Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: October 05, 2010, 10:49:01 PM »Ken on the film from here
www.easycreditcardsuk.com/4197/britains-best-film-directors-show-some-early-promise/
“I was 30 at the time, I wanted to get into the film industry and I just thought of this idea. Filming took two weeks and I was very, very fortunate in that I had a brilliant young actress to play the main role of Amelia. Her name was Mercedes Quadros and she was the daughter of an Argentinian diplomat, recommended to me by a friend. I met her, was enchanted by her and her father gave her permission to play the part.
“She was delightful, no trouble at all– as long as I gave her scary whirlwind rides in an old, broken-down Morris 8 I had she was as good as gold. I remember she fell over on the steps of the Albert Memorial at one point and broke her hand, the poor devil. In most of the film, she has her right hand turned away from the camera. I’ve met her again now that she’s grown up. she lives in Argentina, with her kids. she looks back with fond memories.
“Funding the film wasn’t a difficulty– it cost peanuts. I didn’t have much money at the time, about £100, but that was enough to make the film. When I had finished it, I showed it to Huw Wheldon at the BBC. He got me a job on... Monitor... he wasn’t expecting a film of that sort of quality. it got me into the BBC and launched me on my career, as it were."
www.easycreditcardsuk.com/4197/britains-best-film-directors-show-some-early-promise/
“I was 30 at the time, I wanted to get into the film industry and I just thought of this idea. Filming took two weeks and I was very, very fortunate in that I had a brilliant young actress to play the main role of Amelia. Her name was Mercedes Quadros and she was the daughter of an Argentinian diplomat, recommended to me by a friend. I met her, was enchanted by her and her father gave her permission to play the part.
“She was delightful, no trouble at all– as long as I gave her scary whirlwind rides in an old, broken-down Morris 8 I had she was as good as gold. I remember she fell over on the steps of the Albert Memorial at one point and broke her hand, the poor devil. In most of the film, she has her right hand turned away from the camera. I’ve met her again now that she’s grown up. she lives in Argentina, with her kids. she looks back with fond memories.
“Funding the film wasn’t a difficulty– it cost peanuts. I didn’t have much money at the time, about £100, but that was enough to make the film. When I had finished it, I showed it to Huw Wheldon at the BBC. He got me a job on... Monitor... he wasn’t expecting a film of that sort of quality. it got me into the BBC and launched me on my career, as it were."