Cellphones, Covid-19 and zoom calls: The making of ‘Cabin Fever’

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‘Cabin Fever’, written, directed and produced by Tim Greene, was filmed on cellphones during the hard lockdown earlier this year. It’s a no-budget triumph

is phoning him to say they’re going to repossess the house and he’s totally off on another tangent, about a hashtag code that he’s found. And he just lets the camera drift off him, so he’s just in the right-hand corner of the screen.

I had a vague sort of roadmap in my head. But really I was just writing on the fly. I’d write late at night, and I get up early and edit and then send it to the cast. We’d rehearse it that morning, shoot it that evening or whatever. There were no producers. There were no script editors or commissioning editors. I had to completely trust my instincts. There was no second draft…

I asked all the actors to put up an introduction video on Facebook. In the intro video by Jenna, who plays Sarah, she walked past this painting of a ballerina that she was working on. And she mentioned that “There’s this painting that I hope to finish before the end of lockdown.” And I was like, “Oh, okay. So let’s say Ndoni [Khanyile, who plays Londi]] is the gallerist and, because of Covid-19, she’s trying to do an online gallery thing with her husband.

 

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