Daria Trifu
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Casting Director
Daria Trifu was born in Brasov, Romania and emigrated to Canada in 1999. In Europe she studied fine arts and held private exhibitions of her paintings since the age of 15. Her artwork was commissioned by prestigious hotels in the mountain resort of Poiana Brasov.
In her youth, Daria Trifu excelled in sports such as tennis and skiing and won numerous competitions; she traveled the world both with her family and on her own as a performer in a national choir attending international festivals.
Long before she emigrated to Canada, she had her eyes set on a career in the film industry. In 2001, in Toronto, she graduated from the International Film Workshops taught by film director Bruno Pischiutta.
Daria was subsequently hired by Pischiutta's production company, Toronto Pictures Inc. She organized the company's marketing campaigns and its participation in film festivals and events such as the Cannes Film Festival, the American Film Market and the Montreal World Film Festival.
In 2003 she was a speaker on the Peacefulfish & Variety Presents Global Film Finance panel in Cannes alongside Barry Poltermann, Claude Fenioux, Jonathan Bing, Christopher R. Auty and Cassian Elwes.
By 2004, she started her own production company, Adhara Properties Inc., and launched her magazine, Daria!. She is a contributing writer and the editor-in-chief of the publication.
With Adhara Properties, she financed and produced the $5.8 million feature film Punctured Hope: A Story About Trokosi and the Young Girls' Slavery in Today's West Africa (2009) (dir. Bruno Pischiutta). After the filming was completed in Ghana, Trifu worked on the film's post-production in Toronto, Canada, which included post-production meetings and studio sessions for editing, score composition, sound mixing and color correction until the final print was in the can.
The film was a critically acclaimed success. The Political Film Society (Hollywood) nominated Punctured Hope as Best Film Exposé and Best Film on Human Rights in 2009 together with other films such as Avatar (2009) (dir. James Cameron), Invictus (2009) (dir. Clint Eastwood) and Inglourious Basterds (2009) (dir. Quentin Tarantino). Puncture Hope was qualified for nomination consideration at the Academy Awards® and it screened in theaters in Los Angeles for three consecutive months during the 2009 awards season. The film was also an Official Selection at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Daria Trifu led many publicity campaigns for her companies, films and ventures. She organized and coordinated the theatrical releases of her films and media calls during award seasons and film festivals. She wrote and released hundreds of press releases and participated to press conferences, talk-shows, radio and TV interviews in the USA, Africa, and Europe. She coordinated the TV coverage provided by Thomson/Reuters for the film Punctured Hope by setting-up interviews with cast members in Ghana and members of the public attending the film's cinema screenings at the Laemmle Theatres on Sunset Boulevard (Hollywood) and in Santa Monica. In Los Angeles, she was invited to organize and hold a private screening of Punctured Hope at the Eastman Kodak Headquarters. In New York City, she organized the private screening of the film at the Friars Club; the event was attended by some of the city's finest film, media and business executives.
Also in New York, Daria was interviewed for ABC Radio by famed host Bill Diehl; the interview, subsequently broadcast on +3,000 syndicated nation-wide radio stations, covered her experience of filming in Africa and the launch of her magazine Daria!. She was also interviewed at the Nasdaq, just after she successfully completed Toronto Pictures Inc.'s public offering on the OTC Market. More recently, she was featured on one of the giant multi-media screens in Times Square, presenting the Global Nonviolent Film Festival.
In 2014 Daria Trifu walked the catwalk as a guest of honor alongside Marla Maple for a fashion charity event held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Her magazine, Daria!, has proven to last the test of time: first published in 2005, it is still going strong today. Originally available in print as a laminated coffee-table publication, it was distributed for 10 years in thousands of copies at high class events, luxury clubs, hotels and film festivals worldwide. It was distributed during private events in Monte Carlo, New York City, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Brasov, Last Vegas, and Cannes. Since 2012, the magazine is the official media partner and it provides full coverage of the Global Nonviolent Film Festival. In 2022, it let go to its printed version and it became an on-line publication available at DariaMagazine.com.
Daria Trifu and Bruno Pischiutta founded the Global Nonviolent Film Festival in 2012 in order to bring to an international audience the best films and documentaries made in the world each year that do not contain gratuitous violence. To this day, Trifu serves as the festival director. Recognized as 'the most important and renown nonviolent film festival in the world', the annual event is broadcast at GlobalNonviolentFilmFestival.com. Since 2016, she is the co-host of the daily video presentations and of the awards show at the Global Nonviolent Film Festival; she is also the video editor of the 11 annual half-hour presentations and of the hour-long annual awards show that are broadcast during the event.
In 2012 Trifu produced the feature documentary Brasov: Probably the Best City in the World (2012) (dir. Bruno Pischiutta), about her home city in Romania. The documentary was shot during a span of 12 months in order to showcase the city in all four seasons. She and Bruno Pischiutta were the guests of honor at the Semana de Cine Rumano in Havana, Cuba, invited by Plenipotentiary Romanian Ambassador to Cuba, Dr. Dumitru Preda. The screening of the documentary, in world premiere, was attended by the top media and film personalities of the country and it was followed by a press conference.
In 2015 Trifu wrote an original story and a treatment for a film. The treatment was developed by Bruno Pischiutta into a motion picture screenplay. The film is part of Global Film Studio's slate and is in development for production.
In 2021, Trifu and Pischiutta launched Global Film Studio's streaming channel for nonviolent films available on-line at GlobalCinema.online. With Trifu at the helm of the company's new Division, the channel grew its catalog of films to more than 200 titles in less than two years, and it continues to add new content on a weekly basis. She is the author of the company's popular e-Newsletter that features the channel's new releases and is sent weekly to +20,000 subscribers.
A fine-artist at heart, Trifu is credited with the design of many promotional and marketing materials for the company and its films, as well as with the design of the award trophies and several official posters of the Global Nonviolent Film Festival.
The highly anticipated film project written and directed by Bruno Pischiutta, tentatively entitled The Trilogy, consists of three sequential major motion pictures and three documentaries. This is a Hollywood-standard major production that will see Daria Trifu wearing many hats: she will produce the six films, will direct the three documentaries and make her acting debut in one of the three features. The project is in the final stages of pre-production, it will be filmed in London, UK and in Greece, and is announced for a 2024 release that will commence with its world premiere on Global Film Studio's streaming channel at GlobalCinema.online and will be followed with a worldwide commercial cinema release.
Daria Trifu's other film credits include: assistant director of the feature film Maybe (2003), that was an Official Selection at the Bahamas One World Film Festival and received The Visionary In Film Award for director Bruno Pischiutta, producer and executive producer of the documentary Bruno Pischiutta Film Director (2012), and executive producer of the English versions of the feature films The Comoedia (1981) and Ultimo incontro a Venezia (1980) (dir. Bruno Pischiutta).
In her youth, Daria Trifu excelled in sports such as tennis and skiing and won numerous competitions; she traveled the world both with her family and on her own as a performer in a national choir attending international festivals.
Long before she emigrated to Canada, she had her eyes set on a career in the film industry. In 2001, in Toronto, she graduated from the International Film Workshops taught by film director Bruno Pischiutta.
Daria was subsequently hired by Pischiutta's production company, Toronto Pictures Inc. She organized the company's marketing campaigns and its participation in film festivals and events such as the Cannes Film Festival, the American Film Market and the Montreal World Film Festival.
In 2003 she was a speaker on the Peacefulfish & Variety Presents Global Film Finance panel in Cannes alongside Barry Poltermann, Claude Fenioux, Jonathan Bing, Christopher R. Auty and Cassian Elwes.
By 2004, she started her own production company, Adhara Properties Inc., and launched her magazine, Daria!. She is a contributing writer and the editor-in-chief of the publication.
With Adhara Properties, she financed and produced the $5.8 million feature film Punctured Hope: A Story About Trokosi and the Young Girls' Slavery in Today's West Africa (2009) (dir. Bruno Pischiutta). After the filming was completed in Ghana, Trifu worked on the film's post-production in Toronto, Canada, which included post-production meetings and studio sessions for editing, score composition, sound mixing and color correction until the final print was in the can.
The film was a critically acclaimed success. The Political Film Society (Hollywood) nominated Punctured Hope as Best Film Exposé and Best Film on Human Rights in 2009 together with other films such as Avatar (2009) (dir. James Cameron), Invictus (2009) (dir. Clint Eastwood) and Inglourious Basterds (2009) (dir. Quentin Tarantino). Puncture Hope was qualified for nomination consideration at the Academy Awards® and it screened in theaters in Los Angeles for three consecutive months during the 2009 awards season. The film was also an Official Selection at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Daria Trifu led many publicity campaigns for her companies, films and ventures. She organized and coordinated the theatrical releases of her films and media calls during award seasons and film festivals. She wrote and released hundreds of press releases and participated to press conferences, talk-shows, radio and TV interviews in the USA, Africa, and Europe. She coordinated the TV coverage provided by Thomson/Reuters for the film Punctured Hope by setting-up interviews with cast members in Ghana and members of the public attending the film's cinema screenings at the Laemmle Theatres on Sunset Boulevard (Hollywood) and in Santa Monica. In Los Angeles, she was invited to organize and hold a private screening of Punctured Hope at the Eastman Kodak Headquarters. In New York City, she organized the private screening of the film at the Friars Club; the event was attended by some of the city's finest film, media and business executives.
Also in New York, Daria was interviewed for ABC Radio by famed host Bill Diehl; the interview, subsequently broadcast on +3,000 syndicated nation-wide radio stations, covered her experience of filming in Africa and the launch of her magazine Daria!. She was also interviewed at the Nasdaq, just after she successfully completed Toronto Pictures Inc.'s public offering on the OTC Market. More recently, she was featured on one of the giant multi-media screens in Times Square, presenting the Global Nonviolent Film Festival.
In 2014 Daria Trifu walked the catwalk as a guest of honor alongside Marla Maple for a fashion charity event held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Her magazine, Daria!, has proven to last the test of time: first published in 2005, it is still going strong today. Originally available in print as a laminated coffee-table publication, it was distributed for 10 years in thousands of copies at high class events, luxury clubs, hotels and film festivals worldwide. It was distributed during private events in Monte Carlo, New York City, Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, Brasov, Last Vegas, and Cannes. Since 2012, the magazine is the official media partner and it provides full coverage of the Global Nonviolent Film Festival. In 2022, it let go to its printed version and it became an on-line publication available at DariaMagazine.com.
Daria Trifu and Bruno Pischiutta founded the Global Nonviolent Film Festival in 2012 in order to bring to an international audience the best films and documentaries made in the world each year that do not contain gratuitous violence. To this day, Trifu serves as the festival director. Recognized as 'the most important and renown nonviolent film festival in the world', the annual event is broadcast at GlobalNonviolentFilmFestival.com. Since 2016, she is the co-host of the daily video presentations and of the awards show at the Global Nonviolent Film Festival; she is also the video editor of the 11 annual half-hour presentations and of the hour-long annual awards show that are broadcast during the event.
In 2012 Trifu produced the feature documentary Brasov: Probably the Best City in the World (2012) (dir. Bruno Pischiutta), about her home city in Romania. The documentary was shot during a span of 12 months in order to showcase the city in all four seasons. She and Bruno Pischiutta were the guests of honor at the Semana de Cine Rumano in Havana, Cuba, invited by Plenipotentiary Romanian Ambassador to Cuba, Dr. Dumitru Preda. The screening of the documentary, in world premiere, was attended by the top media and film personalities of the country and it was followed by a press conference.
In 2015 Trifu wrote an original story and a treatment for a film. The treatment was developed by Bruno Pischiutta into a motion picture screenplay. The film is part of Global Film Studio's slate and is in development for production.
In 2021, Trifu and Pischiutta launched Global Film Studio's streaming channel for nonviolent films available on-line at GlobalCinema.online. With Trifu at the helm of the company's new Division, the channel grew its catalog of films to more than 200 titles in less than two years, and it continues to add new content on a weekly basis. She is the author of the company's popular e-Newsletter that features the channel's new releases and is sent weekly to +20,000 subscribers.
A fine-artist at heart, Trifu is credited with the design of many promotional and marketing materials for the company and its films, as well as with the design of the award trophies and several official posters of the Global Nonviolent Film Festival.
The highly anticipated film project written and directed by Bruno Pischiutta, tentatively entitled The Trilogy, consists of three sequential major motion pictures and three documentaries. This is a Hollywood-standard major production that will see Daria Trifu wearing many hats: she will produce the six films, will direct the three documentaries and make her acting debut in one of the three features. The project is in the final stages of pre-production, it will be filmed in London, UK and in Greece, and is announced for a 2024 release that will commence with its world premiere on Global Film Studio's streaming channel at GlobalCinema.online and will be followed with a worldwide commercial cinema release.
Daria Trifu's other film credits include: assistant director of the feature film Maybe (2003), that was an Official Selection at the Bahamas One World Film Festival and received The Visionary In Film Award for director Bruno Pischiutta, producer and executive producer of the documentary Bruno Pischiutta Film Director (2012), and executive producer of the English versions of the feature films The Comoedia (1981) and Ultimo incontro a Venezia (1980) (dir. Bruno Pischiutta).
Known for
Producer
Second Unit or Assistant Director
Casting Director
More to explore
Add demo reel with IMDbPro
How much have you seen?
Keep track of how much of Daria Trifu’s work you have seen. Go to your list.
