A Trip To Amsterdam | Short Documentary Film

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:50:05 +0000

After a $30K film project went south, Isaiah had to make a risky decision to flip the idea upside down, and turn the train-wreck of a film into his own disaster-piece.

𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑
Welcome to my hell. This project was not originally supposed to be a documentary - it was written to be a narrative, but when it quickly became a disaster, I decided to scratch the script, and in the end the title beautifully stayed the same. The narrative film was inspired by an accidental mushroom overdose that I experience about a year ago - it resulted in an ego death and I woke up in a hospital. I went somewhere. Somewhere that I cannot explain through words of course, so I thought a film would be the only way that I could closely explain that place. The ego death gave me an unwanted nihilistic scope of the world, and ever since then, I've been trying to find my way back to faith, back to God. ---- Anyways, the original log-line for the narrative film was:

"After a broken lost nomad 'Angelo' hops on a train, in an attempt to escape his troubles and trauma, the city of Amsterdam happens to force him into facing exactly what he has been running from."

I've always associated "filmmaker" with my identity, and this failure shattered that in an instant. It was one of the biggest devastations of my life, it was an ego death in and of itself. It was the largest budget I've had by far, first time shooting in a foreign country, first time working with a large crew. After realizing failure, this project became a 6 month headache; or migraine I should say. It felt like war trying to arrange the puzzle pieces in the edit, frantically trying to make at least something out of all the random scattered spontaneous clips that we're shot in a state of pure PANIC. I cried, I didn’t sleep some nights, I lost so much money, money that I didn't have. But I'm aware that I'm young and that failures are only lessons, although I think this lesson was a bit overpriced. However, I’m beyond happy that I got to make something out of it, a piece that will last forever, a piece I can show to my grandchildren. I don't fully see how it connects now, but I think I ended up being Angelo.

Sincerely,
Isaiah "Steezy Kane" Shepard

P.S. Thank you Dan Kanes at@AtlasLensCo for believing in me.

~~★★ 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒 ★★~~
Director - Isaiah Shepard
Writers - Isaiah Shepard, Mason Cade Packer
Editor - Isaiah Shepard
Cinematography - Isaiah Shepard, Aldus Puyat
Logistical Producer - Aldus Puyat
Colourist - Isaiah Shepard
Executive Producer - Atlas Lens Co (@AtlasLensCo)
Executive Producer - Milanote
Executive Producer - Creative Juice
Executive Producer - Stephanie Nevel

~★𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐖 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒★~
Directors - Isaiah Shepard, Mason Cade Packer
Writers - Isaiah Shepard, Diego Sanchez
Director of Photography - Max Zimmer
Production Manager - Arsen Babaian
Sound Mixer - Sergiusz Sytniejewski
Associate Producer - Aldus Puyat

~★𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒★~
Isaiah Shepard, Yldau de Boer, Nicole Honnebier, Mher Brutyan, Guillermo Lansman, Martijm Scherff, Oskar Fromm, Alessio Pentrella, Sezer Özdemir, Yonis Ali, Wyatt Adonis, Willam Wilcox

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