Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Interview with Co-Producer Neil Kopp
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13 August, 2008. One of the producers of the film, 28-year old Neil Kopp, winner of the Independent Spirit Producers Award (2008) for Old Joy and Paranoid Park, comments on the film.
JD: Could you speak a little about the film stock and its subsequent, post-production process?
NK: It was shot on Kodak Super 16mm film. Once we had a completed edit, we did a digital intermediate (DI) which means we scanned the negative and did our color correction and titles in a digital world. Once film is finished we filmed out to 35mm film which is our release and projection format.
JD: Was it shot entirely in Portland, Oregon?
NK: It was all shot in Oregon, primarily in North Portland with a few days in Astoria.
JD: How did you end up meeting and working with Kelly Reichardt?
NK: In March 2005, I received a phone call from her out of the blue. We had a mutual contact in the industry, Pete Sillen, the cinematographer for what was to be Old Joy. After we spoke, she came out to Oregon to do some scouting and we put the film [Old Joy] together.
JD: Describe how you see the current struggle for films such as Wendy and Lucy (indie, lo-fi, small budget, etc.). Or perhaps you see these types of films as a rising trend, thus making them easier to produce, finance and find an audience?
NK: I’m not someone who exhaustively studies market trends. I tend to put more time into considering whether the story feels like a good one and if it's produce-able. What's going on in the market, and more specifically with the economics of any particular project, will usually dictate how the image is captured and how the film is marketed. People's appetite for good stories, in my humble opinion, does not seem to be dwarfing technological advances.
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