Breaking Out of The Zone

I took a break from editing this morning to go for a quick run. I get some of my best ideas while running – my brain seems to recharge itself when I get myself into that zone. On my way back, I ran over a little bridge on a busy highway –

What Did He Say...?

… because we didn’t know. We really didn’t. It was all in Italian, it was fast, and it was an hour-long interview.

Editing a documentary film project in a language you don’t speak is pretty ambitious. Even more insane is to self-fund that project and to travel to a foreign country to complete that documentary… in the language you don’t speak. As one dear filmmaking friend of mine expressed it more succinctly, it’s “bloody insane.”

Forza

We’ve seen the people of the Cinque Terre use the word “forza” – or “strength” – quite a bit over the past weeks. They use it with a definitive kind of solidarity that punctuates the word even more.

But this is nothing new – “forza” has been a theme with the people of the Cinque Terre for well over 1000 years in their struggle to carve a lasting way of life out of this rugged, spectacular landscape.