For the last few years, I have worked with an Australian film company, Running Cloud Films, collaborating with the talented Director Nays Baghai. The result is a beautiful feature documentary following my life. The film Diving Into The Darkness is currently making its way through the “Festival Circuit,” where featured screenings and a few awards will help in a sale for global distribution that is expected in Q4 this year.
Pre-production activities like budgeting, writing, reviewing archives and sourcing lost materials are just the start. Production shooting took us to several countries while we filmed new material and re-creations of critical events. The editing process thrust Nays Baghai into his cave of an edit suite for 15 months to delicately weave together sequences with a majestic original score and brilliant animations and graphics. I’m eager to share this film with you soon, but in the interim, I thought it would be fun to share some behind-the-scenes materials so you can see how this all comes together.
In this video sequence, we are filming in a cave in New Zealand. Our original plans to shoot in the Poor Knights Islands were in jeopardy due to a record-breaking typhoon that left us hunting for options. We opted to use our most nimble camera set ups as we worked our way through this fascinating cave that shows off a remarkable ceiling of glow worms that look like a constellation.