My time has come!
Posted on March 8, 2010
When I meet new people and tell them that I’m a film director, they always ask me what kind of feature films I have made. Unfortunately I have to disappoint them and tell them that I have only made shorts, commercials and series. It’s strange, but it seems like every single person that doesn’t work with film, thinks it’s normal for a film director to make feature films. In most cases, this is wrong. It takes a lot of courage and patience to make a full length feature film, and you need to get the right contacts and enough money for a project like that.
However, I can say for sure, that it’s every film directors (actually also every young boys) dream to make a feature film for the cinema. You get the opportunity to make your own full length film, with a big crew and a big budget and you also get the opportunity to show your film for thousands of people. Most likely your feature film will be released on DVD’s, and what isn’t better then to see your own movie in the shelter of a DVD-store, next to The Lord of the Rings and Avatar II? This may actually happen to me.
A while ago, a producer sent me an e-mail about a feature film she had written a script for. She wasn’t a hundred percent sure that this feature film project would be realized (because of too little money and time), but she thought it may be possible. And to my big surprise, she asked me if I wanted to direct it! First I didn’t believe my own eyes, but then I realized she was serious. She also sent me a treatment for the film, and I read that the story was about girls and horses. “Hehe, that’s not my type of film at all”, I thought to myself. However, this didn’t matter because I was just so privileged to get this opportunity. The genre could be anything, I would still make it! Except porn-film (I guess…)
Today everything is going very well with the project. We are soon finished with the first draft of the script, before sending it to different film funds. We are also doing some auditions to find actors, and we are gathering a crew for the shooting. Soon I’m going to Brønnøysund in the north of Norway to check out some wonderful locations and to find the horses I want to use. I have heard it’s a mess to direct animals, so we will see how that goes. It will be a tough job to direct both horses and girls in my first feature film ever, but if you don’t dare, you don’t win! =)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. —Robert F. Kennedy
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Is the producer that contacted you Karen Loop? She was one of my professors last year and I showed her your showreel after class. She really liked it and said she wanted to contact you.
Hi Kelsey!
No, it wasn’t here. The producer that contacted me was norwegian. But I remember you told me on youtube about your professor. It’s very cool to hear that she liked my showreel! I haven’t heard from her yet, but maybe she will send me an e-mail one day.
Thanks for the comment!
Wow, I do hope things are going well with your project. I’m looking forward to seeing! If you don’t know already…you got a big fan here..
Take care and many blessings!
Michael
[…] Three months have passed since my last update here on axp.no, and some of you guys have probably been wondering why I haven’t uploaded any new projects? Have I been to lazy to update anything, or could it be that I have been to busy working with a new big project, like a big budget film? Could that be it? Fortunately yes! For the last three months I have been working on my new upcoming feature film that will have a premiere at the cinema in Norway in 2011. The working title is “Kehilan comes home”, and it’s a feel-good film about girls and horses (take a look at “My time has come”). […]
Good luck Buddy.
Hi Bro,
I am vanan from Singapore. I looked at your review on cannon 550D. Good reviews bro, i am also passionate about film making. I too hope to make a featured film soon. Good luck with yours!!!
Warm Regards,
Vanan
i saw your youtube videos, and can’t wait to see a trailer of this film.
great to know that you are growing up in filmaking.
P.S. i’ve been in Bergen, Trondheim and Lofoten islands, there are incredible locations in Norway, a place I love.
Donato Greco
Italy