for South Africa from neighboring Hungary. People were rushed in and out of Romania in order to get the new visas but, in the end, everything turned out fine.
With quite a serious face for a 10 year old, Untaru says that she enjoyed filming for “the Fall” and that her favorite part of the whole experience have been the costumes designed by Oscar award winner Eiko Ishioka. At one point, there was a hint of jealousy on Catinca’s behalf because of one of her stand in’s- Emma- costume, a long wavy skirt but it was soon forgotten in the thrill of the shoot.Since the whole script was never revealed to Catinca, as she started shooting for “the Fall” she was constantly kept on her toes, her interest alert, about the story. She thus managed to become an active part of the action. Ruxandra, Catinca’s mother recalls that she would be Catinca in her hotel apartment but would immediately switch to Alexandria when she was the set.
Catinca says that being a part of the cast of “the Fall” allowed her to see countries and learn about customs. Something she would have never been able to do had she not been a part of the Fall. As the shooting took place in more than 20 locations around the world, Catinca was most impressed with India. Upon her return in Romania, she said, “India is like a beautiful woman whose eyes you can’t see.” Questioned further about her statement, Catinca said, “…you can only see its eyes when you get to know it better.”Although quite mature for her age, Catinca still enjoys playing with her dolls and, most of all her friends. When she was filming for “the Fall”, her biggest wish was to come back home and be able to play with her friends whom she was missing dearly. She likes to read books, to write stories and maybe to do movies in one day. Now, almost 3 years after filming ended, Catinca goes to school and is head of class. She says that her biggest adventure, actually her self- titled “mission impossible” has been taking the grade register from the teacher’s lounge to her class when her English teacher asked her to.Catinca’s career is a group effort to say the least, and changes the lives of all who are involved. It is nothing short of love and passion that keep it all going! Currently she is working in a Romanian experimental media project called “10” where a group of kids are planning to do a movie. It is a mix of reality and fantasy production inspired from her story.
Moriarty’s One Thing I Love Today! Catinca Untaru In THE FALL And The Art Of Directing Children
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36407

Moriarty’s One Thing I Love Today! Catinca Untaru In THE FALL And The Art Of Directing Children
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36407

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