I’m not going to cross it off the list yet as it’s not technically finished but filming has finished for - IT IS BEYOND EVERYTHING.
A script I wrote last year and have spent the last month directing
with the help of some amazing people that have entered my life. Namely Bob
Starkenburg (guru, editing and sound) Vincent Lee (camera) Daniel Punton (lighting and
general all round whiz) as well as Jasyl Zonoobi (Assistant Director and clapper)
Dana Kenworthy (lighting) and Steven Laurent, Matt Butcher and Matthew Grego
(actors).
It has been an exhilarating, steep learning curve having no real idea of what being a director actually involves – jumping in the deep end (or actually being thrown in) and entirely grateful for the unexpected privilege as well as being totally caught off guard with the opportunity to cross off the LIFE LIST – “Make a movie”!
Bob and Vincent will be editing over the next couple of
months while I am crossing off some European LIFE LIST goals making the
completion date somewhere in the middle of this year.
Also in the last month I have been displayed in an art
gallery as part of Meredith Schofield’s exhibition “Compassion Fatigue” and
crossed off the LIFE LIST “Be a subject for an art project”
I also did a brief green screen appearance in another short
film and learnt – an actor I am not.