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What one man learned from traveling the world and asking strangers, 'Are you happy?’ - Yahoo
One man set out on a journey to break down barriers and start intimate conversations with strangers around the world just by asking the simple question: “Are you happy?” Now, he’s sharing what he’s learned about the human condition through his travels and the people he met along the way with a documentary series gaining viral attention on social media.
Atdhe Trepca tells Yahoo Life that he has long been interested in filmmaking, leading him to study it in school and pursue opportunities at Viacom and Warner Bros. Studio — where he met creators in the field whom he looked up to. But it was a French documentary from 1961 called Chronicle of a Summer that inspired his latest project.
“Two nonfilmmakers go into the streets of Paris in an attempt to get an honest, real conversation on camera,” he explains, noting that those conversations were started with the very question he asks his subjects. “I thought it'd be really cool to get that idea and just go around the world with it, immerse myself in different cultures of people all around the world.”
One man set out on a journey to break down barriers and start intimate conversations with strangers around the world just by asking the simple question: “Are you happy?” Now, he’s sharing what he’s learned about the human condition through his travels and the people he met along the way with a documentary series gaining viral attention on social media.
Atdhe Trepca tells Yahoo Life that he has long been interested in filmmaking, leading him to study it in school and pursue opportunities at Viacom and Warner Bros. Studio — where he met creators in the field whom he looked up to. But it was a French documentary from 1961 called Chronicle of a Summer that inspired his latest project.
“Two nonfilmmakers go into the streets of Paris in an attempt to get an honest, real conversation on camera,” he explains, noting that those conversations were started with the very question he asks his subjects. “I thought it'd be really cool to get that idea and just go around the world with it, immerse myself in different cultures of people all around the world.”