Screening “Rule 2″ at Pinewood April 30, 2008
Posted by joost in : LFA, film, london, screening , comments closedOn Tuesday the 29th of April, the BSC New Cinematographers Night took place at the Pinewood Studios.
My short film “Rule 2″ was selected together with six other English short films from up and coming directors and cinematographers. An honour to be screened here at Pinewood before the eyes of renowned cinematographers and amongst fellow young filmers of course.
Last but not least this was the first time that Rule 2 was shown outside the London Film Academy, for an audience of 100+ people, on a big screen. Quite a thrill!
At the same time you can’t help but to feel a little bit dwarved compared to some other films that were shown that evening, made by more experienced filmmakers with more time and money. Nevertheless, my film was part of the evening and that’s what matters.
When all the shorts had been shown, one by one the makers of the films were asked to come to the front for a Q&A session. The interviewer had some questions and then there was room for the audience to fire away.
From left to right: interviewer, me (director), Claudio (DoP), Riman (producer), George (writer)
Upfront I really didn’t know what kind of questions to expect, because this event in principal focuses on the cinematography, but as a director people tend to look at you to explain why and how you have done things the way that you did. The good thing about not knowing what to expect is that you can’t really prepare, you just show up and hope for the best 
Which is what we did, and it went fine.
Questions ranged from explaining why we chose to shoot the projection room scenes on a particular kind of stock (Fuji Reala 500D, for those of you who are interested) to how much it had cost us to make the projection screen (about £480, including free labor by Claudio, George and me…).
Claudio explaining our setup for the projection room scenes.
Yours truly talking about why we filmed with a live projector and how we got the images.
After about 10 minutes we left the stage again, and after the other Q&A’s had finished, that wrapped up the evening.
I’m back home now, looking back at a successful evening. Great to have shared that with the key people who were involved in the film (apart from Paul who was 1st A.D. and who has returned to South Africa last December). Tonight more than ever I realized that I have actually made a film 
24th AFFF done April 21, 2008
Posted by joost in : film, netherlands , comments closed52 films in 11 days plus a masterclass, a symposium and a signing session. Madness! But I wouldn’t trade it for anything else in the world.
Read all out posts of the festival, or just skip to the concluding festival impressions, including my personal highlights and recommendations!
The 24th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival April 9, 2008
Posted by joost in : film, lifestyle, netherlands , comments closedYes, it’s here again, the 24th edition of the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival! For me the main reason the return to Amsterdam, I will be seeing 52 films in the next 10 days. Yay!
Me and Hans will be blogging throughout the festival, sharing our impressions and reviewing the films in our own format.
If you happen to be in Amsterdam and want to meet me there, go to the Tuschinski Art House, you’re bound to bump into me