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REAL BUDDY is a low budget, independent production by Mineworks Film. Keeping costs as low as possible is vital for that kind of work. Among many other tactics to achieve that for us is [...]

The next couple of days will be used now to finalize our shot list for the VFX dept. headed by Tobias Richter from The Light Works in Cologne to specify the best way to get those effects [...]

Ramin Sabeti and I have been in the editing room the entire weekend again and today we finished the first fine cut version of the first 60 minutes of the movie. At the end of the day, we [...]

This morning, before we started editing again, we had a bunch of people in front of our AVID to do a quick and unofficial test screening. To our pleasure, laughs and excitement happened [...]

Happy new year to you all ! We´ve used most of the X-Mas holidays to fine tune a couple of more scenes. Many of them are almost finished by now, but there´s still a lot to be done. [...]

This has been the longest day of phase III and it´s not over yet. Everything has to be cleaned, put in cases and stored within the set´s perimeter to be transported the next day. I´m tired [...]

During wrapping, I realize we have forgotten a take. Great. After I personally checked and packed all the camera gear. It doesn´t help. We need that shot. I recruite Hanno again. He´s a bit [...]

It´s seven in the morning, sun´s already up and I decide to get everybody up again by shouting “WRAP !!”as loud as I can. Noone is amused, but at least, they wake up.