Update from Stuart

hi all, ok, getting pretty close now to pre production for the film. that’s the time when all the “heads of departments” arrive at HQ in Govan, and go to work on whatever their speciality is.. Will i tell you what the various heads are? As far as i can work it out, they are Director Of Photography: everything you see. he’s the boss. camera and lighting. 1st Assistant Director: Runs the show logistically. Plans the schedule, cracks the whip. …
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april 9, 2012. progress, and auditions. (from stuart)

Hello all, and especially hello to the people who recently handed in their auditions for God Help The Girl. Thought I’d give you a general update of the film’s progress… We are heading now for a June 26th start in …
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Colleagues & Collaborators

My dear colleagues, in fact, let me go further, fellow collaborators… Together we have reached the splendid total of $121,000. You have given us confidence, you have given us a big green light that says ‘GO!’, and go we shall. …
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Barry freezes up on Munich!

It was the 11th week of shooting Munich. We had converted an abandoned hockey rink in Budapest into the Olympic Village set.  The building was almost entirely underground and we were oblivious to night and day.  Focused. Alongside shooting, young …
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Kickstarter update from Stuart

Hi kickstarter people and everyone else, Just want to say hi. I’ve been laying quite low, leaving other to adminstrate this whole process. Last night I went through the names of all the contributors. I was surprised to see how …
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Update from Barry

Hello All! A little update as we hit the halfway mark in the Kickstarter campaign. Stuart is off taking walks around the City and the neighboring countryside, his last chance to daydream on the script for a spell.  Meanwhile, we …
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We launch our Kickstarter campaign

Hi guys It does indeed seem that the possibility of making the film is getting closer. I said to Barry, the producer of God Help The Girl, that I needed to make the film in summer 2012. It would just …
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Stuart's favourite actors - top 10

10 Humphrey Bogart Bogart’s so iconic that he features in two if my favourite films that he’s not even in! His character from Casablanca is Woody Allen’s ‘mentor’ in Play it Again, Sam, and he’s an inspiration to Jean Paul …
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Stuart's top 50 actors - 30 to 11

30 Steve Buscemi Steve Buscemi is memorable in pretty much whatever he does. He’s played amazing character roles in such films as Ghost World and The Big Lebowski, but he can totally carry a film too, as he does in …
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