Steffen Brandt

Danish music magazine Gaffa.dk has an interview with my other hero:
What things that you know today would you have liked to know then (1984) ?
Jeg ville gerne have vidst, at det går over. Alting går over. Det er utrolig vigtigt at vide. Desværre har det gode det også med at gå over. Men [...]

I saw My Zinc Bed on BBC2. It was originally a play by David Hare, who now adapted it for television.
The problem with theatre plays being adapted for telly is that there is so much talk in them. My Zinc Bed was no exception. And despite an interesting cast (Paddy Considine, Jonathan Pryce and Uma [...]

Devon Cream Tea in the Wayside Cafe

It’s really not bad to spend your 42nd birthday with your best friend in a cafe in Widecombe-In-The-Moor having a cream tea that looked as good as this and tasted as good too.
We also visited Princetown which is known for the prison. And if you have seen Lucky Break [...]

Art school

In between everything, I have actually written 5 pages of brand new (feature length) script. There is no chance that I will finish this script anytime soon, but the beginning is there.
My mind is thinking about the story a lot, there are a couple of options and I am trying to figure out the [...]

Yesterday was the day where they removed three moles from different places of my body. I am not a big fan of hospitals (who is - but I have a neurotic fear for them) and did my very best not to have a nervous breakdown about it.
With a tube strike threatening on the horizon I [...]

Indeed

(I will spare you the rest)

Somewhere over the rainbow?

A man prays a really really long prayer before he throws himself on the now even less lukewarm hamburger.
A young couple looking very Dutch and very much in luv - eats a McFlurry. To them I would like to say, despite the Notting Hill MacD’s attempt to have it look like [...]

Sweetarts Auditions

A somewhat hectic weekend, with again, ups and downs. Here are some notes on the casting and audition process:

Auditions SweetArts

I have long struggled taking this decision. I was jumping between the following two options:
No! No! No! Don’t be bloody ridiculous. Are you insane? Don’t do it. He will think you are stupid. It’s just not done. You can’t do things like that. Do-no-do-it. No! Don’t!! You will be doomed forever and he will never [...]

Yes Viktor, I feel a bit like that too

There are a couple of reasons for this:

I can’t find a producer just yet. I don’t want to make this film without being properly prepared. And I simply need a producer who can help me with budgets, contracts, release forms, locations and things like that. I don’t [...]

Up is Down is that great moment of revelation in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. What? You haven’t seen that film? What are you doing here, go watch it, go, go, go!!
But Up is Down is also very appropriate when it comes to making a film. Some days you are up, and the [...]

Dogs in the rain

The view from my B&B room in Weymouth Saturday morning around 8am (yes zoom lens and a room with sea view very close to the beach). It didn’t look very promising so we headed to a cafe for a coffee and the Saturday Guardian. I think the dogs are more depressed because [...]

I know that this is starting to look a bit like the diary of a film maker. Well it’s important for me to write up this process. One year from now I want to be able to read back what an insane time this has been and how things went. So the coming time the [...]