Description
Unemployed Nici (37) is taken to a movie set for the first time by her uncle Olaf (67) as a security guard. But the seemingly easy job of briefly stopping a few pedestrians and drivers during the takes turns into a series of failures.
Director
Paul Baumann
As a native of Schwabing, I discovered the series Münchner Geschichten, Monaco Franze and Kir Royal while studying to be a teacher and realized: I want to be in film too. I wanted to tell similar stories; authentic, with subtle humor, full of life. And so I very naively applied to the University for Television and Film Munich and, of course, failed. But the desire to do something with film remained. And that's how I ended up on set; first as an intern, then as a set runner, then as a set production manager and today as the first production manager. And I learned a lot, very practical things about the film business that you would never know if you were "only" interested in films: how do you make a shooting schedule, what role do you actually have as a director, what does an assistant director do and what doesn't, what is a location manager, how does a day of shooting work, etc... So I learned how a film is made, especially from a technical point of view across all areas. In film, many different people come together, creative people, craftsmen, technicians and organizational talents, and it is somehow a special breed of people who work on a film set. That fascinated me and also led to the basic idea for this screenplay: To make a movie about a film set from the perspective of a blocker, a person who is at the bottom of the hierarchical order on set.
I've been working in production management for over seven years now, and the desire to make my own film has remained since my failed film-school application. Because actually, you're only responsible for organizational processes in production management, you're hardly asked to be creative.