Making proces The bird can't fly
Old and new
New Year, that all our dreams will come true! My project in Oldenzaal got a supplement. On 31 December a special page about me came out. They asked me to write one more article and people who’re pro or against me wrote the other pieces. I never could have thought my columns would have such an inpact.
4 January 2004
Selections and priorities
While the Christmas angels fly around me, the actress I want to play the main role in The Bird Can’t Fly finally said she is very much interested but has some other obligations for March and April.
20 December 2003
autumn newsletter
While working in Bombay on ‘War for a Kiss’, I got a very odd request by email: would I like to do a one month research to the identity of Oldenzaal, a small provincial Dutch town near the German border… I said
31 October 2003
The world is in my hands
My African film project, ‘The Bird Can’t Fly’, has again a delay. It is hard to except but I learned by now that making a film on this scale is a time consuming job.
16 October 2003
fiction and for real
Not even 24 hours ago 50 people died in the two horrible blasts in Bombay, but life has returned to normal.
26 August 2003
Clouds while the sun shines
While working on my Bombay story on a wonderful terrace looking out over the Atlantic Ocean I got bad news.
15 July 2003
My digital manuscript turns
My digital manuscript turns into paper will become a book. While my producers are working
3 June 2003
Be a film-producer
My producers, Joel from South Africa, Tom from Borderline Productions, Ireland and Monique from 24 FPS (Holland) are back from Cannes.
24 May 2003
The calm before the storm
It is a silent period. The casting director is working on the film. I’ll have to wait for
16 March 2003