Yesterday me and my friend Ingela, who is visiting in Stockholm, went to the Dreamfactory, a mini festival about film and filmmaking.
It started out very nicely, when Calle my boyfriend called a cab, it proved to be Morgan, a Brucefan that Mikael and I had interviewed for the film, who was behind the wheel. Morgan works as a taxidriver and now he took us to Filmhuset for the festival party.
There were a lot of people there and we soon started talking and mingling. I took a flyer for our film project and walked straight up to Leif Pagrotsky, the swedish minister for Culture. I handed him the flyer and told him a bit about our film and how we try to get an interview with Bruce.
– Why don’t you meet him when he comes here?, the secretary asked.
– We’re trying to arrange an interview, if we don’t get one when he comes here, we’ll try to stop by New Jersey when we go to Nashvill to interview Garry Tallent, the bass player in E Street Band. By the way, do you know how we can finance our film?
-Try the Swedish Film Institute.
– Ok, but do you have any other suggestions?
– The department of culture only hands out the money to the big institutions, I don’t have the names of them all, you’d have to search for them yourself.
– Thanks!
As the evening passed by I also met Mattias and Mathilde, we practise karate together and they proved to be in the film business too. Perhaps we can arrange a joint venture, we need a cameraman and a sound technician for the US-trip, and Mattias was interested in working as a cameraman. We also invited them to party with us at Candy’s Room in May.
We also met with Per Holm, he’s a consultant for Film i Västerbotten. Per knows Ingela well, because he’s financing her film.
Here you can read more about Film i Västerbotten and their work.
Per proved to be a devoted Brucefan too, and we talked a lot about our film, the music, our plans, and the interview with Mr. Tallent. He wanted to see our storyboard, budget and know more about our film. It sounds very promising, and maybe we’ll be able to get some financing from Film i Västerbotten!
We had a truly wonderful night at the party, we did a lot of networking and hopefully it will really benefit our film!