A salute to everyone reading this interview.I was fortunate to talk with an expertise, talented and ingenious filmmaker, and I discovered theses traits from him was by the simple fact of watching his latest horror-thriller movie MARIONETTE and yes! I am talking about ELBERT VAN STRIEN; from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, at the age of 12, he already knew what he wanted to do when grow up: Filmmaker. Wonderful, ah.
After goes and backs, years of learnings and gaining experience filming works like: Two Eyes Staring and Uncle Hank regarding feature format, he comes now with MARIONETTE, a well-made movie and I mean, the script, photo, locations, actors, everything. The story is engaging, thought-provoking, philosophical, it blows your mind out, you know, you are watching it and you ah ok, it goes for this way and then boom! no, it's not! it yells out of your face, It's great, you people should go and watch it, really, won't regret it. The movie tells the story of child psychiatrist, Marianne Winter, who begins treating a disturbed 10-year-old boy who draws pictures of horrific events that later all come true. That's a raw description of the plot. The movie was released last year on October 22 via theaters and Digital and it had a VOD release on November 3, last year too by Scatena & Rosner Films in the USA.
As a curious fact is for the development of this movie a huge hollywood actor was close to get involved (You'll know it reading the interview), but Elbert sacrificed that in exchange to have his vision untouched, that is the thing, to tell the story you really want to tell. Friends, as always we asked about general things from him to specific questions related to pre-production, principal photography, post production, the reasons to shoot this movie, how it was born, what is his creative process and the usual ups and downs when making a movie, no matter the budget, Ah! and lots of helpful advice for all the newbie filmmakers out there, so, come on! Scroll down and read this blow mind interview.
