You would think you take a script and make a film. The story is fixed. But give the same script to different directors, actors, film editors and you will have two completely different films. How does that happen?Because directors interpret the scripts and extract the qualities they want from each actor. The same line – “what […]
Madiu Chute, film editor, is working on the rough cut of Sidetracked. Editing will continue for the next several months. Here is her report this week.”Currently, I am working on locking the picture, making sure everything is where it needs to be before we go in, and clean up the audio and the shots.”Note – […]
As the Sidetracked film opens, the camera pans the distressed neighborhood up the restaurant door where college student Mari waits tables. She narrates from the future, forty years later. Here’s what she has to say.
Actor Louis Celt has done epic work as Jack, the charismatic adventurer, in Sidetracked. Also this year, he created a non-linear film vignette series for his Senior Advanced Work Project (2021), Bennington College.He created this short film as a way of examining a broad range of states of being, showing the contradictions of college experience, […]