The need for traditionalism!?

Sun, 07/12/2009 - 12:41 — Per

The world is pacted (!) with people wanting to tell stories, to entertain, to move, to make a change - through film making. That is good. There are also plenty of ways to get a movie made, and new ways are added each day. That is even better!

Still many years after Francis Ford Coppola talked in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse about how video (or at least easily accessible ways of film production) would transform the professionalism of movies, and through this, film would really become an art film. That change hasn't come, has it!?

I will be in charge of what perhaps could be called the most traditional side of this production - to set up the production practically and be responsible for what "normal" movie financing we can find. Our plan is to do The Pact as a Swedish-Canadian co-production; shoot in Canada, post-production in Sweden. This way we hope to attract and secure financing through The Swedish Film Institute, Telefilm Canada and other soft-money providers for the industry on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

This work will be mirrored in this blog, and I hope to get good assistance from you all to do this in the best possible way. So any kind of input is welcome; who to work with, what to do, what NOT to do etc. I'm really looking forward to working together on this.

Sure film is art, but most of all film is a lot of traditionalists desperately clinging on to old tracks leading nowhere. That traditionalism adds nothing to the business other than making a norm out of mediocrity. I'd love to find new ways. I believe The Pact Project can be a part of that search. Let's bust those tracks!

Per

traditionalist producer