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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 21, 20231 min read
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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 14, 20231 min read
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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, 20231 min read
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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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Aug 11, 20232 min read
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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 17, 20232 min read
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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 10, 20231 min read
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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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Jul 3, 20231 min read
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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 26, 20231 min read
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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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Jun 19, 20232 min read
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