~ True Story ~
“Music is enough for a lifetime – but a lifetime is not enough for music.” ~ Sergei Rachmaninoff
Georgia Delphine Koumas is a spiritual screenwriter, a pianist, and a composer. She is of Greek, Italian, Native America descent, but she was brought up mostly Greek.
I have always known that I wasn’t “normal” growing up. I didn’t have many friends. At the early age of six, I started taking piano lessons and I was classically trained. I played once every year in concert in Manhattan, NY.
I was never interested in writing, only in my music because it was a part of my soul until…
In my late 30s, I was divorced, raising two sons, and working for an aerospace company, when I began dreaming of my first story, which is now a screenplay, Gabriella Angel of the White Rose. In my spirit, Gabriella told me, “Please write my story. It is necessary to help many people.”
The story takes place in Sicily, in the early 1900s. I felt obsessed, even though I had two teenaged boys and my mother who depended on me (I lost my dad when he was 56). There was no Google back then, so I researched every book I could find, and I watched The Godfather many times. Gabriella was a miraculous child, born into a world of jealousy, greed, and child abuse. She was guided by an angel who came to her in an ethereal, white rose garden. Though she also had to endure the human side of life, her sacred ability was to heal, and thereby she changed people’s lives.
That experience led me to my second story, Lily’s Sacred Journey. I had a dream of a young Lakota girl who appeared as 8-year-old me, holding my grandparents’ hands as we walked through the Wounded Knee Memorial. I was speaking the Lakota language, even though I am Mohawk, Iroquois. So again, my obsession and research began. I wrote this story into a series when I read about the atrocities on the reservations and the kidnapping and murdering of Indigenous women. In the story, Lily is in college; her best friends are African American, Italian, and Greek. They all become “sisters” by helping Lily get involved in the kidnapping of her Indigenous sisters.
Then, through another dream, an adventurous story began to take form entitled Jeremy, about a 12-year-old boy whose father was the captain on a whaling ship in the 1800s in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He never returned from his whaling expedition after 8 years, and it was believed he had died. But Jeremy’s mother felt he was alive somewhere in the West. Many were taking the dangerous wagon train journey across the plains to Oregon – hoping for a better life. Jeremy had made a promise to his dying mother that he would find his father, who he barely remembered, and his wolf dog. Jeremy’s Christian uncle was heading west, too, with his wife and daughter. So, Jeremy went with them never revealing his intentions. Thus, began a treacherous adventure. It took a year of research for this project, and as all the rest, many re-writes.
Finally, I wrote a screenplay about my life and what it was like growing up in a Greek family. I was obsessed with playing the piano and I dreamed of a Russian composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff. I was compelled to study his music and compose my own for the production. This was a dream never realized in my life, but now I will live it through my film. It’s a story about another time and place.
The more I wrote of Sergei’s story, the more I believed I had actually lived in that time and place, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the early 1900s. I knew everything about Sergei, including where he was buried and I went to see his grave. He always regretted that his desire to compose for film was never realized, however when I was at the cemetery, I promised I would help make his dream a reality by telling his story through my words in Rachmaninoff, The Mirror Revealed.
Over these last 27 plus years, I have suffered through a great deal of loss and tragedy. I don’t know how I survived but I’m still here. I sometimes wonder why I was chosen for this and given these stories. I longed for a simpler life, married with my children, but it obviously wasn’t supposed to be.
Honestly, I don’t know how I am still here, with all the pain, both emotional, physical, and losing everything. I was almost homeless, but Spirit guided me to keep going even though I didn’t want to. Sometimes the pain was too much to bear. A part of me wanted to give up many times. It’s been difficult working with so many people along the way, trying to learn the film business – being knifed in the back and taken advantage of because I was a woman.
But I absolutely grew stronger within. I learned to speak up, especially to those who tried to put me down. This was my WORK, my passion, my destiny – to create a platform in this industry and to make a difference in the world.
Believe in Yourself!
Georgia
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