US Kogainon Films works on documentary about Dacians and Romans, wants to promote Romania through film

Kogainon Films, a US-based media production company set up by film director Nicholas Dimancescu (in picture), plans to continue a series of documentaries focusing on Romania, after having released two documentaries about Romania in the world wars. The production company will release a documentary about Romanian ancestors Dacians and Romans, hoping to bring a fresh story line which would change the old fashion view of Romanians' ancestors, Nicholas Dimancescu tells Romania-Insider.com. He hopes to finish works on this documentary by the end of this year. The documentary "Trajan's Column: Emperor vs King", currently in production, explores the Roman Emperor's six-year long two-campaigns against Dacia -modern-day Romania- and its king Decebalus between 101 and 106 AD. The film centers on Trajan's column in Rome, a UNESCO Heritage Site, and its basrelief depictions combined with illustrations by artist Radu Oltean and contemporary on-location footage, creating an artistic interpretation of the events and covering on-going archaeological research. Kogainon Film- the company's name stems from the name of the sacred Dacian mountain Kogaion- plans to set up a film production company in Romania as well and tap into the passionate, local creative talent, according to Dimancescu. One of the potential areas of work would be promoting places in Romania to filmmakers in the US, as Dimancescu believes Romania is an ideal place for film making. His plans are also to start a series of films about various regions of Romania, mostly focusing on rural development, hoping to help promote Romania as a tourist destination. Setting up music festivals in Romania is yet another idea he dallies with. For the future, Nicholas also ponders going into narrative film. Nicholas Dimancescu, a US citizen of Romanian origins, founded the film production house in 2007. 'Hill 789: The Last Stronghold', a documentary about the First World War in Romania was his first full length documentary, which was followed by 'Knights of the Sky',his second directing project. Nicholas has also been involved in the 'Ciclovina Cave Project' coordinated by a Romanian team of speleologists and archeologists working to protect cave bear fossils. More about Nicholas Dimancescu here. Corina Saceanu, corina@romania-insider.com