With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting. See image Bruce Beresford
Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico. See image Bruce Beresford
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. See image Bruce Beresford
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films. See image Bruce Beresford