I’m currently in full production of my first ever proper documentary! We’ve shot for two days so far, mainly interviews, but it’s been going great so far.

It’s been a good learning process to actually have to interview and shoot people in their ordinary lifes instead of always having to focus on telling a story. Of course, a story is proposed for the film but it sort of eveolves throughout the production process, as you obviously can’t count on people saying what you want them to.

We’re going back later today to prepare for the upcoming three days when we’ll focus more on shooting cutaways and shots of the small village we’re filming in. Should be fun – it’s great to spend so much time outdoors and have a smaller crew.

So for all you nerds (including me), what are we shooting on? Our main camera is a Panasonic HMC-151, with two Canon 7Ds as B and C camera. We’re also using two wireless microphones which really are a treat!

Pictures should be up soon, as the film draws closer to wrapping and it’s page being launched on the website!

Take care everyone!

Great news! The new movie pages are now up and running, and can be found by browsing the top menu bar. At first glance I think you’ll see a big difference – instead of showing you all of our films in one huge dropdown menu we’ve added the ability to filter the type of film you’d like to see. Let me give you a breakdown of what each of the categories mean:

Featurettes
These are the main productions of the company, often requiring the whole team. A requierment for being in this category is a running time of more than five minutes. In this section you can always find the latest big film project we’re working on.

Short Films
These are mostly films that are made in film school, or as a fun side project. Normally, only films with a running time of five minutes or shorter appear here. But there can be exceptions!

Documentaries
We have recently started work on our first ever proper documentary, set to start shooting in the next few weeks. We’ll have the latest info on this page, which will act as a big centre for everything documentary-related which are similar to featurettes. This section will launch along with our new documentary very soon!

Commercial
Here you’ll mainly find music videos, event films, photoshoots and other films which were made for another company, and can be considered the portfolio section of our paid work. This section will launch soon due to the rights being a bit more tricky to figure out.

Tests
Finally I’m able to sort all of our short and small test films on one large page (it looks pretty gorgeous to be honest with you). Previously test films have only been included in blog posts – I’ve gone back three years in my blogroll and re-encoded every test to HD and uploaded it to Vimeo!

But what about new movies? Well, in the Short Films section you’ll find two entire new films, Moth and Sovrummet, which I’ve made at film school. Recently struck a deal with them which made me be able to post the films online here. Expect more films to pop up shortly!

I’m also planning to have some sort of Portfolio or CV section of the website where I’ll be able to permanently keep a record on films I’ve worked on, but not directed.

Hope you all like the new design! I’m now off to set up a shooting script for our first ever documentary!

Take care everyone!

The movies page of the website is being updated! This is to improve categorization and easier readability for people visiting the website. We’re growing quickly as a company – which means we’ll have to do some rebuilding around the company, but hopefully you’ll like the slightly redesigned Movies section when it launches later this week!

Until the new section is online, check out our YouTube and Vimeo channel where all of our movies are still online!

Take care everyone!

Currently we’re full at work on the Harry Spexter DVD which should be done shortly, while starting pre-production seriously on a documentary project I’ll be directing two weeks from now on a small country town here in Sweden. Very interesting, as it’s the first documentary project I’ve ever made (not including some small travel diaries) and a big challenge. Spending the day on the phone and calling around people for the project. Me and my small team are also going down to the location this upcoming Monday to check it out, get inspiration and hopefully get an idea to see what will and won’t work.

Doing some reading up on the GoPro HD cameras – I know a friend who has access to one of them and I think it may be put to some use during the upcoming shoot, maybe as a hidden camera!

Work also continues on the Harry Spexter DVD – it’s been a while, but there’s also been a big bunch of projects, both in school and for the company which has required my time. But don’t fear, it’ll be quite awesome, and be released relatively shortly.

As it stands right now though, the main focus is on our documentary project which really is my next film project, and I’m really gearing up mentally for the shoot – which will be very different from what I’m used to.

Exciting times ahead! Planning to hopefully be able to write something every day during the documentary shoot and possibly post some pictures as well from the shoot.

More info coming soon! Take care everyone!

After several months of work, the post-production process of Csaba Bene Perlenberg‘s latest film 21 is finally done which aso means the film is completed. Redhawk Productions acted as co-producer on the project, with Nils Croné working as 1st AD on the film and Fredrik Steffen shooting stills during ome of the production. Redhawk Productions also loaned out a bunch of equipment to the shoot.

The film was shot during late summer of 2010 after being in pre-production during several months. It’s working title was Short Film #21, and had a pretty big marketing campaign mostly based on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, but also extending to painting a big graffiti wall in central Malmö:

The short behind-the-scenes video above was shot by Martin Wikner, who you’ll be getting to know more in the following year!

The short film (around 29 minutes) is about a young man who has to deal with his own conscience and gambling addiction while dealing and exploiting his mother who lives with Alzheimer’s disease.

Among the actors in the film are Mattias Malmgren, Karin Bertling, Jim Zachau and Pinar Karaaslan. The film was directed by Csaba Bene Perlenberg with DoP Chris Maris behind the camera.

Working as 1st AD was a fun experience and I learned a LOT during the production. My work with Csaba started in 2009 when I worked as script supervisor on his last film, Superhjälten. After shooting this film and having such a good time, we’ve decided to work together yet again on his new big film project, which I’ll have some more details on in the upcoming months.

So, thanks for showing your support to the project which now has over a thousand fans on Facebook, and hopefully we’ll be able to distribute the film over loads of different vendors and channels as the film grows during the spring!

Speak more soon, take care everyone!