Since our movie deals with dementia, our associate producer and myself, went to a dementia care facility, where we met with the director and got to tour the place. It was great to see what products are out to help people living with this and how their brains work. As director, I definitely wanted to gain as much knowledge in this area as possible to help me better direct, as I have no “hands on” experience with this.

Obstacles and Setbacks

Now it may seem that everything has gone relatively smoothly, but that wasn’t the case.

For about a month it seemed that every time one thing had gone right, then two things had gone wrong. There was one straight week where I couldn’t eat anything but bread and I was sleeping about two hours at a time. I was making myself sick over things that weren’t totally in my control. I felt the weight of the whole project on me that week and didn’t know how to pull this out.

But then I said to myself: you’ve made it this far by bringing to reality what you’ve said you were going to do. You’re going to make it the rest of the way just the same.

The word here is perseverance. Now, I’m not trying to pat myself on the back. I’m just saying that’s what you need for this. No one is handing us anything in this production. If we didn’t go out and fight for it, we would have nothing. There would be no movie.

You can’t concentrate on what’s going wrong, you have to see the problem and figure out a new way to get the end result you want.

It Takes a Village to Make a Movie (So Build the Best Village You Can)

Let me brag about my crew a bit more, because without them, none of this would be possible.