Yarn Documentary Club

Difficult film productions

Movie sets are high pressure environments. When things go wrong they can spiral out of control. The Director’s vision can dwarf the budget, studio executives can meddle, actors can make ridiculous demands, or the Philipine’s military can keep flying your helicopters out of shot to fight a local rebellion. Most of the productions at the heart of these documentaries were doomed but the record of making them is often so entertaining that no one can say the filmmakers' efforts were totally in vain.