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Catching Up With Broken's Alex Ferrari

by Jeremy Hanke

In this month's issue of Microfilmmaker Magazine, our editor, Jeremy Hanke, had the priviledge to interview Alex Ferrari, the director of Broken. (Which received an 8.8 and procured our Editor's Choice of January award.)

JH: Alex, thanks for being here with us today. I know you must have been busy these past few months with all the Sundance goings on, so I appreciate you making time for this.

AF: Thanks for having me.

JH: So, I must ask before we continue, how did things go at Sundance this year?

AF: Excellent! We met with our producers and they love where the script is going. Jorge and I are putting the finishing touches the script and then move to pre-production and casting.

JH: So the writing on the new script's been going pretty well?

AF: Very well. We just finished a polish on it and are awaiting news from our producers.

JH: Do you know yet who'll end up distributing it and when the film will be coming out?

AF: We have no idea. The process to bring an indie film to the screen is a long and very unpredictable one. Hopefully soon.

JH: As I mentioned in both the critique of your short and your DVD, I really appreciated the fact that you created (or improved on) the special effects and filmmaking techniques you used and then shared them with the low budget community. What gave you the inspiration to believe you could accomplish this sort of action-intense short with this sort of professional polish at $8,000?

AF: I have been in post production for over 10 years and I understood what the tools could do. Both Jorge F. Rodriguez (producer/co-writer) and I wrote the VFX into the story and I had a pretty good idea on how we would accomplish them. We also wanted to prove that you could make a high quality product that could look as good as a big budget Hollywood film.

JH: Lighting was a huge part of your location production, so how much of your budget ended up going to light rental?

AF: We pulled some favors and made some deals but I think we got the 3 ton truck for $1000 for the week. The rental house was slow.

JH: What gave you the vision to create such an in-depth DVD?

AF: We truly did not have the DVD in mind when we shot the short. It was an after thought. I mean who would pay $20.00 to buy a 20 min short film? Only after we got the attention we did and people started demanding that we put it out on DVD so they could buy it did we decide to package the DVD with 3 hours of special feature and 6 commentary tracks which is available at whatisbroken.com. (shameless plug!)

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