{"id":8434,"date":"2020-03-28T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T01:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8434"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:08:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:08:21","slug":"i-always-tries-to-analyse-what-i-didnt-like-about-the-latest-film-a-made-svend-colding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/?p=8434","title":{"rendered":"“I always try to analyse what I didn\u2019t like about the latest film I made”- Svend Colding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Exvlusive Interview with Svend Colding – Filmmaker<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Danish filmmaker Svend Colding started his directing career at New York Film Academy in 2011. Before that he hadn\u2019t touched a camera. So it was a big gamle to go to the Big Apple, but after the first class of writing, with writing teacher Randall Dottin, he was convinced that this was what he should do. In 2013 he started working in the danish film industry after going back to Denmark.  He worked at several danish feature films and tv series, first as a PA, later as a 2nd AC and then as a 2nd Assistant Director. While working on the big productions he also managed to write and direct his own short films and music videos. In 2018, one of his short films got into 18Frames, a film school run by the students. Svend is shooting his thesis film this spring and graduating in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> How long have you been making films and videos?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started in 2011 attending New York Film Academy\u2019s 1-year program of Filmmaking. Before that I didn\u2019t think that\nmaking films was an option. I\u2019m from Aarhus in Denmark, where there isn\u2019t many\noptions for young people with dreams of making films. Studying in New York was\ntherefore the opportunity I needed to get me going. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> What film was your\ndirectorial debut? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did a lot of small\nprojects at NYFA, but nothing that I would call my debut. So it wasn\u2019t before I\nmoved to danish capital Copenhagen, where I was able to make my first real\nshort. I wrote a 10 pages script and showed it to my friend and colleague,\nactor Alexander Behrang Kesthkar. My plan was for him to star in it, but he\ndidn\u2019t see himself as the lead. He rather wanted to help producing the film and\nplay a supporting role. I learned a lot from his unselfish choices and I couldn\u2019t\nhave done the film without him. The name of the film is \u201c+1\u201d. It was shot in\n2014 and finished in 2015.   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> What is your recent\nfilm about? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSlanging\u201d is about a\ncoke dealer, who\u2019s trying to get out of the drug business. He needs to do some\nunfinished business before he\u2019s able to start a new life without his criminal\nways of living. For me it\u2019s a movie\nabout wanting to change and doing wrong for all the right reasons. It was an interesting\ntask to make a criminal character likable, without a \u201csave the cat\u201d moment or\nsomething alike. I wanted the audience to understand this man, despite the job\nthat he\u2019s doing.   <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> How did you go about\ncasting for the film?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been knowing\nBesir Zeciri for a long time and wanting to work with him for almost as long. So it didn\u2019t take a\nlot of drafts of the script, before I started seeing him as the lead. Luckily\nhe liked the story and had the time to join the project. I always priorities\nauthentic performances. Actors that doesn\u2019t have to do that much to be\ninteresting is my preferred ones. This is one of the reasons for my likings of\nBesir, but also for the rest of the cast in the movie. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> What was the most\nimportant lesson you had to learn that has had a positive effect on your film?\nHow did that lesson happen?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can make a great\nscene, but sometimes you have to let it go, if it affects the flow of the story\nin a negative way. The good old \u201ccut your darlings\u201d applied in this film. Me\nand my editor, Patrick Lund Larsen, made a scene with a lot of tension build in\nit. We both loved it, but for some reasons it made the story drag a bit. It\u2019s\nalways a hard choice to leave scenes out or to shorten them since so many\npeople have been working so hard to shoot it. But in the end you have to do\nwhat\u2019s best for the story. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> Tell<\/strong> us a bit about the\nother films you\u2019ve made and your other projects.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My films doesn\u2019t look\nlike each other. I like to play with different genres and different styles. My first film was a\nthriller\/chrime movie, the next one was a kids movie, then a drama and now back\nto the thriller\/chrime genre. For me it\u2019s important\nto play around and being able to test out different techniques of story\ntelling. But even so I always\nhope to put in something that tells you, that it\u2019s a film made by me – not sure\nif it\u2019s working though! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> What role have film\nfestivals played in your life so far?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had a lot of great experiences with film festivals so far. From Giffoni Festival, a big Italian children\u2019s film festival, where my film, \u201cReal Strength\u201d won an award to a small festival in Coventry, England where me and my friend stayed at the festival manager\u2019s house. Even though I\u2019m not much of a networking type of person, I still like to meet fellow filmmakers and party with them. It\u2019s also a source for great inspiration to see films from all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> Is it harder to get started or to\nkeep going? What was the particular thing that you had to conquer to do either?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s always hardest to start. You have to earn the trust of the crew and cast. Once you showed that you know what you\u2019re doing it gets easier to come through with your visions. I\u2019m always trying to surround myself with people I admire and whom I\u2019m also able to have fun with. It\u2019s hard to stay creative if you\u2019re not enjoying the process – from script, to shooting and in editing. I always try to analyse what I didn\u2019t like about the latest film I made. That goes for both the process of making it and the end result. So when I start on something new, there\u2019s definitely things and methods I want to use again, but there\u2019s also a lot of stuff that I\u2019m not gonna touch. But in the end it\u2019s not hard to keep going as long as you stay hungry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Poster Photo By Lukas Daugbjerg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> How has your style evolved?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m putting more and\nmore attention on characters and their developing throughout the movie. That means that for\nmy more recent films I\u2019m trying to let everything start with the characters. Does this camera\nangle tell us something about the character\u2019s state of mind? No? Well, then we\nhave to do something else. I\u2019m also getting more\naware of my cinematic preferences according to light and camera work. Mostly I like it to\nfeel more raw and authentic than staged and classic. I\u2019ve also more concerned\nabout flow and tempo in scenes. I\u2019ve been making too many scenes, where you\nhave to chop them into pieces before getting something that felt right. If your\nable to see the perfect flow on set, you\u2019ll probably also see it in editing. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> What has been your\npersonal key to success? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success is a funny word, since I doesn\u2019t see myself as a filmmaker with a lot of success. But I like to listen. Shut up and listen. I\u2019ve always learned a lot more from listening than talking. Another thing is trust. You have to find crew and cast that you trust, because you cannot make your stupid little movie all by yourself. People are much more creative if you let them do what they signed up to do and a lot of times you\u2019ll see solutions that you could never come up with yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> What are\nyou thinking about doing next?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m about to shoot my thesis from the alternative film school, 18Frames. We\u2019re in the middle of script writing and planning to shoot in May or June. Hopefully it will premiere in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

NY Glam:<\/strong> Where does your\nstudio want to go from here?  <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\nnot attached to any studios, but I have a couple of producers that I love\nworking with. Hopefully\nI\u2019ll get to work with them again soon. A have a dream and a hope to make my\nfirst feature film in the next couple of years, even though the route is hard and\nrocky. I\nalso have a short length tv-series in mind, that I want to do as well. It\u2019s\njust really hard to get these projects through as a newcomer in Denmark. There\nis a lot of talent and a lot of fighting for the money – that\u2019s probably just\nthe business anywhere. But\nmaybe somebody is willing to read my scripts and give me the chance – I\u2019ll be\nready!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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