Tower: World Premiere On The Horizon

Back in January 2011, I started working with two young filmmakers, who had embarked on their first feature film.

This film, "Tower", is now through post-production and is slated for its World Premiere at the 65th Festival de Film Locarno in Switzerland, in August.

My role in this film was Diane, the mother of the protagonist. The footage was shot over several months and subject to a lot of stop-start-stop, as all personnel were volunteering their time for much of the production.

One interesting aspect to this production is that the Director, Kaz Radwanski, allows his actors to improvise all the dialogue. That is, no scripts, no lines to learn. At times, some of the "takes" ran for 20 minutes as we improvised based on the direction we had been given.

MDFF, the company producing "Tower", has set up a site where you can learn a little more about the film. But, be warned, the website seems to be set up for mammoth screens only. You can find the details at the following link.

http://www.mdff.ca/tower

All being well, I've included a couple of snaps of two of my co-stars, one I worked with directly in the early days, and one I never met! (I'll let you guess which is which!)

Fore more details about the Locarno premier or about the website, Dan is the contact @mdff.ca

Copyright Deborah C. Sawyer