The only way to calm the worry was to plan. So I started to work in television and commercials, all with real budgets and real crews and real actors and oh my fucking god. That I’d be stranded on a professional set, waiting for an instinct that I didn’t possess to kick in.
Worry that those ideas which came so easily would dry up, that they were a fluke the first time around. Then came some success and, along with it, the worry. Rob Savage (right), with collaborator Alex Smith, during the making of his debut feature, Strings.īack then, I had everything to prove and nothing to lose, so the ideas flowed freely.
Back then, shooting with my friends on Mini-DV with no budget and no expectations, it felt like the movie was revealing itself in real time. I worry that I’ve lost the spontaneity and persistent creativity I felt when I started out making films. It dulls the fear, but I worry about what I’m missing by narrowing my focus so acutely.
That’s how I’ve made films for the past decade, rendering every frame of the movie in my head before I even step on set. He has directed episodes of Jez Butterworth’s Britannia and the pilot of AMC/Amazon’s Soulmates, and is developing a number of TV shows, including Rawblood, a horror series starring and produced by Natalie Dormer, and a small-screen adaptation of Dawn of the Deaf. Rob’s 2017 film, D awn of the D eaf, played at over 100 film festivals worldwide, including Sundance and Sitges, where it won the Melies d’Argent for Best Short. Rob is a Sundance and Berlinale alumnus, has won a number of awards for his short films at festivals including the London Short Film Festival, Raindance and Sitges, and was the recipient of the BFI Future Film Award in 2011. and won Rob the Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards for the film, the youngest director ever to win a BIFA. Rob wrote, directed, shot, co-produced and edited micro-budget feature film S trings at age 17, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival. Rob Savage’s latest film, the Zoom horror film Host, is now streaming on Shudder.
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