What a Summer!

​Hello everyone! It’s been a while... Sooooo much has happened!

First of all, I am halfway through a third draft of “Faith Hope Love” which now has a new title: “Fragments of Me”. We shot a teaser for the film in August, which is online now.

The Four Corners workshop has just ended, and it was a blast. I’m sad it’s over and I miss everyone. I wonder when I will see them again. The final workshop took place in Spain, at Sitges Film Festival, where we pitched to an invited audience. It went quite well, I think. It was my second time pitching to a large group of people, so I’m slowly getting used to it :)
My short film “Queen For A Day” got funded by the Film Workshop @ The Danish Film Institute, so I am in prep with that. Currently casting, I plan to shoot in January. It is very exciting!

​I finished the rewrite of “Jomana” for producer Gabriela Uweis in late June, and it came out really well! We both like the script a lot now. She submitted it for funding from the DOHA Film Institute and she is supposed to find out in mid November whether they want to support the project or not. Fingers crossed x

The Four Corners workshop in late May/early June was good fun! The weather was amazing, and we spent most of our days sitting in the gardens of Regent’s College. I got some good feedback, and even managed to steal a session with tutor Miguel Machalski on top of my sessions with Ana Magallon, and that was extremely helpful! Unfortunately I didn’t have much time to immerse myself in the 2nd draft over the summer, and I basically rewrote it the week before I had to submit it. Needless to say, it wasn’t as good as it could’ve have been!

The next workshop took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, in early September - and the weather was beyond good. It was sweltering! I got heat stroke, and was ‘out of order’ for 2 days with fever, nausea, no appetite, rapid pulse and a head that felt like mush. But I got some awesome feedback on the script - mostly thanks to fellow participant Ibai Siso - which now forms the basis for the 3rd draft that I am writing. We ended the workshop on a high: We all jumped into the pool, fully dressed! We should all do more things like that in life - it’s liberating :)

​Then we only had a month to prep for the 4th and final workshop in Sitges. We finished up the teaser, had a new poster designed and we were good to go. I only got halfway through the 3rd draft - I had intended to finish - but that was just way too ambitious of me. We arrived two days early and I finally got to see Barcelona! It was amazing. Barcelona rocks! In Sitges we enlisted the help of pitching guru, David Matamoros, and he really whipped us all into shape :)

I am currently in the process of switching producers on both “Fragments of Me” and “Queen For A Day”, so everything is a bit up in the air. When I know more, I’ll let you know! By the way, I also turned 35 on August 15th! I was in the middle of editing the teaser, but my editor, Birger, was so kind as to make me a birthday cake! And the weather was amazing that day! It’s usually not that nice, so I guess I’ve either been a good girl, or I have a good year ahead of me. I hope it’s the latter!

​Ta for now... xo