Meet the Crew

So we arrive in Warsaw the capitol of Poland and within few days we are whisked away to our first production meeting. Our production office is at Poland's version of Hollywood, or film town. Many films have been made here and the particular building in which we have our production office used to be the production centre for Schindler's list. We hope this is a good omen. Malgosia was a little embarrased about the look od the tin shed but her production manager told her to say it has a Kieslowki flovour. Which of course worked on me because he's one of my favourite film makers. It actually was quite confronting to walk into an office with lots of people, not having spoken much Polish for a a fair few years. Needless to say I resorted to English as I talked about the film and tried to convey its essence.(It seems that most Poles speak English) I think that making a film is like conducting an orchestra. Each department has to do their best in order to make a beautiful well tuned piece of music. I found out over the shooting period, that my perception of collaboration and theirs seemed at times worlds apart. We lived in an apartment on the outskirts of Warsaw near a beautiful park, it was summer and a glorious time to be there, we were very excited about looking for the location and finding the actors and getting to know all our crew. I pretty much knew instantly as we walked into the production office that the two young women Marta and Magda were going to make everything OK. Which, in the deepest darkest part of this process turned out to be true. Just as the Country of Poland has changed and morphed into its version of the West so have a lot of Poles, some of them are the most remarkable humans able to do anything, under any strain, other are broken by the process. We shot some footage like a diary log and hope to have it up on U-Tube soon.



Marta and Magda in the production office. D.O.P and the Girls