DAVID WAKNINE – CEO – “THE FOREIGNER”
I am a foreigner! But, what does that mean exactly? Well, the dictionary defines it as such:
- A person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
- An outsider or interloper
- A person from outside one’s community.
I am from a different land, but after a while you become from the same land. I mean after all, through time, our ancestors have been from one land or another. Invaded at times or invading at others. That’s not the foreigner that I am talking about!
Since my recollection as a child, I’ve always had foreign feeling resting in my heart… Foreigner in land, foreigner in language, foreigner in passion, foreigner in love, foreigner in family, foreigner in friends, foreign in my ideas, foreign in my work, foreign in my thoughts… Always a foreigner… Forever a foreigner!
I was born in Casablanca, Morocco to parents named Michel Waknine and Lea Danino. I was given the name David. I am David Waknine.
I am the CEO and founder of Hollywood Fight Club Productions – HFC PICTURES.
In the following blogs, I will be sharing my foreign life with you. In my own foreign way. I will be opening up to you in every way that I felt or feeling as a foreigner… Leaving nothing behind… My entire life up to now.
Hopefully, somewhere down this path, you will be able to relate to me in some way or another. You will understand why the stories I tell have to be human stories. Why a story like Detka breathes passion to me!
As a businessperson I would be lying to you if I told you that I will not do commercial films, because one day I will… My goal is to keep HFC PICTURES alive and enjoy my life doing it. Life is short… The world is big and is yet to be fully seen. But I do promise to keep to my roots and keep the integrity of HFC PICTURES one that the world will benefit from.
Thank you for reading this and I look forward to sharing with you.