Hi! We are shooting a TRAVEL DOCUMENTARY series to the BALKANS for STEEMIT!

Hello Steemians!

Thank you so much for the warm welcome in this wonderful community.

We are Alessandro and Elena - two documentary filmmakers from Italy and Germany. We never thought that we could make a good team due to our clashing work ethics - but until now, it works great.

When @soldier, @sirwinchester, @timsaid, @sandroieva, @mrs.steemit told us about this community, we soon realised that this can be a fabulous place for our new travel documentary series. We are going to share it with you, and with no one else.Here, we feel less bound to conventional ways of storytelling. Unlike when we produce for television, we will keep all the failures, awkward moments and funny scenes behind the camera in the film. WE PROMISE! There is no broadcaster breathing down our necks now, so come with us on a real journey on the road. Next destination: the Balkans!

So, this is our story...

Alessandro, the cameraman: you may not believe it but I’m actually Italian. Also when my red beard suggests something else. I was born in Milan into an incredibly loud but very loving family. My father always told me that I could become whatever I wanted. When I revealed to him that I intend to become a Philosopher, he probably regretted his encouraging words.
Refuging into philosophy books was my only way out from the constant noise and never ending drama in my family home. At some point paper was not enough to protect me anymore, so I picked up the camera and started a masters of Documentary Filmmaking in London. There I met Elena, who shared the same dream of mine, turning travelling and filming into a full-time profession.

Elena, the host: I am a real countryside girl. Just to make you understand - my mum used to pick my sister and me up from kindergarten on horseback - this much countryside. The first love of my life was gymnastics. I spent six days a week in the gym, all my friends were there and I just loved how the trampoline made me fly. I went to university in Cologne and Paris where I slowly understood that I wanted to become a documentary filmmaker. But the way there is not easy so I started to work on big TV shows like Dancing with the Stars and the Bachelor. In order to come closer to my dream, I moved to London where I eventually produced my first documentaries.

In this very moment we are editing the film for Steemit. So let us give you an idea about what it’s going to be about. We are travelling for two month through Eastern Europe using only Public Transport and are encountering truly fascinating people with their unheard stories: The Serbian plastic surgeon who gives you the Balkan Look for a cheap price, the lumberjacks in the Carpathian Mountains who live in solitude without any woman around, the magical female choir in Bulgaria who enchanted already the Russian Zar and we spend a day in the Gypsy capital of the World: Shutka. These are just few of the curious personalities we met on the road.

We are so looking forward to posting the first episode. This documentary series will hopefully spark your curiosity and longing for travel, overall to off the track destinations and not very comfortable routes. The Balkans are synonym of trouble, magic, vampire watermelons (we will surely explain that later) and so much more.

Any questions, propositions, advices about future destinations are more then appreciated. We are here to confront ourselves with you about EVERYTHING. In case you want to embrace this lifestyle, capture great footage, travel on a budget, found a new country (yes, we witness to that, just stay tuned and you will see!) then we are happy to share our very personal recipes to achieve that! And please instruct us on how to be good Steemers and how to make use of this platform to the fullest, because we are newbies here...