#but also freelancing is so goddamn tiring i would love to work at a production company for a little bit to see what it was like

[sanstropfremir]

✨🎥 with an update! I’m working on 7 different films. One of them premiered in Sundance and won an award there, but we still have a lot to do with it. It doesn’t even have a poster yet, so you can imagine. As for the rest, two of them will be shot by this autumn, one of them in Japan (hopefully 🤞🏻 this one was postponed for forever due to covid and japanese restrictions) and the other in Galicia. For this last one we are working with one of the biggest producing companies in Spain (the one from Élite) and I’m bonding with their prod coordinator, as we’re the ones that have to do the majority of the work at this stage. Next year we’ll probably shoot another two films. For one of them we’re in pursue of the main actor (the IT german actor nowadays, or at least that’s what the director wants) so we’ll see how that goes.

Our team is minuscule btw. As of right now it consist of the producer (my boss), head of development (me) and a production assistant that we hired a couple of months ago and that I’m training. We’ll also take an intern in march that I would have to train as well. So I have practically 0 mental energy once I’m home. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do and I’m amazing at my job but I spend the days joggling between 3 languages. For each of these movies there’s a MINIMUM of 2 years to get them done. That includes writing the script, looking for financing, going to script/productions labs, going to markets (usually Berlinale and Cannes), finding the whole cast and crew, location scouting, preproduction (buying and making the necessary things for wardrobe, makeup, hair, props, transport…), shooting, editing, color correction, sound design, postproduction, finding where to premiere, distribution of the film. Insane how people disregard the absurd amount of people and time that takes to do all that. For instance, for the Sundance movie we had to coordinate with 4 countries: one did the color correction, ours sound design+lab, the third had the director and the main producing company and the fourth was the sales agent that would sent the materials to the festival. So yeah, it takes FOREVER

i WISH i was as employed as you rn yeesh. but also yes perfect example for ppl who don't work in the arts that a lot of companies are super small and a lot of your time is taken up by communication + waiting for other people + working around restrictions (language barriers, laws/codes, time differences). the actual artmaking phase is such a small part of the whole process. when i'm busy and working on multiple projects at once i'm the same, you really have no mental energy for anything else once you're 'off the clock' (and even then you're never actually off the clock bc emails will always find you)