It has been two weeks and it is feeling that finally we are really, actually home. The first week was like being underwater– words came out of my mouth, but I didn’t really expect them to reach people’s ears, so I didn’t, couldn’t really spend too much energy on being coherent. The afternoons were spent [...]
Nutan and Amy hard at work on the subtitles. Did I mention it was hard work? So, in parts of the world that aren’t North America, they have this game called soccer. Actually they call it football, but when you’re an American and not talking about the NFL kind, you always need to say that [...]
There was a lot of build-up to the interviewing of our three girls and mothers (and in one case, brother). Scott and I had decided (with help from our filmmaking and all around super creative buddy, Chris Boulton, via Skype) how we were going to go about conducting them based on the following: We want the [...]
Finished our last interviews day. We are pretty much done with filming. Figured we could take part in some risky behavior (not that going scurvy is not a risk). Now it is all about T + T = T. (Transcription & Translation is Tedium.)
Today’s work has fulfilled yesterday’s optimism. The looming cloud of scribble remains unformed, still fleeting around as loose vapors. More about today, tomorrow. But as to yesterday…. The thing that give us this blithe ability to be happy when stuff’s going pear shaped all around us is simply this: The Gift of Time. Our work, [...]
