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had shown up asking for €200k for us to shoot in this village,” Greenop says. “Being a low-budget film, we of course didn’t have that kind of money to pay them off, so I said we should just find another place to shoot. Then, two men in suits approached us and began staring at Tamer. Pointing at him, they asked: ‘You are the playboy?’ Tamer looked at me and then it clicked. They were referring to his iconic role in the movie The Business . Tamer replied, ‘Yeah that’s me.’ All of a sudden the two men were all smiles and shook everyone’s hands. ‘Film as much as you want,’ they said. We even put their wives in the movie.” TECH TALK With one of the industry’s most esteemed cinematographers on the team, Greenop expected Milsome to insist on shooting on 35mm. “From the start, I made it clear that we are very independent, with a budget of under £500,000, and that we certainly can’t afford it,” insists the director. “He said: ‘That’s no problem, I get great deals at Provision and they all know me down there.’ I sent him a lot of references and movies that I loved – old horrors, as

THE COOKE LOOK An Arri Alexa was selected for the film, along with a set of Cooke S4/i Prime lenses

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