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Aug 21, 20231 min read

PART 9 - THE MERKURY ELEMENT

The experience with the Children of Kings trailer had taught me what I could expect, only that this time, there was a script and a story...

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Aug 14, 20231 min read

PART 8 - Merkury

Children of Kings needed a break. And I needed a new idea. Something that would draw the interest of German producers. Through a...

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Aug 11, 20231 min read

PART 7 - Developing a new concept with a real story

Knowing that Bolivia did not have a large film fund and would most likely choose not to support a foreign filmmaker, I stuck to the idea...

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Aug 11, 20232 min read

PART 6 - Bolivia and the first script

Now I had something I could show. But I was convinced that a potential investor would only jump on board if I could not only showcase the...

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Jul 17, 20232 min read

PART 5 - The Trailer, action

Preparing the trailer was exhausting but fun, but as the shooting days approached (it was insane to get 50 volunteers to agree on one...

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Jul 10, 20231 min read

PART 4 - The Trailer, preparation

It is generally not a secret that film trailers are created mostly from existing film footage. But since there was no footage, the...

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Jul 3, 20231 min read

PART 3 - Juana

Juana’s story struck me. She was a mother, a wife and a leader. And this made her stand out from the crowd of male heroes of the...

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Jun 26, 20231 min read

Research and the first drafts. Still no Juana until the end.

There were handful of figures that dominated the history books on the subject of the Wars of Independence and I recalled several of the...

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Jun 19, 20232 min read

PART 1

My first attempts at writing a story happened back in 2005 or 2006 whilst living in London. The city was expensive and I was looking for...

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