The famous director and film producer Neil Hollander directed the feature film "The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail" which will be premiered on 29 December in Paris.
"I didn’t want to make a trivial commercial production nor a complacent artistic product. I wanted to make a film that will be seen by millions of viewers in cinemas all over the world," says Neil Hollander about his first feature film "The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail" which will be premiered on Tuesday night in Paris. He is well-known French writer, director, film producer, university professor and author of the award-winning film "Sea Devils (1998)" and "Birds of Passage (2001) ".
The film is a 2.5 hour long video story narrated by Orson Welles. It is presented in a combination of 2D pastels and 3D animation. The music in the intro will be similar to the intro from "Lord of the Rings". The film starts on 14 January in regular distribution in French theaters, and in early March it will be shown at the most important international fair of feature films in Paris, which represents an incredibly great success for Hollander. This project took 4 years and it was captured both on paper and in film. It remains to be one of the last remainders of the bygone era.
Q: When and how did you come up with the idea to make a feature film?
Neil Hollander: I decided to make this crazy adventure four years ago, even though I knew it’s going to be an extremely demanding work that will take me years. I wanted it to be big and important film, and that’s why I chose the biggest problem of today as a theme - the relationship between parents and children. It is a taboo theme, swept under the carpet. We talk about social partnership, left and right, black and white, Muslims and Christians, but no one talks about, nor wants to agree that with children we should discuss the future. Our civilization will not collapse because of the global warming, it will collapse because of the lack of dialogue between parents and children.
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