making the movie: sub-zero
On the day the Glasgow Film Festival announces a screening of my movie – Sat 23 Feb at GFT2 – I travel to Tinto Hill to reshoot a sequence, not content with the original shot during the summer of 2009 because of poor light and low contrast. If there’s one thing you can’t buy it’s the weather, especially during a Scottish summer.
In 2007, the year I began shooting The Devil’s Plantation, I became obsessed with weather since virtually…
update 9: GFF13
On Saturday 23rd February,The Devil’s Plantation finally screened at the Glasgow Film Festival. Billed as an eagerly-awaited world premiere, it was only completed last Wednesday, the day I learned it had sold out. To say I was surprised is an understatement.
On the morning of the screening, I rush to the GFT to check that the film is glitch-free. Here I meet Barney McCue, their legendary chief projectionist, who tells…