BIO of author : Roberta Seret

ROBERTA SERET, Ph.D. is founder and executive director of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations, International Cinema Education Organization (2001 to present) that has been funded by a 5-year Ford Foundation Grant, 7-year Morgan Stanley Grant, UBS and others. Her “Global Classroom,” has invited more than 15,000 New York City students to programs at the U.N. As Director of ESL and Film for the Hospitality Committee of the United Nations, she teaches diplomats English by using Film. 

She also teaches Film at New York University, where her book, World Affairs in Foreign Film, serves as curriculum. 

website: www.internationalcinemaeducation.org

Roberta Seret lives in NYC with her husband and their two sons.

She is the author of the series, Transylvanian Trilogy (Gift of Diamonds, Love Odyssey, Treasure Seekers), winning 7 awards, including the prestigious Indie Winner for Best Fictional Series in 2022.

Transylvanian Trilogy 

Link to Transylvanian Trilogy – https://transylvaniantrilogy.com/

Gift of Diamonds

Gift of Diamonds introduces Mica at seventeen-years-old, when her parents are plotting to bring down Causescu as he comes to power. They are arrested and she realizes she will be next. In the middle of the night, she escapes Transylvania on her bicycle. But she is not alone – she has taken her father’s colored diamonds that were hidden in their basement. Her only fear is that she remembers he had told her, they come from Auschwitz and they may be cursed.

Love Odyssey

Love Odyssey narrates the story of Anca, a young doctor working in the Transylvanian countryside during a typhus epidemic. She has special medicines and antibiotics, not available in communist Romania. But she is giving them to non-communists and gypsies. The dictatorial regime is not happy. Her doctor husband fears his pregnant wife will be arrested and arranges her escape. Or is it to get rid of her while he becomes Ceausescu’s personal doctor to bring down communism and become the leader of the Revolution? 19 years late, Anca returns to Transylvania to save the man who wronged her. But she could never stop loving him.

Treasure Seekers

Treasure Seekers reflects today’s political canvas of America’s relationship with Turkey and Iran. Treasure Seekers unites Marina and Cristina as they vacation together in Istanbul and unwillingly get involved in Turkey’s and Iran’s Gas-for-Gold scandal, the largest gold laundering scheme in American history.

The friends believe that Romania is at the origin when they remember that their Romanian leader, dictator Ceausescu of 24 years, had traveled to Tehran three days before he was executed in December 1989. He went to visit the new Iranian president, Rafsanjani who had just started a private bank, the Bank of Tehran.

Causescu had traveled with suitcases filled with gold. Gold that had never been found. Never claimed.