Snow! Snow on the North Circular! What the f…!! I thought we were through this madness.
I’m diving to Bristol Watershed for the second leg of our tour. I have visions of us being stuck in a blizzard, snow ploughs sent to dig us out like the poor people of Washington on the TV last night. But, by the time we’ve reached Chiswick, it’s like the Costa Del Sol and I’m wishing I’d brought my Ray Bans.
Helen is with me but also joining us at The Watershed is Adrian Dunbar who I haven’t seen for ages. We use to live in the same area of London and had a few mutual friends back then but our paths haven’t crossed since, so it’s wonderful to see him. He’s well turned out, in an immaculate three piece pin striped suit. I feel a little under-dressed as I take the stage in my jeans and sweat shirt!
The majority of the people at the talk here in Bristol have made at least one short film so their questions are more about getting to the next stage of production, feature film finance or longer TV drama, rather than how to get started in the first place. Adrian wrote and starred in the brilliant Hear My Song as well as developing his own independent films, so his insights were valuable to those people who saw themselves as writer/directors.
We also talked about the great directors we’d had the pleasure of working with – John Boreman, Paul Greengrass, Peter Chelsom amongst others – and I was enjoying chatting to him so much I nearly forgot to open it out to a Q&A for the audience.
Afterwards, we also talked about the match that night, Arsenal (his team) and Liverpool (mine). Thankfully, he had to head home early so wasn’t there to gloat at their rather dodgy one nil victory at The Emirates.
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