Documentary
"King of The Butterflies" Nominated For Best Nordic Documentary
Our documentary King of the Butterflies has been nominated for best documentary competition at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival.
Olaf de Fleur
Creative unlocker. At your disposal. I direct and write films. Two-decade experience. Fifteen films. Sold high concepts. Corporate consultant.
Writing Blog
Novel Work This Summer; A Brief Check-in
Dear students, I hope you're having a good summer. This summer, I decided to take a little break from teaching and have been working on a novel that I've been breadcrumbing, inch by inch, over the last few years. I'd been writing a chapter
Writing
On Writing And Being A Bee
If you sting, you die. If you make honey, you nurture. That is if you're a bee. I sometimes think about being a beekeeper and find it a helpful metaphor for writing. I have to go slow not to get stung by the inner critic.
Film Class
New Film Class: From Idea to Video
In "Indie Filmmaking: Transform Your Idea Into Video" - You will learn how to develop, write, produce, film and edit a short video out of your original idea.
Olaf's Blog
A Day of Ghosts
I'm not sure why I'm writing this. I don't need to know actually. But my hands are writing. They're not alone. With them are my past, present and forecasted future. Past rides up front, to 18th September 1999. I wasn't
Film Edit
Edit Sprint | Final Cut Pro X
This is a real-time edit training lesson in Final Cut Pro X. The method that I use is what I call Edit Sprint.
Writing Blog
Not Being Able To Write a Book
I have been working on 'this book' for over five years, and I have found myself stuck in a detrimental loop.
Free Film
Dear Film Students, the next Free Film Seminar will take place on the 22nd of October. The Seminar is free and open for all subscribers (free and paid) of this website. To register, please find the Zoom link below. In this seminar, I will cover a range of Indie filmmaking
Video Lesson
Using Metaphors to Extract Ideas
Using Metaphors is a powerful way to extract your ideas.
Procrastination
Overwhelm: The Land of Indecision
"I don't like living here, even though everyone is very polite and nice, nothing happens in this village of no decisions."
Video Lesson
A Quick Edit Lesson
In this post, I'm sharing a quick video on an piece of edit I did for a documentary I'm working on. Here, I use from 'the inside out' technique. I start close, and gradually...
Skillshare
Access To My Skillshare Classes
As a paid member of my website here below you can find free links to my film classes on Skillshare.
Writing Tools
SPLITTING THE ATOM: Dicipline Your Creative Senses
It is unnecessary to fall prey to this predictable dilemma. Suddenly feeling like you cannot create, has nothing to do with your talent or your ability, it is a foreseeable sequencing of irrational, and impersonal thoughts welded together by unearned authority over your mood and talent.
The Creative Path
Why Don't You Write A Play?
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. He wrote one of my favorite poems about vanity.
The Creative Path
The Courtroom of Your Creativity
When we want to produce a creative piece of art, a story, a film, it's easy to talk ourselves out of it.
Traveling Soul
Crocodiles in India
The ground inside the home was made out of uneven stacks of mud. The family that had invited me in didn’t have anything but offered me what they had. The offering was some kind of food, but it was impossible to know what it was made out of.