In
this month's issue of Microfilmmaker Magazine, our editor,
Jeremy Hanke, had the priviledge to interview Alex Ferrari,
the director of Broken. (Which
received an 8.8 and procured our Editor's Choice of January
award.)
JH:
Alex, thanks for being here with us today. I know you
must have been busy these past few months with all the
Sundance goings on, so I appreciate you making time for
this.
AF:
Thanks for having me.
JH:
So, I must ask before we continue, how did things go at
Sundance this year?
AF:
Excellent! We met with our producers and they love where
the script is going. Jorge and I are putting the finishing
touches the script and then move to pre-production and
casting.
JH:
So the writing on the new script's been going pretty well?
AF:
Very well. We just finished a polish on it and are awaiting
news from our 
producers.
JH:
Do you know yet who'll end up distributing it and when
the film will be coming out?
AF:
We have no idea. The process to bring an indie film to
the screen is a long and very unpredictable one. Hopefully
soon.
JH:
As I mentioned in both the critique of your short and
your DVD, I really appreciated the fact that you created
(or improved on) the special effects and filmmaking techniques
you used and then shared them with the low budget community.
What gave you the inspiration to believe you could accomplish
this sort of action-intense short with this sort of professional
polish at $8,000?
AF:
I have been in post production for over 10 years and
I understood what the tools could do. Both Jorge F. Rodriguez
(producer/co-writer) and I wrote the VFX into the story
and I had a pretty good idea on how we would accomplish
them. We also wanted to prove that you could make a high
quality product that could look as good as a big budget
Hollywood film.
