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Make Lemonade

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 26th, 2015|A Mother's Journey, Film|0 Comments

AMJ: Script I describe myself as a reluctant producer, because in order to get my work out there I’ve had to pick up the mantle and run with getting things done by myself. Not something I’d recommend, however, there are times when needs must. The problem with producing and directing a film is that one ends up being pulled in too many directions. I guess the lesson learned from writing, producing and directing both of my short films - I did have some help with More Cake - is that I can’t do both jobs real justice and I find that it’s the creative and fun stuff that ends up suffering, because I’m so focussed on making sure the other critical elements are in place. AMJ: Slate I could’ve tried to find another producer when the producer I was working with suddenly quit. However, I knew [...]

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AMJ: Beginning With the Script

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 22nd, 2015|A Mother's Journey, Film, Thoughts|0 Comments

I’m not one for keeping a diary, so I’m writing the next series of blog pieces on the making of A Mother’s Journey with cracked rose tinted glasses. Maybe someone else can learn from my mistakes and also from my experience. Weeks have gone by, so the pain coupled with high anxiety have all but disappeared, leaving me with the feeling that the experience wasn’t as bad as I remember it. The Book I guess the first question to answer for my fan of one, is why this story/film? Well my journey into filmmaking started with my desire to see Imagine This on the big screen. Some might say it’s egotistical of me to want to see my own novel adapted into a film, but I feel it’s a story worth telling as a film. But then I would say that because I wrote the book. Anyway to cut [...]

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The Spiked Boulevard of Broken Dreams

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00August 22nd, 2015|Film, Random|0 Comments

I’ve always loved watching films and I can spend a whole day in front of a TV screen or at the cinema, lost in the land of celluloid. I’ve also always loved reading and have been known to bring a book to a party. I know, boring and socially awkward doesn’t even begin to describe my teen years. That however is a story for another day. Let’s just say, growing up I had two escapes from my dreary life, books and television. At school I excelled in the arts subjects and failed woefully at anything else. Which meant that when it came to choosing a career; doctor, accountant or engineer and anything that required maths or science was scratched off the list my father had compiled. I think I was thirteen when I decided a career as a newsreader would suffice, that was until I stood in front of my [...]

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Post has begun on the new film

By Sade|2016-12-31T02:17:30+00:00June 23rd, 2015|Film, Self promotion, Thoughts|0 Comments

I've not been dedicated in keeping this blog up to date. Not because I've particularly been lazy, but mainly because I've been so busy, first with pre-production, then with filming and then with returning everything and finally with getting things back on an even keel. Today or I should say yesterday, seeing as it's 1am; I hit another milestone. YAY. I handed over the precious cargo that is my raw footage, to the editor. OMG, on one level I feel like a surrogate mother who has carried and nurtured a baby for nine months only to hand the child over to another mother once it has entered this world. Trying to find a suitable editor was a tricky process, I met five wonderful candidates who were willing to work on A Mother's Journey for very little pay and I really couldn't choose between them. Rather than flip a coin, it actually came [...]