Saturday afternoon our entire Peruvian cast and slightly sun-burnt crew gathered together for a "meet and greet," our first tri-lingual read-through, and a delicious lunch at Cuzco's beloved, Quinta Zarate. The whole event was transformative, having, for the first time, a room of actors, non-actors and street kids working together and breathing a collective breath of life into 96 pages of two-dimensional text. Despite the months of work that have gone into planning, scheduling, coordinating, casting, building, and costuming...it certainly felt like the start of something...something very good.
The next few days offer hardly a calm before the storm, and come Thursday morning, the whole game changes. The time has finally come to put our efforts into practice... amidst the demands of the moment, I stole a few seconds from our director, Josh Hyde, and I asked him about his hopes for the film at this time..."I've always had high hopes for this film," he responded. "My goal was always to get the film seen by as many people as possible, get the script read, and try to put something together, but, you know, now that we’re in the trenches I just want to make a good movie. And that good movie is going to be made shot by shot and sound bite by sound bite, and through these pieces that we collect hopefully we’ll be able to tell a really good story...one that honors the journey and the 7 or 8 years that it’s taken to make this film. That’s really all I can hope for at this point."
Be sure to check back soon, as things down here are just heating up! And just for fun...below is a video of Jorge Choquehuillca Huallpa, an acclaimed Cusquenian musician who will be appearing in our film as as a blind churango player! (Dan Fisher, our Director of Photographer, must have been so moved by his performance that he temporarily lost all sense of gravity)
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