Eighteen days without a single usable shot
The herd moved at night for almost three weeks. What that does to a crew, a budget, and a schedule — and why we did not…
Our guide keeps his family records in a school exercise book. The first freeze date is written down for every year since 1974, and the trend in it is not subtle.
This year it arrived later than any of them. We moved camp twice, lost eleven shooting days, and spent most of a fortnight listening to a surface that would not settle.
That waiting is the episode. There was no version of this film that could honestly have been about anything else.
