Edinburgh Film Festival Competition Directors on the Craziest, Most Challenging Moments Making Their First Features and Why They Can’t Wait to Do It Again: ‘It’s an Addiction’
The chaos, hard graft and — ultimately — privileged thrill of feature filmmaking were the central themes of conversation at the Variety Lounge at Edinburgh International Film Festival as the rising directors in official competition sat down to discuss their craft. Supported by VisitScotland and held in Edinburgh’s historic Caledonian Hotel, the Variety Lounge welcomed the 11 directors behind the 10 films competing for the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence.
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The chaos, hard graft and — ultimately — privileged thrill of feature filmmaking were the central themes of conversation at the Variety Lounge at Edinburgh International Film Festival as the rising directors in official competition sat down to discuss their craft. Supported by VisitScotland and held in Edinburgh’s historic Caledonian Hotel, the Variety Lounge welcomed the 11 directors behind the 10 films competing for the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence. For all but three, the film was their feature debut, although that didn’t stop them from immediately breaking the unwritten rules of directing. “My film was shot entirely on water, and if you learn one thing — and I went to film academy — it’s that if you don’t have a big budget or masses of experience, don’t shoot on water,” admitted Dutch director Thom Lunshof, behind the post-apocalyptic sci-fi “First Zone,” adding that he found himself on day two of the shoot with “drowning actors, cameras falling into the sea and boats that sailed off into the horizon with my main actress on it.” But despite the chaos unfolding in front of him, Lunshof said it made him realize “how special it was to do something like this for a first film.
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Edinburgh Film Festival Competition Directors on the Craziest, Most Challenging Moments Making Their First Features and Why They Can’t Wait to Do It Again: ‘It’s an Addiction’
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