Eva Konstantopoulos's Blog, page 7
March 5, 2016
The Secret's Out: Carbon World Premiere is Resounding Success at Sun Valley Film Festival
Congrats to Christian Lybrook for the premiere of his short film CARBON! I am beyond excited to shoot THERE IS NO ARTHUR in Idaho and come back to the 2017 Sun Valley Film Fest next year. Whoooo.
February 20, 2016
Sun Valley looks beautiful. Is this real?!
Sun Valley looks beautiful. Is this real?!
February 18, 2016
Sun Valley Film Festival Names 2016 Competition Finalists (EXCLUSIVE)
THERE IS NO ARTHUR is a Finalist in the One Potato Film Initiative!
February 6, 2016
Excited for this!
Excited for this!
January 3, 2016
And So It Is
A post-it note I wrote to myself a few years ago and just recently found under the bed. Strange to think I was dreaming on these words this whole time:
STAND UP STRAIGHT.
KEEP CALM. YOU’RE DOING GREAT.
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. THIS IS YOUR LIFE. HOW BRILLIANT IT IS TO BREATHE AND SEE AND SMELL AND TASTE AND TOUCH AND HEAR AND WALK AND RUN AND MOVE AND LIVE AND LIVE AND DANCE AND LIVE.
2016 is my year of free thinking, free action, free thoughts.
I went to this New Year’s Eve party once where we wrote what we wanted to let go of on little pieces of paper and then we made them into cranes and set them on fire and it was beautiful and freeing to release all that was holding us back. Or what we thought was holding us back.
Because in reality, it was all in our heads, wasn’t it? All the pain. All the regret. All the judgements from others. Because it always seemed like others were judging us.
Two years ago I made the hardest decision of my life and left the man I loved who wouldn’t/couldn’t stop drinking.
In my escape plan, I moved to East Hollywood. A cozy one-bedroom apartment. It was all I could afford, and it wasn’t perfect (except for the parts that were). You see, it was me waking up to my own life, choosing to face what wasn’t working. It was scary, but I did it. And that freedom was such a beautiful release.
2015 was a healing time for me. I was trying to find my footing again, trying to rebuild my life after it had all come crashing down – at least, the version of my life I thought I’d have.
By letting go of what wasn’t working, I found what was. I met a man with a brilliant smile and an easy laugh. It took time but I slowly let him into my heart. I wrote more than I ever had before. I kept climbing mountains. I took care of my body. I focused on the good: family, friends, exercise, writing, stories, language, adventure…
Love. I surprised myself by loving my loud, messy neighborhood. I can walk to the metro. I can walk to Griffith Park. I can walk into Hollywood and tip my hat to the stars. I can mosey to both UCB’s. There are restaurants and bars here, and coffee shops, and an amazing little Italian panini shop.
I used to be able to walk to work at Sunset Gower studios, but then I found a fabulous writing job for a TV show over the hill. And the people make me smile there and I’m happy to go to work.
I never thought I’d be here. If someone had told me two years ago this is what my life would be, I wouldn’t have believed them.
And there’s so much more to do, isn’t there?
Here’s to 2016. Here’s to facing the future head-on. Here’s to focusing on what matters and throwing away the rest. No more noise.
Just movement. This eternal dance. The stars and the sun and the moon and the earth.
This. Us. Now. Πάμε.
