LIFT is raw and unpredictable. It screams to find itself in this world, like a newborn child whose mother's womb can no longer supply. It comes out of its own will to survive and live; its matter is uncontrollable, a creation of its self, it must be and it has to reach.

I wrote LIFT in a week and it was one of those scripts that screamed to come out of me. Nothing was forced and thought of, it simply wrote itself onto the script. In the beginning we tried to raise money, but all in vein and I've abandoned the project for a year.

Then Indie Activity published an article about me (and I still don't know how they found me) and about the process of filmmaking and what it takes and by answering their questions I answered my own doubts and insecurities and then: Alas! I knew how to do it!

I didn't relish in difficulties of making a feature film at all and started researching and building my own gear. I guess my Mechanical Engineering degree came at a use after all! haha

A friend of mine consulted me on a couple of sound issues. We tested it and then rigged the interior of my daughter's car with lapel mics - all four of them and a zoom H4N as a back up.

Then I used my iPad as a monitor and a Tether Tools WiFi element to connect and control my Nikon D810 which was mounted on the hood of the car and secured by strap belts. Oi!

Here's the fun part! I was in the trunk of the car the whole time! Once the actors were inside, I said, "action!" and we drove around Los Angeles as a little production house on the wheels and made LIFT!