2024-10-29
26 分钟When we were scouting in the Czech Republic, we've looked at several locations and it was shooting the winter, so the Czech crew came with us and I said, oh, the sun will be right here at 11am and my first ad was very wild, took notes, said, okay, we're going to shoot here at 11am and the crew looked at me like, what are you talking about?
There is no sun in the winter here.
And every time we got to one of the locations, the sky open up.
The sun was there for an hour and a half.
So we were very blessed.
Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild of America.
In this episode, a young boy learns of his grandmother's youth during World War II in director Mark Forrester's family drama White Bird.
The film follows Julian, who struggles to fit into his new school after being expelled for bullying a student.
When his grandmother hears of his expulsion, she attempts to transform his outlook on life by sharing the story of her youth in Nazi occupied France.
In addition to White Bird, Forster's other directorial credits include the feature films Monsters Ball, Stranger Than Fiction, the Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace, World War Z and A Man Called Otto and episodes of the series Hand of God.
He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion pictures for his 2004 feature Finding Neverland.
Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Forster spoke with director Michael Pressman about filming White Bird.
Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.
I'm Michael, this is Mark.
Hi.
And a absolutely, absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful film that you make.
I was truly, it's uplifting, it's devastating.
It's got magical realism, which seems to be a theme for you and other films that I've seen of yours that are also quite beautiful.
And I'm going to say one thing just about our world today.
I felt like I was witnessing the possibility of the hysteria and the hypnosis of belief in a dictator.