While in the last time it has been a little quiet around my short movie project, but Joana and myself have been very busy working on it.
We solved major story issues, fleshed out the different characters and killed stereotypes, reconstructured the plot and – finally – found a name for our short movie: A Place Of Peace.
Due to some scheduling conflicts we moved the shooting date a month back into December this year, so we´ve got some more time for the pre-production.
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First things first: the EURO 08 is over. While Austria is not that famous for beeing very enthusiastic about our football team the EURO changed everything. Austria has gained confidence in their team and football in general has become more important – if that´s a good thing or not is anyone’s guess.
My collegue Thomas Waldek and myself have been shooting fan messages that where shown in the stadium after we edited them. I can now say that i can cheer and sing for 16 different nations – nice 
Anyway, this will be my last post about football, and i thought i´d include some picture i have taken. The EURO was a good chance to play around with my new Nikon D80, so my flickr page might be worth a visit.
My favourite picture of all is the last one of the four here, i´ve taken it in the fan zon in Vienna when BlocoX (a samba group) was performing.
Now back to all the serious stuff: moviemaking. As i mentioned in previous posts i´m currently working on a new short film together with Joana Adesuwa Reiterer. The screenplay is so far finished, it might need some tweaks here and there but in general i´m very happy with it.
Another great piece of news is that Johanna Tschautscher, who just finished her documentary “Europe, beyond the dream” which follows African refugees on their flight from Africa to Vienna, will co-direct the movie with myself.
I´m very happy to have such an interesting directing partner on that project, since Johanna has got great experience with documentaries it will be a very interesting collaboration.
The title of the movie is not that set in stone right now, the working title will be “I Will Help You” so far.
The movie will be about human trafficking (as mentioned in earlier posts), it will focus on the teenage protagonist Ayo. I won´t spoil any more of the story, but i can say that the movie will use different timelines to tell the story.
Joana is just about to organize an awareness film exhibition in Africa where this short movie will be shown (besides others of course).
So far to my current project, i´m really excited and can´t wait for the pre-production to begin, but for now we have to search for sponsors and fundings.
The huge difference in slavery back in the days and nowadays is that it just aint called “slavery” anymore, nevertheless it´s a more important topic than ever.
The article 10 Shocking facts about global slavery in 2008 pretty much sums it up.
Slavery? Nowadays? No way! Yeah, right, it´s a great social world we are living in, we can be glad we didn´t live a few hundred years earlier, are we?
I´m really looking forward to direct my next short movie by the end of 2008…