Next week I am going to see Anna, director of “The Band”, a movie which sprung from her lovely naughty mind quite some time back …
Miss Anna Brownfield will be in Europe
to attend the Opening Night with her movie in our lovely capital Berlin
to bring me some love and squeeze me really hard
to check the [...]
I just got back from shooting with Alice Gruia the “Rodicas’ “. A all pink and beauty wonderful documentary about two 87 and 82 year old ladies living in Sydney.
Rodica Odette and Rodica Ramira, both descendants of Jewish families, left Romania after the war, having to start over again in their early twenties in new countries, learning new languages.
Finally in Australia, they met playing bridge. And have been friends ever since. 30 years and on.
Together they are like humming flinging swinging teenage girls. Gossip, laugh, dance, drink. Age seems to be a unnoticed unimportant little fluff they easily brush off their tone in tone girly dream world they are living in.
“I have never been so happy as int he last twenty years of my life” Rodica says.
“You give me all this Gin Tonic to drink. Can you hear what stupid things it makes me say?” she adds and laughs.
By a lovely note from Tina Kinne, a director of mine, I found out quite surprisingly that “The Band”, which I shot in Melbourne in 2006 and which was directed by my friend Anna Brownfield, is screening in Cannes Film Festival!
Tina wrote:
“Just watched by coincidence “The Band” – amazing movie … congratulations&respect.“
Did she say this [...]
Finding unconventional solutions to problems during a shoot is one of the things I love. Here we have been improvising to get a tracking shot of two people running down an alley way, chasing each other. I built a small stabilisation system based on the idea of a steadicam and image stabilisers. Hooked up and [...]
“All you need for a good movie is a girl and a gun.” – Jean-Luc Godard.
My graduation film is finally finished. Thanks to Siobhan Jackson who created and directed “1, 2, 3″ and Tim Metherall who first made the match between us. Nick Batterham composed some beautiful music, just what you need for a Silent [...]
