Tag: In the Pipeline

I have spent a lot of time in Cuba, so it didn’t feel foreign. With the actors we spent over a year rehearsing. They were not actors before Una Noche, so I wanted them to spend a lot of time with me and with each other so that they would feel really comfortable. We built up a lot of trust, which was important. We spent a lot of time doing improvisations, working through the script and work-shopping constantly until we started to feel like we were ready to shoot.

Long story short I got in touch with him through this really circuitous route. We started talking. I started calling him every day. Then I kinda just showed up at his house. I was like “We’re going to make a movie, I’m going to write for Rolling Stone.” – I had never written for Rolling Stone before.

The fantasy world is both an escape from and a commentary on the surrounding narrative. Similar to Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep, there is a porous boundary between the real world and an alternate reality. These two worlds collide so that the edges are blurred. I didn’t want the film to be dark, dark, dark punch-you-in-the-stomach all the way through – so the fantasies serve as a sort of release.

If you live there, you know Maine is much more than just lobsters and lighthouses. Filmmaker, Lance Edmands, is going to introduce the rest of us to the local side of his home state in his feature film debut, Bluebird. Set in a small Maine town, it’s about a school bus driver who accidentally locks a young boy in a school bus on a cold winter night. The boy is taken to the hospital the next day. The story follows the aftermath of this tragedy and how it affects and changes the families involved.

It would be nice to wake up next to Sophie Barthes. She’s beautiful, intelligent, talented and just so happens to be a morning person. To rise and shine with the Sundance lab alum is to bear witness to her early morning writing ritual. Ms. Barthes, who is currently in pre-production with her first feature film Cold Souls

David Ondaatje wants to scare you. In the edge-of-your-seat, heart pounding, what’s-about-to-happen kind of way. David Ondaatje also wants to move you. In the emotionally compelling, heartwarming, will-she-or-won’t-she kind of way. The first time feature filmmaker behind The Lodger has set the bar high with his adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes’s 1912 novel, which was the basis for Hitchcock’s 1927 same-titled film. With four successful shorts under his belt, Hope Davis and Alfred Molina on the screen, Michael Mailer in the co-producer chair and David Armstrong behind the camera, Ondaatje has every reason to believe his goal will be met.