Friday, October 29, 2010

Simmonds Arrives/Awards Ceremony

Yesterday our wonderful DP Michael Simmonds arrived.  Michael has shot a number of great movies, and functions well in all environments, ranging from the tropics of Antarctica to the desert plains of Serbia.  So Santa Marta should be a breeze.

After a long day at the office and a number of arrepas and a brief consultation of how to reapproach Nora, we headed to a Colombian Production Grant Awards Ceremony.  Our friends and co-producers on the project--Dynamo--were up for a new film from Andreas Baiz, whose next film is prepping.  The ceremony was like nothing I've ever seen in that they gauge 80 projects or so, narrow it down to 20, bring those 20 in for interviews, and then have a huge ceremony in an auditorium to announce the winners while the non-winners sat and watched.

Michael and I sat in anticipation and confusion (as we barely understood what was happening) but after a five second delay we found out our Andreas won!  Which was great!  Again victory rears its head in pre-production!

From there we went to celebrate with Havana Club!  What a splendid way to pass an evening!  The festivities bore little to no resemblance to the picture below....

Tomorrow we head to Santa Marta.  V excited to catch up with Jack and with Frankie.  All's coming together.

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