#4. Blindness Director: Fernando MeirellesWriters: Don McKellar (Childstar)Producers: Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Niv Fichman, Sonoko Sakai Distributor: Miramax Films The Gist: Scripted...
"This change from the documentary to the fiction has been really difficult. At the beginning, I wanted to produce other documentary. I had just finished shooting a movie about identical twins and then I began to do some research about blindness, which would be the theme of the next one. "
It lasted five thousand meters instead of two thousand meters and I was at the point of giving up because this is the most difficult moment for you as a director: everyone knows what they need to say but they can’t get what you want and the problem wasn’t that much with Anna-Maria but the others for here the problem was to manage to find the same concentration after so many takes because peeople were making mistakes and it was so frustrating because it was a 12-minute shot.
I didn’t really want to be a filmmaker. I wanted to be a surfer or a tennis player. Per chance, when I was working on the account side at a multi-national ad agency, a client presented me with the opportunity to write and direct some fashion commercials (I had excelle