Co-writer and director Danny Stack most recently worked on Thunderbirds Are Go!
But he’s been rather busy over the last year…
Danny Stack was a man on a mission.
He wanted to make a British family movie, aimed at the big screen, on a tight budget.
Without further ado, over to Danny…
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A year after wrap, the film is set to have its world premiere at the London Film Festival.
And how could you do something similar?
Indulge me for a moment, as we dip into a bit of background.
It was through the blog I met Tim Clague, the other co-writer/director onWKNN.
We started theUK Scriptwriterspodcastin 2010, basically a fun but proactive way to procrastinate.
This took me aback as Tim is more of a filmmaker than me.
Surely hed want his debut feature to be all his own directing work?
Just get the film made!
It was a refreshing attitude, and one I couldnt resist.
So we agreed to make a family film together, Coen brothers style.
At this stage, we didnt have a script, and we certainly didnt have any money.
But we werent going to let that stop us.
We applied all the filmmaking advice that we knew (or had given to others!
), and started breaking down the production into common sense chunks.
Number one on the list was to find the films main location.
We spent an afternoon brainstorming the idea and story.
Next on our list: set a date for the film.
This bit is important.
I think a few of them never expected to see us again there goes another low budget dreamer!
Now the hard part: money.
For us, this meant crowd funding via Kickstarter or IndieGoGo, and the like.
We chose Kickstarter, as its all or nothing, and more tailored towards filmmakers.
But over the course of three intensive months, we hit our Kickstarter target.
Filming commenced in the last week of August in 2014.
Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley fromHarry Potter) also joined us during this final week.
Something must have hit because soon we were getting enquiries about the film, and interest from industry insiders.
It was such a fun process, especially on set with our mischievous and cheeky cast!
