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
easy for a film like this to get lost amid all the bigger films – or the festival winners – but I think that if people find the film, they will be surprised at how it makes them feel
The initial idea sprang from this question I asked myself: if white American teenagers were forming gangs, arming themselves with automatic weapons and killing each other on the street of America, what do you think the response would be of our government? W
I wish wish wish I could describe myself as the boy film geek who watched movies non-stop, or that I watched one film that changed my life forever. But the truth is that it was a little more organic than that. I loved directing theater in college, and that’s what