Nina with legend
Browsing through an old picture archive I recently found this nice pic of Nina at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2005 where we were with our first film Bata-ville: We are Not Afraid of the Future.
One of the perks of being selected for this festival was a dinner with the festival director and this photo was taken at ours, at which legendary cinematographer Jack Cardiff (1915 - 2009) also attended. Being first-time directors and very green, we didn't quite realise that this was the legendary man responsible for pushing colour cinema in its early days, with credits such as Black Narcissus, The African Queen and Death on the Nile to his name.
If the two met now I'm sure a lively conversation about using the new Canon 5d on our new film would ensue - we'll never know!
1 Comment:
My recollection of the evening is a lot of confusing shouting due to bad acoustics, old people with hearing problems and delegates with English as a second language ... No one introduced us to Jack Cardiff by name so I spent most of the evening watching him struggle with his pizza and trying to work out from what he said which of the cinema legends attending the festival he was - without having to ask him directly!
Nina, October 13, 2010 17:18
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