A cheating husband goes missing, and then haunts his wife.

I'm making a short film, The Night Dancer, and yesterday we had our first day of rehearsal. It's a revenge fantasy, but instead of kung-fu or guns, dance is used as a magical power. This is based on the mythology of Luo people, based in Northern Uganda. I'm crowdfunding the production of this film and need your support. There are more details in this link https://www.dilmandila.com/crowdfund-for-the-night-dancer-short-film

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While I was pitching, I kept getting a no because the potential producer, or co-producer, of moneybag thought I couldn't pull off the VFX required to make the film believable, so I made this as proof of concept. This is for the feature film, Big Tree, which you can see more details here www.dilstories.com/big-tree

I thought I'd share with you a snippet of behind the scenes of a set for my near-future short film, about a bio-technologist researching a cure for sickle cells, but inadvertently creates a monster. so I had to build for her a laboratory. It was a bit of a nightmare given the limited resources I work in. For a moment I considered shooting her on a green screen, but gave up on the idea almost immediately and focused on the old school ways of doing things. I'd built a fairly decent set for my last feature film, Her Broken Shadow, so I thought I'd use that experience to create this lab. I got everyday home appliances, microwaves, water dispensers, the like, that were not working of course, and I tore them up and used their bodies to create something that looks like something that would be in a laboratory. A biosafety cabinet. We bought a lot of real props, pipettes, tubes, PCR racks (we got those used from a real lab) but this was the hardest thing to pull off and I'm not yet sure if it's convincing. I might have to add a bit of something in post to make it more machine-like, but here it is. Enjoy the video!

A test of a car rig