This month, everything that was planned (and more) all happened all at once.

We shot, developed and edited a lot, so get ready for a real handful of a blog!

We filmed the feature film ‘Beat Girl’ in London for beActive. It was a very intense four days with an Irish crew coming to London. We did everything that was requested and the crew flew back to Dublin with all the shots needed on the hard drive. We also did additional second unit establishing and second unit ‘beauty’ shots taking advantage of Mirko’s photography skills. It was our first time on EPIC which was a real joy to use. We understand why it is such a loved camera.

Afterwards, we did 8 x 3’ episodes of the ‘Beat Girl’ web series. It was all in one location, but it was still quite a tough shoot. All in one room, Louise Dylan and the camera. Nothing else. Inventing new angles was a very big challenge. But we did it!

All the footage was sent back to Portugal for the editing and we were really impressed with the results. The audience was quite impressed too and the episodes became real ‘big sellers’ on YouTube with several episodes on 30,000 and even 40,000 hits.

One amazing event of this month has been the Frontline screening of Uspomene 677. As far as war journalism is concerned, Frontline in Paddington is as good as it gets.

Frontline is the home of war journalism in London. An invitation to screen there in front of its membership made of war journalists is a dream come true. After applying several months ago, our dream became a reality. So we saw our film, the film that nobody wanted, to a virtually sold out screening at Frontline with some of the wonderful people who supported us all the way through, including Carlo and Sheila Floris and Roslyn from Noel Clarke’s Unstoppable Entertainment who were also our exec producers. We had ah hour long Q&A followed by two hours at the pub with a very partisan Serb fan, having a long and heated discussion with Mirko. Little did we know that, also thanks to this very screening, in a month or so we would have the chance to meet the one and only Nick Broomfield, be invited to his house and be asked to collaborate on several projects. Little, unfancied ‘Uspomene 677’ delivered again, against all odds to bring us up, one little step closer to our dream. Thank you Frontline.