The Horizon Project

I got a DVD today, with a film that I has sponsored through crowdfunding (Kickstarter.com).
It felt a bit special to know I have helped people to make a dream come true, even though I didn't gave that much.

But then I saw the film. It was okay. Not the best film I have ever seen, but fine. I just didn't understand the story. Sorry guys, but the story just didn't get through.

It is a post apocalyptic story and there is a virus in the world. And people want to be a part of the Horizon Project that will lead to a better place. That much I got. But then I just got lost...

And that made me think about my own movies...! People are supporting me in my filmmaking career. And I don't want to make them disapointed. I just want to make a film that people will enjoy and understand and want to support.

Well, I am happy I helped fellow filmmakers out there by supporting them with crowdfunding! I hope they will succeed with the film and that the will continue to make film! And I will continue to support filmmakers as well.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/536006487/the-horizon-project-a-short-film

nooMaraton 2013

Last day it was the yearly film contest "nooMaraton" here in Sweden.
It is a really funny contest where you get 24 hours to make film from certain criteria, and people all over Sweden compete at the same time with the same criteria.

This years theme: "requirements marked" (not sure of translation here)
Locations: Under a lightpole, in a hut and in a lineThings: Bracelet, app and music instrument

We were a bit worried while filming since we somehow lost control and only had 6 extras, but those extras did a wonderful job! :)
But we gained control in the editing and we started out with 26 minutes of raw material. (The film cannot be more then 5 minutes) Then we edited it some more and got down to 7 minutes.
My partner then said that no way we can get it any shorter. Ha, he was so wrong!
We managed to make a film, with credits, that were 4 minutes and 57 seconds long.

Now it is up to a jury here on Gotland to pick a winner, from 11 different contributions, and that winner to the big finale in Stockholm! And even if we don't win we had a great time making the film!

What I do like about this competition is that it is not about the best quality of camera or image. It is how to make a story! How to get all the criteria in to the film in the best storytelling way as possible. That is what filmmaking is all about! To tell a story!

Here is our contribution for this years nooMaraton. And we hope you'll like it!

Revolting.

Every know and then we need to be revolting! No doubt about that. We need to step up in front of everyone and say: Let's go this way!

We also need to be revolting to our selves too. Like, you know that something is safe and secure, it has always been like that and most likely always will be like that, but then you have an opportunity to make some thing different, but then you need to step outside the box! You need to get unsafe. Loose the grip for a little while.
And maybe your mind says "No", your heart says "Yes" and then there is confusion.
You even talk to your friends and family, just to see what that would say and/or do, and they will divide in to you mind and heart.
Suddenly you just realize you want to follow your heart! Even though it means that you will loose control for a second. Even if all your friends becomes your mind and says: No!
You just need to do this! You need to be revolting!
Because you know that if you do this you will change something in your life, and hopefully for the better!

But then, you start thinking about it. You will loose the safety. You will stand alone in something and it probably will take a lot of time before your mind comes along.

I do believe that you should to what you want, when you want it because you want it! That is like important for your soul. And to make a statement for your mind that you are who you are.
And to be revolting doesn't have to be big. It can just be a small statement, to walk against what others consider to be normal! Never be normal!!! Be you!

I am revolting against my self and will change my life, maybe for the better. I don't know!

But here I come! Let's do this!

My movie or Our movie?

Well, how should it be? 

A friend, who is involved in The Rain that I am producing and directing, said she went around and said "What are WE going to do?" "What do WE have to fix?" and so on. Then she stopped and thought about and realized she said "we" instead of "you".

And then she asked me if I thought it was wrong of her to do that. 

All I could say was: no! Even though I am the producer and director it is not my movie. It is OURs! All of us that are working with this project. Even if you just are an extra fo half a day, we couldn't have made that scene without him or her. 

And those set runners are more important then you think! 

I concider my team to be equals no matter what position you have. And to hear someone say "we" just makes me happy. Then I know there are more people that are engaged into this project. I can stop feeling alone. 

But some people say: " I am making a movie. It is my movie"

I think that is selfish...

Be humble towards those who work for you and helps you. Without them hou would never be able to make a movie!

Needs!

I have needs. We all have needs!

I need money for my first feature ever. But they are nowhere to be found. 

To be an indiefilmmaker has been a wonderful process but in the same time so hard. 

We all have dreams. And my dream is to make a film that can acknowledge me as a filmmaker. This film is my dream!

Please help me reach my dream. Please...

www.sponsume.com/project/rain

New ways!

I am a 32 year old filmmaker on the little island Gotland, in the Baltic Sea.
I do what I believe in most, and that is to make films.
Not just any films, but the stories I want to tell and in the way I want to tell them.

I love the life of indiefilmmaking and I think that the best way to develop as a filmmaker os to make films in your own pace and your own way, without any demands in life.

That is why I love crowdfunding! I love the fact that you can let people support you and by that show that they believe in you and the project.

I have tried different ways to fund my films. Different crowdfunding sites and right now I have one project on two sites.

The first site is Sponsume.com. A really great place. Many people are visiting that page and a lot of projects get funded.
I have reached $200 thanks to that site and I do hope for more: www.sponsume.com/project/rain

But recently I have also found a really cool site, called Picocent. And it is so easy to fund proejcts there. You just have to open an account and then you are free to sponsor what ever project you want, without paying any money. :) Yes, it is true. The are getting the money from ads and you will get a lot of picocents to give to projects.
Of course it takes many picocents to reach a "normal" cent, but still! So easy!

And I hope that people will see my project there and think that The Rain is a really cool project so that it will get funded!

I am about to make my first feature! I am thrilled about it. I just wish that more people can believe in us so we can manage to make this film as good as it deserves.

Join Picocent.com you too!

Quiet...

Right now I am sitting in my bed with only one single lamp turned on and it is oh so quiet. 

And I am blown away how much the quietness can sound so much! It is just a roar in my head and I can't focus, but still there isn't a sound in here....

I guess there is time for me to shut down some parts in my life so that I can get back to life...

I have lost my life the last two months. I have given my life to something else. Something that eats me from the inside and out... But something that still makes me whole. 

There is no need to be poetic about it. There is just a need to speak without speaking. To talk without words. To hear without listening....

My life is dedicates this right now: www.sponsume.com/project/rain