It is with no small amount of relief I can reveal to you that the twelfth and final film for 12:12 has been shot.
The shoot was on Friday, April 27, less than three weeks before our deadline. Cutting a little close, perhaps. I’m pleased to report everything went very well.
Film number twelve is called What Remains and is about three siblings who must decide between honouring their dead mother’s wishes or carrying out their own plans for her remains.
I kept the last one simple, probably wise, under the circumstances. We shot in two locations, the first at a home in Mosman and the second on a cliff-top park in Dover Heights.
We had a cast of three, Eden Falk, Megan Drury and Lâle Teoman who were all fantastic as the brothers and sisters of this little story. They did a great job of bringing out subtle little nuances in the characters of the three siblings.
Also on set was Jonathan Tyler our DoP, Anna Hildebrandt our Producer, Micheline Siou Cam San our long-standing Make-up Artist and Ross Clutton our Sound Recordist. The crew were great, and this was probably the most relaxed shoot of the twelve. Maybe I'm just starting to get into the groove.
Special thanks to Julia and Derek Parker who kindly opened their doors to us for the location of the mother’s house and put up with us turning their house upside down and then up the right way again.
After shooting in Mosman we had to race over to Dover Heights for the second location. We had found a perfect second location nearby to our Mosman location, but the Harbour Trust was going to charge us nearly two grand to shoot there for the afternoon. Ah, no thanks Harbour Trust.
Luckily Waverley Council allows crews under ten people to shoot for $0. And in the end, I can’t imagine a more perfect spot. We were losing the light for the last shot (as always) but luckily there was a corridor of light on the park as the sun set right between two buildings and we nabbed that. It couldn’t have been more perfect lighting for the scene.
Well that’s all the shooting done! Now it’s a race to knock all twelve into some kind of shape in time for the Sydney screening on April 16th. If you’re in Sydney, I really hope you can make it. If you haven’t received your invitation yet, please let me know.
Right, now back to work.