The Journey Begins – Part XV
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 21, 2015 Tembisa (the name means “Promise,”) is the second largest township in South Africa, founded in 1957 when black residents of Joburg were being evicted from the soon-to-be whites only areas. We are shooting in one of the most marginalareas– under […]
The Journey Begins – Part XIV
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 21, 2015 Meals on location are usually taken outside- but today we were in a school room in the township of Tembisa (some four million people live there.) Our team found a very rough section there which doubled for a refugee camp […]
The Journey Begins – Part XIII
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 19, 2015 During this scene, Ben Schnetzer, as Dan. rings the bell of his mother Kathy’s flat after his first trip to Somalia. When she doesn’t answer quickly enough, he crawls up the ivy. Okay– some artistic licence has been taken on […]
Photos from Set! – The Journey Begins
Long Journey to “Journey.” We begin tomorrow with our wonderful young cast led by Ben Schnetzer as Dan and Ella Purnell playing Amy. I’ll send pics from the location (a 20 minute hike away from our trucks). Here is the first day’s production sheet – I will frame it. Here’s the real Student Transport Aid […]
The Journey Begins – Part XII
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 16, 2015 I asked a group of little boys to sing their favorite hymn (after inviting them to shoot pics of themselves with my phone.) Later, our driver listened to the video and explained what they were singing, in Zulu, I believe. […]
The Journey Begins – Part XI
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 14, 2015 Creep around behind the scenes with me and Charlie and see the incredible efforts that she and the art department put into creating an authentic scene outside a shabeen, a local club, in Malawi circa 1990. The people walking through […]
The Journey Begins – Part X
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 12, 2015 Join me behind the scenes in Joburg and see gorgeous young actors, dedicated crew members and brilliant director Bronwen Hughes shooting at “Lengai Croze’s” house (though it’s not as magical as his mother, Nani Croze’s real- and most whimsical home […]
The Journey Begins – Part IX
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 12, 2015 Paradise FOUND! Unfettered giraffes, zebras, wildebeeste, even a few elephants (although they came later) mingling with our incredulous young actors on the Journey of a lifetime. Can you spot a kudu? And Dan Eldon (played by Ben Schnetzer- really an […]
The Journey Begins – Part VIII
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 12, 2015 Inspired by the spirit of Nelson Mandela, Doris (the name of my ‘walking boot,’) and I relied on producer Kweku Mandela to help us negotiate the half hour hike to the first location, an idyllic gorge where our talented young […]
The Journey Begins – Part VII
Click on Kathy’s name below to watch the video over on Facebook! August 10, 2015 First shot –a twenty minute walk to the gorge- made it with the help of Kweku Mandela who didn’t quite have to carry me…Note director Bronwen Hughes and ‘Dan,” Ben Schnetzer, who is now eerily similar to Dan. Absolutely ecstatic. […]