Category: Behind the scenes

Leandro Taub’s Video Diaries in India and South Africa

We will update this video diary blog weekly. You can also access Leandro Taub’s little video diaries directly on our Woodwind Facebook page. Woodwind lead actor Taub doesn’t forget his fans, even on the road between Shimla and Manali in India. When others stop for a drink break, Taub is talking to his followers in his…

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The magic tuk-tuk of Varanasi

Transporting our gear from the airport in Delhi, India felt like we were in one of those smuggling movies in the heart of Colombia, driving in circles through several police checkpoints with unintelligible foreign language questions between tropical forest trees, dilapidated buildings, boiling heat, mobile phones passed from one fixer to another, our airplane in a hanger and…

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Crew bus on the edge of a Himalayan cliff

On the very first day of shooting Woodwind, our crew bus hung on the edge of a cliff with two wheels in the air. We had a 50-50 chance, so who’s in and who’s out? There’s a Morrissey song which goes, “And if a double-decker bus, crashes into us, to die by your side, is…

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