Our actors arrive. Deborah Friedman, our “forecaster” and Brian Thomas, our “anchorman”. It makes me proud to know they´re on board, not only because they are the ideal cast for the scene with Brian being a real American TV host and Deborah working in the same field at “Deutsche Welle TV”, but also they were our choice from the very beginning of the production. One might have suspected they would have lost interest over the long time we weren´t able to continue work on the film, but it was no problem at all. As we started contacting people, telling them BUDDY would start again, the feedback of all the guys involved before and behind the camera was overwhelming. Nobody blamed us for the delay at all. They all were happy to start work on BUDDY again. Guess being professionals, they are used to such delays on independent productions.