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- What attracted you to create the movie “The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash”?
I always loved creating worlds that don’t resemble our reality. Worlds that are always a little bit off-kilter. “The Day” gave me a great opportunity to build this kind of world and so I try to insert a lot of my personal thoughts about the world I am actually living in into it.
2. What message do you hope audiences take away from “The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash”? I don’t want to dictate any particular message for the viewers. I believe that there could be a lot of different messages that come from the story of ‘The Day’. Even for me, the messages and the meaning were changing over the course of creating it, and even after. The biggest topic for me though is the ability to notice beauty in an ugly world.
3. How did you approach casting for your “The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash”?
Firstly, Dagmara and I started our journey in film as actors and as every actor knows, this job is particularly difficult because it depends mostly on the decisions of others – casting directors, directors, producers, etc. So we decided to create our own movies and write characters for ourselves. We wrote ‘The Day’ thinking about playing in it from the very beginning. Casting other characters, I think, was pretty standard – we cast people we thought were the best choice for the story.
4. What do you look for in a script when deciding whether or not to direct a film?
So far, I have directed projects that I wrote myself, so I didn’t have any problem deciding whether or not to do them. However, I am preparing myself to direct my first project that I didn’t write. I think the most important thing is to check if you personally feel the characters and their stakes. If you empathize with both protagonists and antagonists, and if the events that happen make logical sense within the given storytelling style. If you have a problem with any of the above, you may have a problem directing it.
5. Can you describe a challenge you faced while making your film and how you overcame it?
There were numerous problems my crew and I had to face during the production process. The first was our budget, which was around 150k dollars. We had to plan every detail to shoot the entire story in just 17 days across three different locations in Poland. Due to delays, we had to shoot scenes in the rain when it was only 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit and swim in the Baltic Sea when it was only 42.8 degrees Fahrenheit. But no matter the problem, with a crew of beautiful, talented, and motivated people, we were able to overcome every obstacle.
6. What was your favorite scene to film and why?
My two favorite scenes are ‘finding a girl in the trash’ and ‘fun at the beach.’ The first one I love because it’s the essence of the movie visually, and the second one is the essence philosophically.
7. What do you think sets “The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash” apart from other films in the same genre? It’s hard for me to tell as an author. I was inspired by many different works in this genre like “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”, “Matrix”, “Blade Runner”. But the final effect is the mixture of everything I saw and felt. I am too close to the subject to judge it.
8. What advice would you give to aspiring filmmaker looking to make it in the industry?
It would be the only advice I would love to hear ten years ago: be yourself in the way you work, but don’t forget that you always need a lot of other people to make a movie. You have to be sincere but at the same time flexible.
9. What is next for you, any new projects in development?
I am working on a few projects right now. One is a commercial thriller, the second is an audio story, and the third is at the stage of script-writing.”
10. How can your fans get updates about you and your projects? Your website or social media links? I am mostly using my Instagram @igloblasur, but I am also about to launch a TikTok profile with the same nickname soon, so follow me there. Thank you, if you will 🙂
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