Duck & Cover, 4min., USA
Directed by Vincent Truman
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Get to know the filmmaker:
1. What motivated you to make this film?
Answer: “Duck & Cover” started as a ten-minute piece at a festival outside Portland, Oregon. I was so enthralled with the writing and performance that I tracked down the writer, Meg Wiles, and actor, Gabby Bosso, and basically begged them to let me turn it into a film. It was too good to just disappear into the creative ether.
2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?
Answer: Meg Wiles and I corresponded for a few months, throwing drafts back and forth to each other as we whittled the ten-minute stage piece down to a four-minute film. Once we agreed on the final product, it took about a month to gather Gabby and the crew into a rented classroom. So, short answer: four months.
3. How would you describe your film in two words!?
Answer: Duck, cover.
4. What was the greatest obstacle you faced in completing this film?
Answer: renting the classroom. The paperwork took about as long as it took to shoot the film.
5. There are 5 stages of the filmmaking process: Development. Pre-Production. Production. Post-Production. Distribution.
What is your favorite stage of the filmmaking process?
Answer: Development. Bouncing drafts of the film back and forth with the original author was a study in diplomacy, respect and desire to create something unique.
6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?
Answer: I used to do a lot of theater (directing, acting, writing, blah blah blah). As live and immediate as theater is, it does not last beyond the curtain call. I wanted more permanence.
7. What film have you seen the most times in your life?
Answer: The Great Race, a (now) obscure broad and very silly comedy with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
8. In a perfect world: Who would you like to work with/collaborate with on a film?
Answer: Larry David or Christopher Guest.
9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experience been working on the festival platform site?
Answer: it gives a lot of good experience in getting rejected.
10. What is your favorite meal?
Answer: somewhere between unagi/sushi and hot dogs from Costco.
11. What is next for you? A new film?
Answer: I just finished what I think is a wonderful piece called Sex Doll, again starring Gabby Bosso, and am in the process of getting it rejected from various festivals worldwide.
