Fin Pictures has started editing

After many days of logging five terabytes of visuals, sound and music, we’ve started the editing of Woodwind (2017), gradually leading up to the first cut of the much anticipated film on mythic composer, Bonifaz’s journey to India. Director Fin Manjoo had intended to take a three week break after wrapping up principal photography, but has found…

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Woodwind: The artist as an instrument

According to legend, thousands of years ago the ancients could significantly see and hear more colours and tones than we do respectively. In Woodwind, music composer Bonifaz learns the age-old secrets of the power of sound in tune with the magic of real nature and ancient languages. A mysterious source of knowledge teaches Bonifaz how…

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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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Writing Beethoven’s Creatures of Prometheus blindfolded

The story of Woodwind was born in Vienna ten years ago. I had moved back to Austria to complete the research, after a rather curious incident occurred while initially beginning (what was then a different) screenplay in South Africa. I was writing an original fiction but through the process of discovering the direction, I closed…

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Callsheet: ‘A Unique SA film’

The biggest film industry newspaper in Africa, The Callsheet published the following news update on Woodwind: Woodwind’s lead actor is Argentine actor Leandro Taub, stars as the poet Enrique Lin in Alejandro Jodorowsky’s current film Poesía sin fin (English title: Endless Poetry, 2016). Now in the upcoming South African film, Woodwind (2017), Taub plays the composer Bonifaz…

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A first look at Woodwind

Fin Pictures releases the first image of the actors directly from the film. Alina (Andrea Christina Furrer) and Bonifaz (Leandro Taub) in Woodwind. Contact Fin Pictures for a high resolution image.