Stills On Set Gallery

Living on set is unlike any other way of life — a world stitched together from equal parts chaos and imagination, where the extraordinary becomes routine and your colleagues become your family.

Whether I'm working as a script supervisor, in the director's chair, or performing as an actor, the truth is the same: crew and cast are what make the experience worthwhile. By the end of the production, these complete strangers have all of a sudden become your family members: you have toiled long days together, shared pranks and inside jokes, helped each other create solutions, and been there for each other amidst it all.

Make no mistake: film sets can be intensely stressful, especially on low-budget fast-paced TV productions shooting up to 15–20 pages a day — which often means each shot gets two takes - three or four if you’re lucky. Everyone must be constantly on their best game, as there is no room for errors. You don’t want to be the one called on for retaking the shot. As a script supervisor, this means paying intense focus to every single movement, object, and moment in every single take in order for it to be useful for the final version. Not everyone can have the stamina to carry out such a long days multi-tasking and focus for such long hours. Yet, I love every single moment.

Life of a filmmaker is a contradiction I've learned to love: exhausting but energizing, chaotic but choreographed, artificial but honest. You live half in reality and half in imagination — and somewhere in that blur, you experience the most beautiful feeling of fulfilment.