In this conversation with director Vivian Säde and producer Eve Tisler we talk about a short film we’ve been working on (named Echo and created around the monodrama Sentiment by Juliana Hall and Caitlin Vincent) in order to talk openly about all the work that goes into any creative project, even when things never actually “click” to make the project to happen. We also talk about “women filmmakers,” budgets, artists and mental health and how opera on film is gatekept, among other things.

YouTube version (with supplementary images): https://youtu.be/7nKWWPi-pWg

A blog post talking more deeply about the EU grant escapade: https://soprano-on-the-verge.blogspot.com/2021/11/was-ist-kunst-on-bureaucracy-and-work.html

Contents (add 30 seconds to accommodate intro):

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:18 The Logline
00:01:29 The First Two Years: From Test Shoot to EU Grant Escapade
00:09:28 New Beginnings: Teaming Up with Vivian
00:13:15 Eve Comes on as Producer
00:13:59 Choosing the Right Collaborators

00:16:27 A Detour with a Czech Producer

00:18:48 Women in the Film Industry
00:24:45 Echo: The Producer's Point of View

00:27:11 What IS a producer, anyway?

00:34:53 Our Estonian Experimental Film Fund Application

00:36:15 The Realities of Short Film Budgets and Paying Your Crew

00:41:21 Women Aging IN to the Film Industry

00:45:48 Artists and Mental Health
00:52:32 The Committee Evaluation of the Estonian Experimental Film Fund
00:58:36 The Particular Difficulty of Funding an Opera Film

01:02:52 Reinventing Opera, the Voice, and the point of making Echo
01:08:23 Final Thoughts (and a Final Plaint About the American Funding System)

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