Restless
Written & Directed
by
Akona Matyila








..............coming this week.

Inspiration

"Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive" - Martin Scorsese

Trailer

Finally I have finished cutting a little trailer sample of the short. I have taken a long time in finishing this movie, partly because of huge technical issues (I must say they seem to follow me whereever I go) and also because I just wanted to remove myself from it so I can come back with a different perspective. A lot of people are waiting for a cut in anticipation and frankly this film has come to be an albatros around my neck.....but there is a film and I believe in it whole-heatedly so I must put it out there so that I can move on to another project that's been in gestation for a while. Its been an incredible journey with Restless and I also cannot wait to see the finished product, which will hopefully be sometime next month. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer. (That's to those who follow this blog :-) Till next time.

Please can you follow this link which will lead you directly to the trailer.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=10150199818213243&subj=644333242

The restless mind

The short is completed and ready to be screened. I will be cutting a trailer and uploading it on line. I have also decided to change the title of the film to Restless. It sounds more definate and less pretentious. I am glad about the final product and I can not wait to test it and see what the reaction is like.

So what next? A bit more writing, holiday and the future (whatever that may be).

Look out for the trailer soon.

Well, at least the hullabaloo of shooting has passed and frankly,I am so relieved. Now the real work starts and this will probably require every single skill and resolve I have amassed in the last couple of years.

I started the edit and a slightly rough version of some scene, some have turned out better than expected and some.....lets just say require a bit of tweaking here and there. Over all, I think the project has a lot of potential and I can't wait to see the final cut.

Hopefully I will be releasing a trailer soon, look out for some stills.

Til next time.

The low dweller

seeing the same vision

This is taken on the same day as the other still. Here we look at the samples that I have just shot of Brett and we were both impressed with the quality of the camera as well as the emotion he conveyed in that impromptu scene. One thing I have observed about him is that he is a very intuitive actor. During rehearsals I found myself not being able to articulate the direction in which a scene is supposed to go and he would come up to me and ask me if he can try something and it would work perfectly the way I saw it. I liked the fact that he took control of his performance instead of relying on my direction. There is so much I can say about Brett but thats for another time.

Brett getting in to camera: This was done after our rehearsal. This gave me an opportunity to brush up on my acting skills and it was a lot of fun playing the character that Robby Collins is playing. I decided right afterwards to take a camera and go to the park and film something with Brett. As a theatre actor, I wanted him to be familiar with the camera and to be comfortable with it at this distance. He was a natural, and the camera loved him. He has such an expressive face and every single strand of hair and line on his youthful face was visible. I guess that is the beauty of new age technology 