This year seems to have been a big year for movies celebrating filmmaking. Obviously a short film titled “The Moviegoers” is no exception. The entire premise of the film is that it’s an homage to Richard Linklater’s film Before Sunrise, where two characters meet by chance and establish a surprisingly strong connection to each other.
The cast and crew for the film was small, making the experience much more laid back and intimate than many other films I’d worked on. It was nice to work at a good pace, not particularly pressed for time. (I
We tried to create a film with characters who contradict themselves, their conversation partially flirtatious and partially a duel of words. The two main characters seem to have an unspoken struggle between which of them is more interesting, can hold the attention of the other longer. I hope this feeling will be familiar to the audience. This competition of wits is the only way I know how to flirt, and I hope someone else will be able to identify with that condition.
