Archive for September, 2009
Warming Up
What to do when you're typing an email and your two phones ring at the same time?That's what the days are like for me as I negotiate with agents, talk to potential crew, book flights, check the schedule, arrange locations,...
Bird by Bird
One of the best books I ever read on writing was by Anne Lamott, entitled 'Bird by Bird'. The title...
What – Me Worry?
Crisis - what crisis? It's just in the daily run of things. Juggle chainsaws while skateboarding across a precipice? No...
The Gap
Some great talent from the auditions over the weekend. Getting through 50 auditions over 2 days is a fair old...
Ring Ring
Neo won't answer, but we now have the phone connected at our Auckland production office. It's (09)3601643. With any decent...
Talent
All systems go for auditions this weekend. The logistics of doing the schedule have kept me out of trouble for...
Eclipse?
This has been a tough week for the project. Without going into details, we have had to rejig the entire...
Monkey See, Monkey Do
Spent Wednesday with the great guys from Rubber Monkey in Wellington. They have one of the sweetest production houses that...
NZ Film Month?
Ant Timpson, redoubtable cheerleader for film and father of the 48hours film comp, the Incredibly Strange Film Festival, and Headstrong,...
Playing the Odds
Sad to say we didn't strike the big one on Saturday night! We had a few winning tickets for minor...
of place and emotional power, in a
moving, original movie that
deserves to be seen."
