Still in Suriname. Customs strikes in the port, heavy rains, too many factors causing delay in the shoot of the corporate films. Catching up in editing now.Also doing a lot of research for the fiction I’m writing. Had a good meeting with the head of the A-Team (Arrest team), a special police force, equivalent to the SWAT. Difference being they have to operate in areas as diverse as urban and jungle, so they’re on the level of commandos with the difference being their objectives. They’re trained by US Rangers and other special units from different countries and it’s interesting to get an insight into the methodology and experience. The Head, Mr. S. is a seasoned strategist with decades of experience and still spearheads missions in the field. Will be interesting to join one of their training sessions next week. Also more meetings with police detectives and commanders planned to research certain procedures and murder cases. Fact and fiction merge, femme fatales stretching killer nails flashing jade smiles, cold beers and hot humid nights, a different time warp.

There’s so much other stuff going on that I hardly get 5-6 hours sleep a day or get time to sit behind the PC, except for emails or editing. Getting allergic to plastic keyboards or anything removed from the raw physical reality I prefer. Two weeks ago shot a music video for Laco featuring K-Liber, with great hit potential. Laco is a young and driven MC with plenty of charisma and energy. Will be broad casted mainly in The Netherlands and locally. As I don’t have my own equipment here, a young production company was hired, Alpha Pictures, all dressed in black with yellow prints, well organised and they even constructed their own jib which looks factory made. Another instance of improvisation in the tropics and interesting to see that one of the key members is a young military officer. So again the discipline and organisation I prefer to bring to film making came into play.

All in all it will be strange to go back to Europe next week. Another rhythm there, more bureaucracy, clinical infrastructure and different kinds of projects. Inhuman Remains, a zombie film written by David Hughes is in development at the moment and Londinium Fields, a sci-fi script I’m still working on are some of them. But the economic crisis doesn’t make funding any easier. We’ll see, in the Caribbean you learn to improvise, or as they say in Napoli: L’arte di Arrangerse. Make due with what you got.

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