Short interview: Nathalie Teirlinck

How long did it take to make your short? Was it difficult to get financing?
It took about 10 months to write, produce, shoot and edit the film (7 days of actual shooting).
I got the financing before I started to write the short thanks to an award of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, it’s an award based on your student films that allows you to make a new film without going through the regular process of filmfunding submission. Part of the Post Production was financed thanks to a prize I received with my previous short film involving Post Production facilities.

Which thoughts come to mind concerning a “European cinema community”?
A platform where the passion for film bounds everyone. An atmosphere to exchange ideas and experience, fruitful encounters between the young and more established generation of European Film members, a place for debate, interesting lectures and workshops. Trying to make the European film vivid as ‘film’ is a fast changing medium.

If you owned a theatre for one night, which films would you screen?
Paris Texas by Wim Wenders, Boy meets Girl by Leos Carrax, Il Deserto Rosso by Antonioni, The Loss of Sexual Innocence by Mike Figgis, La Pianiste by Haneke.

What is your next project?
I’m recently working on the script of my first feature film and I’m writing and directing my second piece at the service of theatre.

Courtesy of European Film Academy, 2011.